Sebastian Brant: Fabeln. Carminum et fabularum additiones Sebastiani Brant-Sebastian Brants ErgŠnzungen zur Aesop-Ausgabe von 1501. Herausgegeben und Ÿberstzt von Bernd Schneider. Arbeiten und Editionen zur Mittleren Deutschen Literatur, n.F. 4. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1999. Pp. 454. DM 345.

The appearance in the 1990s of important studies by Adalbert Elschenbroich and, particularly, Gerd Dicke once again directed scholarly attention to the fable tradition of the early sixteenth century in Germany; real progress in the years since, however, has been stymied by the fact that not a few of the collections discussed in those surveys have been practically unavailable to the researcher. Among the most interesting such works is a compilation of 140 fables, riddles, and anecdotes published by Sebastian Brant as a supplement to his 1501 reprint of Steinhšwel's Latin Aesop. Now available in a critical edition and translation prepared by Bernd Schneider, these additional texts will be warmly welcomed by scholars of the fable and of neo-Latin literature in general.

A. E. Wright
Fordham University