Speculum vitae aulicae
Subtitle: de admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes libri quatuor
By: nunc primum exidiomate germanico latinitate donati, adiectis elegantissimis iconibus, veras omnium apologorum animalium[que]; species ad vivum adumbrantibus auctore Hartmanno Schoppero, Novoforense Norico. Cum gratia & privilegio ad decennium
Contributors: Beuther, Michael, 1522-1587; Amman, Jost, 1539-1591, illustrator; Solis, Virgil, 1514-1562, illustrator; Bassée, Nicolas, -1601, printer
Publisher: [Ex officina typograhica Nicolai Bassei]
Published: 1595
Place of publication: Francof. ad Moen. [Frankfurt am Main]
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 465
Other titles: Specvlvm vitae aulicae de admirabili fallacia et astvtia vvlpecvlae Reinikes libri quatuor; Reynard the Fox. Latin.
Work titles: Reinke de Vos. Latin
Notes: Colophon: Francoforti, ex officina typographica Nicolai Bassei. M.D. XCV.

Signatures: A-X¹² (last leaf blank)

Title vignette (N. Basse's device. Heitz 124); woodcuts by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.

Translation in Latin verse, based on the anonymous High German adaptation (Frankfurt, 1544) of the Low German poem (1st published Lübeck, 1498). In his dedication, Schopper ascribes the High German version to Beuther.

Original edition, Frankfurt, 1567, has title: Opus poeticum. De admirabili fallacia et astvtia vvlpecvlae Reinikes libros quatuor ... complectens.

Goedeke II (1886) p. 106