Aucassin & Nicolette

Macmillan and Co., , c.1897. A fine example in period full decorative gilt calf. . Edition: Second Edition, Binding: Original full calf with tooled gilt rules. Spine decorated extensively with tooled gilt design. Gilt dentelles.Marbled pasted and free-end papers.Top edge gilt. Front and bottom edges uncut., Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland.

An Old-French Love Story Edited and Translated by Francis William Bourdillon M.A. Second Edition The Text Collated Afresh With The Manuscript At Paris The Translation Revised & The Introduction Rewritten.
Aucassin et Nicolette (12th or 13th C) is an anonymous medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"sung story\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\", 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 La Curne de Sainte-Pelaye (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 twelfth century.[1] It is the only known chantefable, and thus from this work the term chantefable is coined from the concluding lines: “No cantefable prent fin” (\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Our chantefable is drawing to a close\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\")
, Pages: P. Half Title, Printer’s Imprint, Title,Printer info, Contents (1), blank, Forward, intro, Intro (ix-lxxii), note (1), 4-153, Appendix (160-171), Bibliography 177-192, Glossary 195-229, Printer’s imprint. , Category: Book Literature; Book Europe France;