Les illustrations de Gaulle, et singularitez de Troye, contenant trois parties, avec l'epistre du roy Hector de Troye, Le traicté de la difference des scismes & des concilles, La vraye hystoire, & non fabuleuse du prince Syach Ysmail dict Sophy [...]

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Author

Jean Lemaire de Belges

Publication

1540 - On les vend … par Guillaume le Bret, Paris

Language

French

Word Count

159,000 words, Guess

Page Count

636 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL58595010M
OCLC Control Numberbib_fict_4102744_1

Description

Full title: Les illustrations de Gaulle, et singularitez de Troye, contenant trois parties, avec l'epistre du roy Hector de Troye, Le traicté de la difference des scismes & des concilles, La vraye hystoire, & non fabuleuse du prince Syach Ysmail dict Sophy. Le tout composé par excellent hystoriographe maistre Iehan le Maire de Belges, en son visuant Secretaire, & Indiciaire de tres haute & sacree princesse madame Anne de Bretaigne deux fois royne de France. Nouvellement imprimé à Paris. 3 parts in 2 8vo. volumes. T. 1: ff. [1] (blank), [11], [178]; ff. [132], [1] (blank); t. 2: ff. [1] (blank), [7], 119 [i.e. 109; f. 79 is followed by 90 onwards], [83]. Signatures: A⁸-Z⁸ & ⁴ 2A⁸-2P⁸ [last f. blank] a⁸[a8 blank] 2Q⁴ b⁸-p⁸ q⁴[q4 blank] 3a⁸-3e⁸ 3f⁴ 2a⁸-2i⁸ 2k⁶. Mottled calf, gilt spine on 5 bars, red panel, red edges, marbled pastedowns. Manuscript numbering on some pages, manuscript marks. Each part has title and colophon. Engraved initials. Printer's device at end of Book 3. In French, with some Latin. Dedicated to Anne de Bretagne. The popular and influential ‘reforgery’ of Annius by a pseudo-disciple of his, making the abstruse original easy to read for a French audience, as discussed by W. Stephens, Giants in those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism, Lincoln, 1989, pp. 142–85, and passim. Instead of dismissing the Annian forgeries, Lemaire “selectively reforged them, adopting Annius’s own deceitful methods to eliminate the as-yet little-known Etruscans from ancient history and replace them with the more familiar Celts, Gauls, and Franks. Thanks to Lemaire, Annius’s claims for Etruscan civilization would attract no further attention for several decades, while Lemaire’s pretense of fidelity to the Annian texts and commentaries would inspire numerous reforgeries”. See idem, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 173. See also R. Cooper, “Inventing Gallic Antiquities in Renaissance France,” in idem, pp. 191-214. The three parts were first published separately in 1511–13, and subsequently collected, 1524–49: the early sixteenth-century editions, all rare, are described by J. Abelard, Les illustrations de Gaule, Geneva, 1976, and listed briefly by Stephens, pp. 345–46. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102744_1" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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