228 SMYTH — PEKICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



Ziiokunft), in which there is no reference to the house upon the 

 Graben. 



Two German prose translations of the Latin text of the Historia 

 were published in 1873 ^7 Carl Shroder.^ The first is from a man- 

 uscript of the fifteenth century, now in Leipzig," in the handwriting 

 of a Saxon monk who lived probably in the neighborhood of Meissen.' 

 The other is in a MS. of the same century at Donaueschingen, 

 written in the Suabian dialect and closely resembling the Volksbuch 

 written by Heinrich Steinhowel and published by Gintherus Zainer 

 von Reutlingen at Antwerp, in 147 1 — Die hy story des Kuniges Ap- 

 pollonij vo latin zu ieutsch geinachet, Gintherus Zainer von Reut- 

 li7igen. Augspitrg, 14'ji, fol. (31 leaves; 35 lines to the full page; 

 without pagination, signature or calch words). The book is be- 

 lieved by some to have been written in 1461, by others in 1464. 

 An acrostic found in the poem gives the date of composition. 

 Bartsch {Germanische Studie7i, ii, 305) fixes the date at 1461 ; Sin- 

 ger at 1464. Heinrich Steinhowel, the author, was born in 141 2 at 

 Weil. He visited Italy, studied medicine at Padua, and practiced 

 his profession in Esslingen. He died at Ulm in 1483.* He was a 

 translator, and published a rendering of Petrarch's Latin version of 

 Boccaccio's Griseldis. He also translated Boccaccio's De Claris 

 Mulief^ibiis, which was printed by Johann Zainer von Reutlingen, 

 1473, ^'^'^^ reprinted by Anton Sorg, 1479. ^^ is also published by 

 Karl Drescher in Bibliothek des Litt. Vereins in Stuttgart, Vol. 

 205. 



This Augsburg Apollonius was reprinted by Joh. Bemler in 



1476; Anth. Sorg, 1479 ^"<^ 1480; at Ulm, 1495 ; again at Ulm, 



by Hans Zeiner, 1499, and at Augsburg, by H. Froschauer, 15 16. 



It is the same book that bears the title Von Kilnig Appolonio. Eyn 



sch'one und lustige Histori nit mynders nutzlich dann kurtzweilig zu 



1 "Griseldis. Apollonius von Tyius, Aus Handschfiften herausgegeben von 

 Carl Schroder, Leipzig, T. O. Weigel, 1873." This is Heft ii, Pt. 5, of Mit- 

 theilungeii der dciitschen Gesellschaft ziir Erfoi'sc/mng vaterldndiscJur 

 Sprache iind Altertilnier in Leipzig, pp. 85-13 1. 



2 Haupt speaks of another MS. in Breslau ( O pus c 11 la, iii, 28). 



3 A conjecture of Schroder, adopted by Penon. 



*Paul, Grintdriss, ii, i, 403 (article by F. Vogt), Wackernagel-Martin, Gesch. 

 der dent. Lit.,S. 454, A. 234, gives 1420 as the year of birth. For the biography 

 of Steinhowel, see Keller Litteratur Verein, 51 : 673, and Wunderlich, St. und 

 das Decameron, 1889. 



