Aucasin & Nicolette Translated from the old French With Colored Illustrations by Maxwell Armfield (Signed Binding Sangorski & Sutcliffe)

Aucasin & Nicolette Translated from the old French With Colored Illustrations by Maxwell Armfield (Signed Binding Sangorski & Sutcliffe)

Author: Mason, Eugene (trans)

12mo. (4.75" x 7.25") 1925. Mason, Eugene (trans). London and New York: J.M. Dent & Sons, E.P. Dutton & Co. Full polished calf bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with double gilt rule framing both boards, upper with gilt title and gilt wreathed device centered to cover. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title on fancy gilt bordered brown leather to second compartment, gilt hearts and floral sprays framed with fancy git rule to all other compartments. Heavy gilt turn-ins with red and black printed endpapers, all edges gilt. A gorgeous book, well bound.

With color illustrations by Maxwell Armfield, including frontispiece. Eugene Mason's translation of the famous medieval French story, nicely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Aucassin et Nicolette is an anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the unique example of a chantefable, literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse (similar to a prosimetrum). The work probably dates from the late 12th or early 13th century, and is known from only one surviving manuscript, discovered in 1752 by medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (BnF, Fonds Français 2168). Stylistically, the chantefable combines elements of many Old French genres, such as the chanson de geste (e.g., The Song of Roland), lyric poems, and courtly novels—literary forms already well-established by the 12th century. Aucassin et Nicolette is the only known chantefable, the term itself having been derived from the story's concluding lines: "No cantefable prent fin" ("Our chantefable is drawing to a close").

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