[LA CURNE DE SAINTE-PALAYE (Jean-Baptiste de)] - Lot 602

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[LA CURNE DE SAINTE-PALAYE (Jean-Baptiste de)] - Lot 602
[LA CURNE DE SAINTE-PALAYE (Jean-Baptiste de)] Literary history of the Troubadours, containing their lives, extracts from their plays, & several particulars on the mores & history of the twelfth & thirteenth centuries. Paris, Durand, 1774. 3 volumes in-12. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spines decorated, black title and endpapers, 4 damaged headpieces, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges. First edition of the first known synthesis on this subject. It gathers the biographies of many troubadours, but also songs and fables. This work was written according to the notes collected by the learned medievalist of the XVIIIth century, La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, put in order by the Abbé Millot. It gives us precious information on this period of our French literature and on forgotten writers.
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