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Additional authors

1. Luces, de Gast, active 1199?
2. Hélie, de Boron, active 13th century
3. Verard, Antoine, -approximately 1513
4. Thibaron-Joly (Firm), binder.

Description

1. 2 volumes ([4], clxxvii [that is, 180]; cxliiii [that is, 152] leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts); 28 cm (fol.)

Uniform title

1. Roman de Tristan en prose. French (Middle French)
2. Tristan (Legend). French (Old French)

Alternative title

1. Tristan chevalier de la table ronde
2. Tristan chlr de la table ronde
3. De Tristan
4. Seconde partie de Tristan.

Subject

1. Tristan (Legendary character) > Romances
2. Iseult (Legendary character) > Romances
3. Arthurian romances

Genre/Form

1. Romances.
2. Woodcuts – France – 15th century.
3. Woodcuts – France – 16th century.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1506 (Tristan)

Note

1. Running title, v. 1: "De Tristan"; v. 2: "La seconde partie de Tristan."
2. "Cy co[m]mence la table de ce premier volume de Tristan cheualier de la table ronde"--Title page verso.
3. Text of the romance begins, leaf [i]b: Pour exciter et esmouuoir les cueurs des nobles ... Je Luce cheualier seigneur du chasteau de Gast ... ay voulu rediger et mettre en volume lhystoire auctentique des vertueux, nobles et glorieux faictz du tresuaillant et renomme cheualier Tristan, filz du puissant roy Meliadus de Leonnoys ...
4. The attribution to "Luce cheualier seigneur du chasteau de Gast" (Luces de Gast) is unfounded. "It is said elsewhere in the work that he [Luces] abandoned his labours through death and that the completion is due to Hélie de Boron, which appears to be a pseudonym (through the influence of Robert de Boron) representing an entirely fictional person. There is disagreement about what is meant to be credited to Luce and whether or not he existed as a real person"--Oxford dictionary of national biography, under "Gast, Luce of."
5. First edition published by Verard, 1489; this is Verard's fourth edition.
6. Place of printing from title page; name of publisher from colophon, which reads: Cy finist le second et dernier volume fait & compile a lhonneur & memoire du tres vaillant, noble & excellent cheualier Trista[n] filz du noble roy Meliadus de Leonois. Imprime a Paris pour Anthoine Verard ...
7. Approximate date of publication from Macfarlaine.
8. Signatures: v. 1: 2a⁴ a-y⁸ z⁴; v. 2: A-T⁸.
9. Numerous errors in foliation, for example: in v. 1, last leaf misnumbered clxxvii; in v. 2, many misnumberings after leaf lxxii.
10. Printed in 2 columns. Bastard type; 40 lines.
11. Illustrations: 7 woodcuts, comprising 2 full-page cuts (leaves a1r, K2r); 4 three-quarter page cuts (including 1 repeat) (leaves A1r, C5v (repeated N4v), D6r); and 1 half-page cut within four-piece historiated and ornamental woodcut border (leaf y4v). Half-page cut is a battle scene from Jean Bonhomme's Destruction de Troie series (Bonhomme's edition of Jacques Milet's Istoire de la destruction de Troye la grant, 1484); others from this series were used by Verard in his editions of Les commentaires de Iulius Cesar (1486, 1488) and Christine de Pisan's Lart de cheualerie selon Vegece (1488); one side piece shows David with the head of Goliath. Remaining cuts belong to Verard's romance series. See Pollard (cited below).
12. Many woodcut initials of various sizes (some historiated and ornamental). Title page in part xylographic.

Indexed in (note)

1. Universal short title catalogue
2. Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle
3. Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)
4. Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici
5. Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum
6. Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle
7. Macfarlane, J. Antoine Vérard
8. Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram fourth earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available online (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy) via Gallica.

Provenance (note)

1. The La Roche Lacarelle-Ramet-John B. Stetson Jr. copy, with bookplates of La Roche Lacarelle and André Ramet, of Saint-Malo. For La Roche Lacarelle, see Catalogue des livres rares et précieux manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron S. de La Roche Lacarelle, 1888, lot 321; for Stetson, see American Art Association-Anderson Galleries catalog, April 17-18, 1935 (Romances of chivalry ...), lot 344.

Binding (note)

1. Dark brown crushed levant morocco, spine gilt, by Thibaron-Joly (signed at foot of front doublure); doublé with crimson morocco, gilt, with dentelle border; with marbled end leaves and edges gilt over marbled. Bound in 1 volume.

Title

1. Tristan ch[eua]l[ie]r de la table ronde

Publisher

1. Nouuellement imprime a Paris : pour Anthoine Verard marchant libraire demourant en ladicte ville de Paris deuant la rue Neufue Nostre Dame a lenseigne Sainct Iehan leuangeliste, ou au Palais au premier pillier deuant la chappelle ou len chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens, [1506?]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Universal short title catalogue, 8320 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/8320
2. Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle, BP16_100822 http://bp16.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb418738351/
3. Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 5, column 955
4. Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, v. 8, page 220, no. 2833
5. Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 426
6. Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, v. 1, page 215 (1506, no. 172)
7. Macfarlane, J. Antoine Vérard, entry 193
8. Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram fourth earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Early printed books, v. 2, pages 267-269, no. 555

Additional formats

1. Also available online (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy) via Gallica.

Binding

1. Dark brown crushed levant morocco, spine gilt, by Thibaron-Joly (signed at foot of front doublure); doublé with crimson morocco, gilt, with dentelle border; with marbled end leaves and edges gilt over marbled. Bound in 1 volume. NN

Provenance

1. The La Roche Lacarelle-Ramet-John B. Stetson Jr. copy, with bookplates of La Roche Lacarelle and André Ramet, of Saint-Malo. For La Roche Lacarelle, see Catalogue des livres rares et précieux manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron S. de La Roche Lacarelle, 1888, lot 321; for Stetson, see American Art Association-Anderson Galleries catalog, April 17-18, 1935 (Romances of chivalry ...), lot 344. NN

Place of publication

1. France Paris.

Added author

1. Luces, de Gast, active 1199?, attributed name.
2. Hélie, de Boron, active 13th century, attributed name.
3. Verard, Antoine, -approximately 1513, publisher.
4. La Roche Lacarelle, Sosthène, baron de, 1816-1887, former owner.
5. Ramet, Andre, former owner.
6. Stetson, John B., Jr. (John Batterson), 1884-1952, former owner.
7. Thibaron-Joly (Firm), binder.

Added title

1. Tristan (Legend). French (Old French)
2. Seconde partie de Tristan.

Other standard identifier

1. PML 555

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1506 (Tristan)