[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Sanskrit Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900) › c19.26 # A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.26 A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.26 - **Language:** English ### [c19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.26) From John of Capua's work was made, at the instance of Duke Eberhardt of Wurtemberg, the famous German version, \*Das Buch der Byspel der alten Wysen\*, or "Book of Apologues of the Ancient Sages," first printed about 1481. The fact that four dated editions appeared at Ulm between 1483 and 1485, and thirteen more down to 1592, is a sufficiently eloquent proof of the importance of this work as a means of instruction and amusement during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The \*Directorium\* was also the source of the Italian version, printed at Venice in 1552, from which came the English translation of Sir Thomas North (1570). The latter was thus separated from the Indian original by five intervening translations and a thousand years of time. - [Previous: c19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.25) - [Next: c19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.27) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.macdonell-1900.c19.26) · Pramāṇa