The Latin text of Reynardus Vulpes is only known from this book printed by Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt in 1473-1474. It was translated from the Dutch Van den vos Reynaerde by Balduinus Iuvenis (Boudewijn de Jonghe) around 1278 from an unidentified manuscript. There are only two known copies of the book; one was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century in the Athenaeum Library, Deventer, Netherlands (shelfmark 111 C 8 KL); the other, an identical copy, was found in 1967 in Mainz (Martinus-Bibliothek, Hs 165).

The Reynardus Vulpes text begins Incipit Reynardus vulpes feliciter. There are 1851 lines of Latin verse.

In the Athenaeum Library copy of the book, the Reynardus Vulpes is bound with four other printed works. The texts are:

1. Dialogus Creaturarum. Gouda, Geraert Leeu, 1481
2. Vita et Fabulae Latine van Aesopus. [Straatsburg : Henricus Knoblochtzer, ca. 1481]
3. Speculum Stultorum. [Utrecht, Nicolaus Ketelaer en Gerardus de Leempt, 1474]
4. Reynardus vulpes. [Utrecht, Nicolaus Ketelaer en Gerardus de Leempt, 1474]
5. Historia destructionis Troiae. Deventer, Richardus Pafraet, [1480-1485]

In the Martinus-Bibliothek copy, the Reynardus Vulpes is bound with a manuscript and two other printed works. The Reynardus Vulpes is on page 479-539.

1. A Psalter, works by Seneca, a Chrysostom homily [Manuscript, ca. 1581]
2. Bernardus Claraevallensis: De consideratione ad Eugenium papam [Printed, 1474]
3. Works by Pseudo-Gregorius [Printed, 1474]
4. Reynardus vulpes [Printed, 1473]

Language: Latin

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