The adventures of Andolocia, with the purse and cap of his father Fortunatus
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The adventures of Andolocia, with the purse and cap of his father Fortunatus - A new edition, with three copperplates. - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunatus_(book) Release date is 2026-04-23
Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Fortunatus is a German proto-novel or chapbook about a legendary hero popular in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, and usually associated with a magical inexhaustible purse.
The plot of the novel also appears in variants from oral tradition across Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa, which are classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 566, "The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits".
(This summary is from Wikipedia.)
Fairy tales Fortunatus (Legendary character) -- In literature
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The adventures of Andolocia, with the purse and cap of his father Fortunatus - A new edition, with three copperplates. - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunatus_(book) Release date is 2026-04-23
Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Fortunatus is a German proto-novel or chapbook about a legendary hero popular in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, and usually associated with a magical inexhaustible purse.
The plot of the novel also appears in variants from oral tradition across Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa, which are classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 566, "The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits".
(This summary is from Wikipedia.)
Fairy tales Fortunatus (Legendary character) -- In literature
PZ