“With this Reynard the Fox medieval animal fiction is introduced to Denmark. The origin poem goes back to the 12th century in France. In the 13th century the fox becomes the cunning hero in the edition by Fleming, Willem. The poem was printed 1498 in Low German in Lübeck, and in 1539 and 1549 in Rostock by Ludwig Dietz. The 1539 Rostock edition, of which incidentally only one copy is preserved in the Staatsbibliothek, Hamburg, is the one used in the translation by Herman Veigere. The book is dated September 20, 1554, and dedicated to King Christian III. Veigere's translation is certainly not inferior to the original.” Thesaurus #282; LN #1406.

Provenance: Flemming Erik Pedersen (1931–2020).