Etudes rabelaisiennes


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Rabelais in His Writings


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French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)


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This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.




Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)


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'Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours' brings together the original texts with original English translations of two closely related primary sources on Renaissance colour symbolism. 'Le Blason de toutes armes et scutz' (The blazon of all arms and shields) was completed about 1420 by Jean Courtois (c. 1375-1436), the Sicily Herald, and printed in Paris in 1495. The second, 'Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livr es, et devises' (The blazon of colours in arms, liveries and devices), by Gilles Corrozet (1510-68), was published in Paris in 1527 by Pierre Le Brodeur. They were first two books on colour to be printed in Europe, and are now available in English for the first time in five centuries. Roy Osborne is an artist, educator and historian, and author of books on colour. He was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.




Le blason dans le Furetière


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Cet ouvrage reprend tous les articles du Furetière (première encyclopédie en langue française, édition de 1691), articles se rapportant au blason. Il offre une vue de la représentation qu'un érudit, contemporain de Louis XIV, pouvait se faire sur ce sujet. L'agencement a été fait de telle sorte qu'il puisse satisfaire la curiosité des héraldistes initiés tout en satisfaisant les lecteurs qui seraient intéressés par une simple promenade sur ce sujet, par une ballade dans l'esprit du Grand Siècle ou dans l'atmosphère si particulière qui émane de ce dictionnaire. Le lecteur trouvera en fin d'ouvrage un index alphabétique des termes ainsi que des noms propres.




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Renaissance Colour Symbolism


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"Renaissance Colour Symbolism brings together texts and translations of the four earliest printed books on the meaning of colours: Le Blason de toutes armes et éscutz [The Blazon of All Arms and Escutcheons] (1495) by Jean Courtois, the Sicily Herald; Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livrées et devises [The Blazon of Colours in Arms, Liveries and Devices] (1527) by Gilles Corrozet; Libellus de coloribus [Booklet on Colours] (1528) by Antonio Telesio (Thylesius); and Del significato de' colori [On the Signification of Colours] (1535) by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato. Parts of three other early books are included, from The Accedens of Armory (1562) by Gerard Legh; Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et archittetura [Treatise on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture] (1584) by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; and A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge and Buildinge (1598) by Richard Haydocke"--Provided by publisher.




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Bernard Quaritch


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