B. Croce, Di un antico romanzo spagnuolo relativo alla storia di Napoli. La Question di Amor, Naples, 1894 ; Brun, p. 167 ; Palau 243468 ; Brunet, II, 548 : “livre rare” ; Charles d’Orl\u00e9ans, Ballades et Rondeaux. Edition du manuscrit 25458 du fonds fran\u00e7ais de la BnF, ed. Jean-Claude M\u00fchletaler, Paris, Lettres gothiques, Le livre de poche, 1992 ; the poems by Charles d’Orl\u00e9ans are unrecorded by Lach\u00e8vre, Bibliographie des recueils collectifs de po\u00e9sies du XVIe si\u00e8cle, Paris, Champion, 1922.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the French translation. Famous sentimental Spanish novel to which are added two ballads by Charles d’Orl\u00e9ans : Veuillez vos yeulx emprisonner<\/i>, and C’est grand peril de regarder<\/i>. The book opens with a fine title printed in within a large architectual wood cut border, the printer’s wood cut vignette is on the last leaf. The book is furthermore illustrated with 31 woodcut vignettes and ornate initials.<\/p>\n
This text, attributed by some scholars to the Spanish writer Diego Hernandez de San Pedro (1437-1498), is the anonymous translation of Question de amor et dos enamorados<\/i>, written in dialogue form or letters, in prose or verse form, first published in Valencia in 1513. The numerous historic details of the action happening in Naples have all been studied by Benedetto Croce. With two poems by Charles d’Orl\u00e9ans printed at the end These two famous Ballades, are amongst the oldest known, written before his long imprisonment in England (1415-1440) : Veuillez vos yeulx emprisonner<\/i>, and C’est grand peril de regarder<\/i> (f. 79). Although the form does not follow the original manuscript (BnF Ms. 25458), published by Chalvet in 1803, these are indeed Ballades 2 and 3, previously included in all known manuscripts as well as in the first printed books of poetry of Charles d’Orl\u00e9ans, namely : Jardin de Plaisance<\/i> (1501), Le Triomphe de l’Amant vert by Jean Lemaire de Belges<\/i> (1535), and Chasse et le Depart d’Amours <\/i>(printed by Antoine V\u00e9rard in 1509). The lesson of the D\u00e9bat<\/i> follows precisely the edition given by V\u00e9rard (folio R2).<\/p>\n
Magnificent copy, exquisitely bound by the end of the 17th century in blue morocco<\/p>\n
The cipher on this copy – previously attributed to the duc de Sully, Minister under King Henri IV- has recently been identified by Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux, as explained in the catalogue of the exhibition held in Chantilly in 2002 (Reliures fran\u00e7aises du XVIIe si\u00e8cle. Chefs-d’oeuvre du Mus\u00e9e Cond\u00e9,<\/i> Paris, 2002). The present binding is to be counted for the group of bindings, now attributed by both scholars to the group of “reliures au grand W” (numbers 33 and 34 of the catalogue), dated between 1695-1700 and of about a dozen examples are known today. According to the researchers these binding are now part of they call “groupe 4”, predominantly bound for J\u00e9r\u00f4me Duvivier, d’Antoine Leriche, Ren\u00e9-Fran\u00e7ois marquis de La Vieuville or other important collectors of the time, also called “les curieux”.<\/p>\n
“C’est dans le milieu des “curieux” parisiens, \u00e0 l’extr\u00eame fin du XVIIe si\u00e8cle, qu’ont fait leur apparition des reliures sp\u00e9cialement destin\u00e9es \u00e0 recouvrir des livres rares. Ces reliures ont en commun deux caract\u00e9ristiques : elles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ex\u00e9cut\u00e9es exclusivement sur des livres fran\u00e7ais ou traduits en fran\u00e7ais” (op. cit., p. 64). Of great rarity: no copy at the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, the Catalogue collectif de France indicates one single institutional copy (Versailles BM).<\/p>\n
Small restorations on to the title page, else very fine.<\/p>\n
Provenance : old notes on fly-leaves (no. 530 fly leaf verso as well the price 19# and numbers 20 \u00e0 24 on the fly leaf at end; Charles Butler of Warren Wood (book plate) \u2013 Bernard Malle (his discreet stamp).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
8vo (137 x 91 mm) 8 nn.ll., 80 num.ll. ; 27 lines plus headline, printed with round characters. Seventeenth-century dark blue morocco, triple gilt filets on covers, gilt crowned central monogram ‘W’, same monogramm in all corners, spine with raised bands, each compartment richly gilt and alternating in red and black, gilt turn ins, marbled and gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1243,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-83827","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"pa_auteur-hernandez-de-san-pedro-attribue-a-diego-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 Diego HERNANDEZ DE SAN PEDRO","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Denis Janot, 1541","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n