Two volumes:

1. Die Überlieferung des Roman de Renart und die Handschrift O (The tradition of the Roman de Renart and the manuscript O)
2. Der Reinhart Fuchs und seine franzosische Quelle (Reinhart Fuchs and the French source)

[Volume 1] The following work is a supplement to the publications by Prof. Dr. E. Martin concerning the textual criticism of the Roman de Renart. It was prompted by the collation of the manuscript O [Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 12583], which was carried out on Martin's behalf and which the editor of the Roman de Renart only became aware of after his work had been completed (see Le Roman de Renart, Vol. III p. VII and Observations sur le Roman de Renart p. 7). With the publication of this collation, I was also given the task of assigning the manuscript its place in the genealogy of the Renart manuscripts, a task whose solution was then followed by research into the other manuscripts. Prof. Martin has expressed his interest in my research in a particularly admirable way by making his entire handwritten notes available to me. - [Author]

[Volume 2] With the publication of Ernst Martin's Observations on the Roman de Renart (1887), the question of the relationship between the Old French Roman de Renart and the Old High German Reinhart Fuchs and the position of these two works in the development of German poetry entered a new stage. Until then, a generally accepted view prevailed on this question: that Reinhart Fuchs [of] Heinrich de Glîchezâre, with its short, simple, and unpretentious narrative style, represented an earlier stage of development in German poetry than the much more extensive and elaborate sections of the French collection; that the German poem, whose French origin is undoubted, is the translation of a lost French poem, in which the same brevity and simplicity the representational style prevailed, as it is characteristic of Reinhart Fuchs. This view is based on the general observation that the simplicity and artistic quality of the representation is a hallmark of the ancient history of a culture. - [Author]

Language: German