Dyalogus Creaturarum:

RENAISSANCE WOODCUTS & FABLES


A little about the original editions:

Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus

Dyalogus Creaturarum

moralizatus

               

There are more than 120 dialogues, each containing three or four stories on the same theme - one of the traditional kind given here, one from the Christian Bible, one or more from Classical antiquity...

You can read a little more on the Web
about the copies of the
Dialogus in Sweden and in Holland
- from the first of which this full-page reproduction comes:


- click for a closer view -
A beautiful reproduction of the Stockholm 1483 edition was published
to mark the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first book in Sweden
by Michaelisgillet and Gidlunds Bokförlag, Stockholm, 1983

ISBN 91-7021-456-5

Eight Stories:

About Laurus, the Sea-Eagle
About the Pheasant and the Peacock
About the Owl who wanted to rule over the Birds
About the Countryman and the Bees
About the Lion who built a Priory
About the Donkey-Centaur who built a Palace
About the Monkey who wrote Books
About the Wolf and the Donkey

Introduction

Original editions

Johan Snell's printing


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