The survey analyses the upcoming intersection between compilation processes and narratives in Ulrich Fuetrer’s book ‘Buch der Abenteuer’ (‘Book of adventures’) for the first time. The author shows that Fuetrer uses established adaption techniques although he reinvents these processes. By using his compilatio process he not only describes the antecedent works but also the narrative techniques connected with the works and ‘genres’ and thus generates an artificial compendium, an epic literature-history. The survey gives detailed insights in literature-historical, poetological and narratological developments whose effects on the time period between the late middle ages and early modern times have not been sufficiently analysed yet. Here, the survey makes an important literary-critical contribution on the controversial and for centuries ongoing debate on the early modern epochs.