(Roman de Renart) - Speculum vitae aulicae : de admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes [...]. Francof. ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main], [impressum per Nicolaum Bassaeum, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabend], 1574. In-12° : [20]-504 (of 506) pp....
Estimation :
150 / 200
Adjudication :
240 €
Description
(pp. 15-18, 79-84, 103-106, 205-214, 505-506 and last 20 pp. missing, errors in pagination, some lvs shortly cut, small drawing with pen on title-page). Contemporary Dutch binding : vellum, flat spine with ink title (traces of ties, some stains, rebound in original binding and cover lvs renewed). First edition of the translation by the German humanistic poet Hartmann Schopper (1542-after 1595), illustrated with 46 (of 52) little woodcuts throughout the text engraved by Jost Amman (mostly monogrammed) from Virgil Solis' designs. Based on "Reinke de Vos", the famous late Middle Low German poem which first appeared at Lübeck in 1498, which was itself based on the enlarged version by Van Alchmer (Antwerp, 1487) going back to the old Flemish poem of the 13th Century. # Bibliotheca Reinardiana I-52/53; # Goossens, Jan.- Reynke, Reynaert und das Europ^ische Tierepos : gesammelte Aufs^tze. Münster, 1998, p. 265, note 37; # Bruel, Karl.- The Cambridge Reinaert fragments. Cambridge, University Press, 1927, pp. xv- xvi, xxii; # Machiels S-203; # Brunet IV-1222 (under Renard); # not in Adams nor in Matagne. ▲ Provenance : J.J. Olinger (ex-libris). ^ Édition originale de la traduction du poète humaniste allemand Schopper basée sur une éd. allemande de 1498 inspirée par une éd. anversois de 1487. Ill. de 46 (sur 52) petits bois par Jost Amman d'après Virgil Solis. Plein vélin de l'ép. (qqs pp. manquent, pet. défauts, rel. lég. tachetée).
