Ventes live - Lot 575
[Facsimile]
Das Turnierbuch für René d'Anjou (Le Pas de Saumur). Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift Codex Fr. F. XIV. Nr. 4 (...).
Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1998
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Description du lot
3 vol., folio.
Text and transl. vol.: cloth; facsimile vol.: mod. quarter leather, gilt titled spine on 5 raised bands, marbl. paper on covers, orange cloth slipcase. Very good copy.
Beautiful colour facsimile edition of the Northern France ms. held in the Russian National Library in St Petersburg. It is a description of a sumptuous joust festival that René d'Anjou (1409-1480) organised for his knights in 1448 in Saumur. All ff. are cut according to the original. One of 580 numb. copies (n. 194). With the accompanying Kommentarband and a finely executed translation vol. (2002) in French of that commentary volume, by Benoit Gobbe. Bookpl. B. [Gobbe] in each vol.