A catalogue of medieval literature, especially of the romances of chivalry, and books relating to the customs, costume, art, and pageantry of the middle ages.

  • Bernard Quaritch Ltd
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of medieval literature, especially of the romances of chivalry, and books relating to the customs, costume, art, and pageantry of the middle ages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    401 Romanceeo GrENEEAL . .. sm. 4to. (first complete edition of the Primera Parte), the first and the last leaf of the table in facsimile; red morocco extra, gilt edges, hy Zaehnsdorf Madrid, luan de la Cuesta, 1604 24 402 ROMANCERO GENERAL . . . nvevamente ahadido, y emendado por Petro Flores, sm. 4to. (second complete edition of the Primera Parte), the title and some leaves of the Table mended, otherwise a fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford Madrid, Tuan de la Gttesta, 1614 20 403 the same, sm. 4to. old calf, the finest and largest copy in the world, with many uncut leaves 1614 25 The 1M4 Eomancero is a verbal reprint, page for page, of the 1604 volume. Only the four preliminary leaves show any difference, and the name of Pedro Flores added on the title is to be noted. Some of the finest, most musical, and most stirring of the ballads of the world— historical and romantic—are enshrined in the Eomancero General. Of such popular compositions, the authors are unknown—at least of all that appeared in Spain during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 404 Lockhaet (J. G.) Ancient Spanish Ballads, historical and romantic, translated, 4to. portrait, woodcuts, ornamental borders, and five illuminated titles by Owen Jones and others, hf. morocco 1859 1 XIII. CHIVALRIC AND ROMANTIC CHRONICLES. 405 LE ROMAN DB BRUT par Wace poete du xii Siecle, publie pour la premiere fois par Le Roux de Lincy, 3 vols. 8vo. facsimiles, hf. green morocco, gilt tops, uncut Bouen, 1836-37-38 2 406 another copy, seived 1836-37-38 1 407 the same, laege papee, but without the third part, which is the Description des MSS. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. sd. 1836-38 3 Usually called a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but really a new work based upon it, and comprising several things not in the original. Wace, or Gasse, was a Jersey man, who finished this poem in a.d. 1155. He is usually called Eobert Wace, but erroneously. Wace, or Gasse, was his Christian name; he had no other. This is the first French chronicle of Britain now existing. Gaimar’s, written about the same time, has perished, so far as the British period is concerned. 403 LE ROMAN DE ROU et des Dues de Normandie, par Robert Wace, publie pour la premiere fois d’apres les MSS. par Frederic Pluquet, 2 vols. 8vo. facsimile, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut Bouen, 1827 1 409 the same, laege papee, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. sewed 1827 2 This Chronicle of the Normans was written by Wace about 1180. It was used to a considerable extent in the compilation of the thirteenth century prose Chronicle, which follows below. 410 LAGAMONS BRUT, or Chronicle of Britain, a poetical semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace, now first published [in both texts] from the MSS. with a literal translation, notes, and glossary, by Sir The poet was a priest at Ernley, or Arley, on the Severn, and he is believed to have written this book about the year 1200. 411 CHRONIQUES DES DUGS DE NORMANDIE (depuis Ron jusqu’a Henri iii. d’Angleterre), Magnificent Manu- SCEIPT ON Vellum (275 leaves), written in beautiful and large Gothic characters., similar to those of the celebrated Manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles in the National Library. It is exquisitely ornamented with 15 large and suPEEB Miniatures and several hundred Initial Lettees 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 2 0 15 0 10 0 16 0 10 0