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HUON DE BORDEAUX -- Sensuyvent les proesses et faictz merveilleux du noble Huon de Bordeulx … Nouvellement redigé en bon francoys. Paris: widow of Jean Trepperel, n.d. [c. 1516-1520].
Small 4° (186 x 121mm). Gothic type, double column. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette, full-page woodcut on A8v and 20 cuts of varying sizes in text. (G1 short at bottom margin, some repairs to quire G, particularly to final leaf.) Brown morocco gilt by Bauzonnet-Trautz, triple fillet border on sides, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled and gilt edges (joints lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878; morocco label, sale 1913, lot 3907) – Edouard Rahir (1862-1924; sale Paris, 1931, lot 561; morocco label).
VERY RARE EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH CHIVALRIC ROMANCES, ILLUSTRATED WITH 20 WOODCUTS. THE HUTH-RAHIR COPY.
The author of this chanson de geste is unknown. Huon de Bordeaux gave his name to a whole cycle of romances, originally composed in verse between 1216 and 1268, probably by an artisan minstrel. Like the majority of the chansons de geste, it was translated into prose in the 15th century; and it is those prose versions exclusively that made it to the printing press in the 16th and 17th centuries. The colophon here states that the translation from verse into prose was undertaken at the request of Charles de Rochefort, Hues of Longueval and Pierre Ruotte in 1454. An important text which inspired Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wielan, the story tells of the peregrinations of the knight Huon, who, after unwittingly killing the son of Emperor Charlemagne, is sent on a journey to fulfill seemingly impossible tasks in order to win reprieve from death and regain his duchy of Bordeaux. Huon succeeds on his 'mission impossible' with the help of the fairy king Oberon.
Brunet III, 382; USTC 83134 gives a colophon differing from the one in this copy naming 'la veufve feu Jehan trepperel et Jehan Ihannot Jmprimeur et libraire …' as printers; Michel J. Raby, (ed.), Le Huon de Bordeaux enprose du XVème siècle. New York: Lang, 1998.
Small 4° (186 x 121mm). Gothic type, double column. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette, full-page woodcut on A8v and 20 cuts of varying sizes in text. (G1 short at bottom margin, some repairs to quire G, particularly to final leaf.) Brown morocco gilt by Bauzonnet-Trautz, triple fillet border on sides, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled and gilt edges (joints lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878; morocco label, sale 1913, lot 3907) – Edouard Rahir (1862-1924; sale Paris, 1931, lot 561; morocco label).
VERY RARE EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH CHIVALRIC ROMANCES, ILLUSTRATED WITH 20 WOODCUTS. THE HUTH-RAHIR COPY.
The author of this chanson de geste is unknown. Huon de Bordeaux gave his name to a whole cycle of romances, originally composed in verse between 1216 and 1268, probably by an artisan minstrel. Like the majority of the chansons de geste, it was translated into prose in the 15th century; and it is those prose versions exclusively that made it to the printing press in the 16th and 17th centuries. The colophon here states that the translation from verse into prose was undertaken at the request of Charles de Rochefort, Hues of Longueval and Pierre Ruotte in 1454. An important text which inspired Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wielan, the story tells of the peregrinations of the knight Huon, who, after unwittingly killing the son of Emperor Charlemagne, is sent on a journey to fulfill seemingly impossible tasks in order to win reprieve from death and regain his duchy of Bordeaux. Huon succeeds on his 'mission impossible' with the help of the fairy king Oberon.
Brunet III, 382; USTC 83134 gives a colophon differing from the one in this copy naming 'la veufve feu Jehan trepperel et Jehan Ihannot Jmprimeur et libraire …' as printers; Michel J. Raby, (ed.), Le Huon de Bordeaux enprose du XVème siècle. New York: Lang, 1998.
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