Koen, it really doesn't get much closer than that, does it? Even though some good ones have been previously posted via careful detective work by some of the members, your most recent one is the closest I've seen.
And yes, you are right about the mirror image... sometimes woodcuts were created in reverse so the drawings came out the same as the exemplar, but often they were not—mirror images of earlier hand-drawn illustrations were common. In fact, one often sees them in Renaissance-era herbals.
I'll take a look at the German and be back in a few moments...
Back... I don't have time to do a translation, but it's basically a romanticized description of courting and concepts of courtly love (advice to the young and yet unmarried).
I notice that even though it's a mass-produced book, a woodcut, it retains many of the scribal conventions of handwritten texts (looks like it might have been copied almost directly from a hand-written text, since the abbreviations vary in a way that was not characteristic of later standardized typesetting). Also, it's dialect (at least in terms of spelling), with "a" substituted for "e" in some places, and "p" for "b" and a few others.
And yes, you are right about the mirror image... sometimes woodcuts were created in reverse so the drawings came out the same as the exemplar, but often they were not—mirror images of earlier hand-drawn illustrations were common. In fact, one often sees them in Renaissance-era herbals.
I'll take a look at the German and be back in a few moments...
Back... I don't have time to do a translation, but it's basically a romanticized description of courting and concepts of courtly love (advice to the young and yet unmarried).
I notice that even though it's a mass-produced book, a woodcut, it retains many of the scribal conventions of handwritten texts (looks like it might have been copied almost directly from a hand-written text, since the abbreviations vary in a way that was not characteristic of later standardized typesetting). Also, it's dialect (at least in terms of spelling), with "a" substituted for "e" in some places, and "p" for "b" and a few others.