Ulrich Boner

Sheet from “The Gemstone” (1461). Facsimile 1840

Ulrich Boner was a Dominican in Bern and author of the collection of fables "The Gemstone". Boner's life dates are not ascertainable, he is documented between 1324 and 1349; 1280 is often given as the year of birth. In the collection "Der Edelstein", which he dedicated to the Bernese patrician Johann von Ringgenberg , he told a hundred fables ( Bispel ) in old Swiss dialect from Latin sources ( Avianus , Phaedrus and Anonymus von Nevelet ) and some secondary sources. A copy, with simple pen drawings and from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century, is in the collective manuscript Cod. Sang. 643 of the St. Gallen Abbey Library . The oldest surviving printed copy of the work from 1461 is kept in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . It was produced in Albrecht Pfister's printing works in Bamberg and is the first book in German to be printed with movable type, and also the first known printed work illustrated with woodcuts.

expenditure

• Once a monkey came gerant. Do he vil good nuts vant. He would have liked to eat it. Bamberg (1461) digitized version ( GW 04839 )
• Composite manuscript Cod. Sang. 643 with a copy of the collection of fables “Der Edelstein”, digitized on e-codices
• "The precious stone" (1462) digitized version of the Berlin State Library ( title data , GW 04840 )
• George Friedrich Benecke: The precious stone made by Bonerius. Manuscripts also corrected and provided with a dictionary , Berlin 1816 ( digitized version )
• Ulrich Boner: The precious stone , ed. by Franz Pfeiffer , Leipzig 1844 ( digitized version )

literature

• André Schnyder: Boner, Ulrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Karl Bartsch :  Boner, Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 121 f.
• Walther Mitzka :  Boner, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 443 ( digitized version ).
• Felix Balsiger: Boner's language and the Bernese dialect. Diss. Univ. Bern 1904. Printed in: Zeitschrift für Hochdeutsche Mundarten 5 (1904), pp. 37–99.

Web links

Wikisource: Ulrich Boner  - Sources and full texts

• Publications by and about Ulrich Boner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Ulrich Boner in the catalog of the German National Library