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Article: Konrad von Megenberg, `Das Buch der Natur: Untersuchungen zu seiner Text- und Uberlieferungsgeschichte.(Review)
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- March 22, 2000
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Gerold Hayer, Konrad von Megenberg, `Das Buch der Natur: Untersuchungen zu seiner Text-und Uberlieferungsgeschichte, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 110 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1998). viii + 533 pp.; 16 plates. ISBN 3-484-89110-6. DM 156.00.
No less than four medieval German translations have survived of the Latin nature encyclopedia De natura return by Thomas of Cantimpre (c.1200-70). Of these, the version completed around 1350 by the Sorbonne professor, Vienna schoolmaster, and Regensburg canon Konrad von Megenberg was much the most popular in the later Middle Ages. Konrad's Buch der Natur, which is based on a ...