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tim00353200
- Text-inc Id:
- tim00353200
- Bod-inc Id:
- M-145
- Headings:
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Matheolus
Lamentationes [French] Le livre de Matheolus (ed. Alexandre Primet).
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a2r Matheolus: Le livre de Matheolus. Verses translated into Middle French by Jean Le Fèvre. Edited by Alexandre Primet. Les Lamentations de Matheolus et le Livre de Leësce de Jehan Le Fèvre, ed. A. G. Van Hamel, 2 vols, Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études . . . Sources philologiques et historiques, 95-6 (Paris, 1892-1905), I 1-315. See also Véronique Gély-Ghédira, ‘Entre l'exemplum et l'emblème: l'image exemplaire, à propos des éditions imprimées du Livre de Mathéolus', Bulletin du bibliophile, 1 (1990), 29-62, at 34.
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k6r [Acrostic verse.] Incipit: ‘A tous ceulx qui me liront | Leur supplie de cueur entier'; 10 lines of verse. Not in Van Hamel's edition. The first letter of each line reveals the editor's name ‘Allesandre Primet'; see Fairfax Murray, French Books, I 496.
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[Lyons: Claude Dayne, c.1498]. Folio.
- Collation:
- a8 b–k6. Type: 97 B. 62 leaves. 2 columns of 45 lines (a2r). Type area: 217 ×139 mm (a2r). Woodcuts. One of at least three closely related editions; see Fairfax Murray, French Books. Leaf a1r: Historiated L [ ]; a2r: ‘¶ Comment matheolus bigame | Fiſt vng liure diſant ſa game | De mariage tout a plain | Et en commenſant ſe complain | [woodcut] | [t]Riſtis eſt anima mea | . . .'; b1r: ‘La ioincture trop ſe hauſſa | . . .'; k6r, col. 2, l. 15: ‘¶ A tous ceulx qui me liront | Leur ſupplie de cueur entier | Louent le bien que ilz verront | . . . (l. 25) ¶ Pour lan que ie fus mys en ſens | Retenez .M. et cinq cens | Je vous prie oſtes en huyt | Mettez octobre le tiers iour | Et prenez plaiſir [et] ſeiour | Tout ainſy comme il ſenſuyt || ¶ Explicit'.
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: im00353200
C 3918;
Pr 8666;
Fairfax Murray, French Books, 364; Sheppard 6722-3.
LCN: 14550883
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M-145(1)
Copy
The lower portion of a1 containing the title in verse below the initial ‘L' has been torn away.
A woodcut taken out from a southern German fifteenth/sixteenth-century book has been inserted between b3 and b4.
Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 279 × 195 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 181 mm.
Provenance: ‘James du talarn'; signature on e5r in a sixteenth-century hand.
‘Guillaume de lallitt'; signature on k6r in a sixteenth-century hand.
Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 208.
