An edition of the Ysengrimus, a precursor to the Reynard the Fox cycle. With descriptions of the manuscripts.

It was during the Christmas holidays of 1874 when, after completing my Ecbasis, I began the work whose first result is available in the Smaller Latin Monuments, the final fruit of which is hereby presented to the public in Ysengrimus. During the many years of research, which I conducted with unconditional devotion and self-sacrificing tenacity, I was aware that I was not, as in my earlier editions, correcting a student's exercise or picking up individual fragments from the rich table of animal antics, but that I was editing the comprehensive, systematically laid out, witty and artfully executed work of one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, a work that requires varied and penetrating research as much as it is worthy of being read and enjoyed by the widest possible circles. In this sense, my efforts have been directed at exploring Ysengrimus in all directions and communicating the results of these studies to the broad sections of all Latin-knowing friends of literature and science. - [Author]

Language: German