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*Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek: Textbuch 4º 24.
Libretto for an opera performed in Wolfenbüttel on 4 November 1678, the music for
which was probably composed by Nicolaus Adam Strungk. (Mourey suggests, p. 51,
n. 70, that the date is not reliable, having simply been added in pencil.) The work is
available online at http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/textb-4f-24/start.htm and a facsimile
reprint can be found in 1993/2.
Heiduk 54 (no. 23). Dunnhaupt III 2148.
1679
1. [Pastor fido: German]. Der getreue Schäfer. N. pl., n. d., 8º. Pp. 207. Forming
past of C.H.V.H. Deutsche Ubersetzungen und Gedichte. Mit bewilligung deß
Autoris. In Breßlau, verlegts Esaias Fellgibel Buchhändl. daselbst, 1679, 8º.
Taylorian: Vet.Ger.I.A.2.
The complications inherent in the bibliographical description of editions of Hoffmann
von Hoffmannswaldau‟s Deutsche Übersetzungen und Gedichte, which are made up
of a bewildering variety of separate parts in different printings and of which the
translation of the Pastor fido, in a slightly modified version, will, from 1679, form an
integral part, are well documented by Beare and by Heiduk, though against 12
editions of the collection published up to 1730 Dünnhaupt inexplicably lists only 6
editions of the Getreue Schäfer, ignoring some of what his predecessors had to say on
the subject.. He does not, for example, list any copies of a 1679 edition with
„Gedichte‟ in the title, listing only copies with „Getichte‟ and giving „Gedichte‟ as a
possibility only from 1704. (It is true that Beare, somewhat disarmingly, does not
attach any great significance to the alternative spelling but this is too simplistic.) Nor
does Dünnhaupt list any copies of the Getreue Schäfer after 1710. He does, however,
distinguish between two distinct title-pages of 1679 with „Getichte‟, one with a
pattern of type ornaments before the imprint, the other, later, one with a woodcut
ornament. As a further complication the Imperial privilege, granted at the end of
1679, may be present, printed on one or on two leaves or as a double-page spread
tipped in, as may the Saxon privilege, granted in 1681. Copies of the Getreue Schäfer
were printed with and without the vignettes (again somewhat surprisingly Dünnhaupt
does not list an edition without vignettes before 1689) and in some later copies, still
with the date 1679, five full-page plates, one for each Act, were added. It is obvious,
therefore, that these and other complications make a definitive description of all the
likely variations impossible within the constraints of this list and, generally, I shall
comment in detail only on those editions of the Deutsche Übersetzungen und
Gedichte that I have seen. Further details may be gleaned from Beare‟s and from
Heiduk‟s articles and from Dunnhaupt‟s bibliography. The most recent and most
documented pronouncement on the problem, that of Klaus-Peter Möller in his article
on „Die Fingerabdruckmethode‟, uses reproductions of patterns of ornaments to
separate out the various printings of the text but I have not included these intermediate
printings in my list. It is possible that some of the remaining conundrums were