To date ‘Melusine’ – as an example of a literary book that has over the centuries reached different groups of readers in varying book forms – has above all been an object of research for scholars of literary studies, who mainly work on the 15th and 16th centuries. This volume is the first time that the entire history of the transmission of the work from the 15th to the early 19th centuries has been studied from an interdisciplinary approach. It presents the individual traditions of transmission and their interrelationships, as well as peculiarities in the book, text and illustrations. Special Price: This title and Die Überlieferung der "Melusine" des Thüring von Ringoltingen (von 1472/73 bis ins 19. Jahrhundert (978-3-11-026047-2) are availabe together for a special price: € 200,00 / US$ 280,00.