Kalilah und Dimnah: Orientalische Fabeln
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1974
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There are several unusual things about this lovely book. It is boxed, and comes with a place-marking ribbon. While published by a Frankfurt firm, it is printed -- very nicely -- in the German Democratic Republic. I checked and found that Insel Verlag had two parts, in Leipzig and Frankfurt, during the time of Germany's being split. A third unusual feature of this book lies in the ten full-page reproductions of the old oriental colored miniatures. They include, for example, Dablaschlim visiting Pidpai (16); the unfaithful woman with her lover in the presence of the unseen guest (72); the wolf, crow, and hyena devouring the camel (104); TT (112); and Dimnah and Schanzabah with the lion (120). Apparently two of the ten illustrations are on the box. A final surprising characteristic of this version of Kalilah and Dimna is that the stories are divided into only two cycles, a beginning cycle around Bidpai and then a long cycle about hypocritical betrayers, followed by Lehrreichen Unterweisungen containing some twenty-eight fables. There is a T of C after Hans-Jürgen Jordan's Nachwort.
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Insel Verlag
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10255 (Access ID)