Boner

Boner, ULRICH, one of the oldest German fabulists, was a preaching friar of Bern, and is frequently mentioned in documents of the years 1324–49. His collection of a hundred fables was entitled Der Edelstein, and was first printed, with woodcuts, at Bamberg in 1461. Only two copies now exist. Breitinger published a complete edition of the work at Zurich in 1757, under the title, Fabeln aus den Zeiten der Minnesinger, which supplied materials to Lessing for his studies on the philosophy of fable. A more complete edition was published in 1844 by Franz Pfeiffer as vol. iv. of Dichtungen des Deutschen Mittelalters.