Editing Hortulus Animae

{{Short description|15th to 16th century prayer book}}
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[[Image:Hortulus Animae, polonice.jpg|thumb|Page from ''Hortulus Animae polonice'']]
'''''Hortulus Animae''''' ({{langx|en|Little Garden of the Soul}}, {{langx|de|Seelengärtlein}}, {{langx|fr|Jardin des Âmes}}, {{langx|pl|Raj duszny}}) was the Latin title of a prayer book also available in German. It was very popular in the early sixteenth century, printed in many versions, also abroad in [[Lyon]]s and [[Kraków]].

==History==
An earlier well-known work of devotion and of moral instruction, richly illustrated with stories, was ''"Der Selen Würtzgart"'', first printed at [[Ulm]] in 1483. The meaning of the title is "Herb garden of the Soul", which is similar to later titles.

The first known edition of ''Hortulus Animae'', dated 13 March 1498, was printed at [[Strasbourg]] by [[Wilhelm Schaffener]] of [[Ribeauvillé]] (''Rappschwihr''), followed by German versions appearing in 1501. Later editions contained woodcuts by the well-known engravers [[Hans Springinklee]] and [[Erhard Schön]], with beautiful miniatures in some existing manuscript examples, like the one at [[Vienna]] (Cod. [[Austrian National Library|Bibl. Pal. Vindobonensis]]. 2706, 1907), which has been reproduced as facsimile by [[Friedrich Dornhöffer]]. In 1501/1502, [[Sebastian Brant]] from Strasbourg translated it into [[German language|German]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Sebastian Brant, Forschungsbeiträge zu seinem Leben, zum Narrenschiff und zum übrigen Werk |publisher=[[Schwabe Verlag]] |isbn=3-7965-1734-X |editor-last=Wilhelmi |editor-first=Thomas |location=Basel |pages=33 |language=de}}</ref>

''Hortulus Animae polonice'', a Polish version written by [[Biernat of Lublin]], printed and published in 1513 by [[Florian Ungler]] in [[Kraków]], was believed to be the first book printed in the [[Polish language]] (it is the second<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://krakowcityofliterature.com/city-of-literature/the-history-of-literature-in-krakow/|title=The history of literature in Krakow|website=krakowcityofliterature.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>). The last known copy was lost during [[World War II]].

The work is mentioned briefly at the end of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story "[[The Man of the Crowd]]."

==See also==
* ''[[Book of Henryków]]''
* ''[[Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474]]''
* [[History of printing in Poland]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07472a.htm ''Hortulus Animæ'' - Little Garden of the Soul]

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