Lot 815
Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen, Über die Kunst mit Vögeln zu jagen. 2 Vol. Frankfurt 1964.
Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot:
815
Category:
Book studies and writing, arts and decorative arts
Artist:
Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen
Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen: Über die Kunst mit Vögeln zu jagen. Unter Mitarbeit von Dagmar Odenthal übertragen und herausgegeben von Carl Arnold Willemsen. 2 Vol. Frankfurt a. M.: Insel 1964. 27,6 x 18,5 cm. With 20 plates based on miniatures from manuscript MS. fr. 12400 of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. 278 pp., 1 leaf; 294 pp., 1 leaf. Original half-parchment binding (Willy Pingel, Heidelberg) with a blind-stamped cover vignette and title on the spine, in a cardboard slipcase.
(The corners and edges of the slipcases are scuffed; one edge is torn; they are discolored or have light-colored edges. One slipcase has water stains on the spine.)
One of 850 copies (total 900). - Sarkowski 498. - First German translation of Frederick II’s book on falconry. “It remains a shame that, while there are editors and publishers in Germany for ancient Tibetan wedding chants and small sculptures from Tierra del Fuego, there are none for this work—which is of immense interest both in terms of subject matter and intellectual history—by the monarch who ultimately became the most significant figure of the German Middle Ages,” lamented Ernst Kantorowicz, biographer of the Hohenstaufen emperor, as he pointed out the few writings that had recognized Frederick II’s ornithological work prior to 1930. In 1942, the Latin text was published in its entirety for the first time in two volumes, also edited by Carl Arnold Willemsen and published by Insel-Verlag; twenty years later, a German-language edition enriched with color reproductions from an illuminated French manuscript of the work was published—without the commentary volume that appeared in 1970.
(The corners and edges of the slipcases are scuffed; one edge is torn; they are discolored or have light-colored edges. One slipcase has water stains on the spine.)
One of 850 copies (total 900). - Sarkowski 498. - First German translation of Frederick II’s book on falconry. “It remains a shame that, while there are editors and publishers in Germany for ancient Tibetan wedding chants and small sculptures from Tierra del Fuego, there are none for this work—which is of immense interest both in terms of subject matter and intellectual history—by the monarch who ultimately became the most significant figure of the German Middle Ages,” lamented Ernst Kantorowicz, biographer of the Hohenstaufen emperor, as he pointed out the few writings that had recognized Frederick II’s ornithological work prior to 1930. In 1942, the Latin text was published in its entirety for the first time in two volumes, also edited by Carl Arnold Willemsen and published by Insel-Verlag; twenty years later, a German-language edition enriched with color reproductions from an illuminated French manuscript of the work was published—without the commentary volume that appeared in 1970.