Ecbasis captivi
Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam ( The Flight of a Prisoner, in a figurative way of speaking ), usually short Ecbasis captivi , is an important Latin poem, probably from the middle of the 11th century , which is attributed to monastery literature. Approaches to early dating put the drafting in the 10th century.
In the framework of the animal poetry, which consists of 1170 hexameters , the escape and happy return of a calf is reported, while the story of the fox, known from Aesop , who recommends the healing of lions with the fur of the wolf, is the actual story. The satirical story contains an abundance of contemporary historical allusions and quotations from ancient authors and represents the oldest animal poetry in German literary history. Summary by Udo Kindermann 1979.
Two manuscripts of the work were found by Jakob Grimm in Brussels and published in 1838.
Text output
- Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam. Edited by Karl Strecker . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1935, reprint 1956.
- Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam. - The escape of a prisoner (tropologically). Text and translation. With an introduction and explanations ed. by Winfried Trillitzsch . Historically explained by Siegfried Hoyer . BG Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig undated
Web links
- Text in the Bibliotheca Augustana
- Ernst Voigt (Ed.): Ecbasis Captivi, the oldest animal pos of the Middle Ages ( German ). KJ Trübner, 1875 (accessed January 19, 2010).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Udo Kindermann: Ecbasis captivi. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon, Vol. 2, Berlin 1979, Col. 315–321.