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THE LADY AND LESCUYER DEBATE NEWLY DONE. Small booklet in-4, chocolate-colored jansenist morocco, 5-rib spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Duru et Chambolle, 1862). Bechtel, 55/B-55 // Brunet, II-545 // GW, 03724 // Renouard, 1074 // Rothschild, I-466 // USTC, 766394. (11f. out of 12, the last blank missing here) / a-b6 / 30 lines (except b4 in 29), goth. car. / 132 x 187 mm. A very rare edition of this poem attributable to Henri Baude, a French poet born in Moulins around 1430 and who died around 1495. A contemporary of Villon, Baude was the author of satirical moralities and poems written in a lively, bountiful style, seasoned with Gallic salt, in a picturesque, maliciously naive and often sarcastic manner. in a lively, playful style, seasoned with Gallic salt, in a picturesque, maliciously naive and often sarcastic manner (Larousse). Le Debat de la dame et de l'escuyer is a long poetic dialogue between a squire and the lady he is in love with, whom he tries to convert to his love. This poem of 67 stanzas of eight lines was also published under the title La Complainte de lescuyer à la dame. The author's name could be guessed from one line of the poem (23rd line of f. B4), in which the initial handwritten version is as follows On nous respont laissez buissoner Baude was replaced by the printed version On nous respont laissez huchier sans fraude. This peculiarity was noted by Montaiglon. It was disputed by some, including Bechtel, but to date there is nothing significant to indicate that this piece was not written by this poet. Two editions of this Débat, ours and another published by Jehan Lambert, both undated. Both are obviously very rare. The present edition bears Jehan Trepperel's mark on the first leaf, reproduced by Renouard (no. 1074). The copy comes from the La Roche Lacarelle and Lignerolles libraries. A pencil note by Jean Bourdel indicates that the copy from these libraries previously belonged to Armand Bertin and Félix Solar (no. 1082), and that the binding was altered between Solar and La Roche Lacarelle. According to our research, the Bertin-Solar copy was bound in red morocco by Koelher and described as a fine copy in the Solar sale. We can see no reason why La Roche Lacarelle would have had it rebound in a Jansenist binding by Duru et Chambolle. In any case, we have not found a copy other than the two described above, apart from the copy in the Library of Congress in Washington referenced by the USTC. All these elements make this an extremely rare edition. A very fine copy. Provenance: Baron Sosthène de La Roche Lacarelle (bookplate, April 30, 1888, no. 148) and Comte Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-17, 1894, no. 860). The last white leaf bears a ghost of an ex-dono to Anne de Dreux, but this leaf obviously comes from another volume and has been reused.
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THE LADY AND LESCUYER DEBATE NEWLY DONE. Small booklet in-4, chocolate-colored jansenist morocco, 5-rib spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Duru et Chambolle, 1862). Bechtel, 55/B-55 // Brunet, II-545 // GW, 03724 // Renouard, 1074 // Rothschild, I-466 // USTC, 766394. (11f. out of 12, the last blank missing here) / a-b6 / 30 lines (except b4 in 29), goth. car. / 132 x 187 mm. A very rare edition of this poem attributable to Henri Baude, a French poet born in Moulins around 1430 and who died around 1495. A contemporary of Villon, Baude was the author of satirical moralities and poems written in a lively, bountiful style, seasoned with Gallic salt, in a picturesque, maliciously naive and often sarcastic manner. in a lively, playful style, seasoned with Gallic salt, in a picturesque, maliciously naive and often sarcastic manner (Larousse). Le Debat de la dame et de l'escuyer is a long poetic dialogue between a squire and the lady he is in love with, whom he tries to convert to his love. This poem of 67 stanzas of eight lines was also published under the title La Complainte de lescuyer à la dame. The author's name could be guessed from one line of the poem (23rd line of f. B4), in which the initial handwritten version is as follows On nous respont laissez buissoner Baude was replaced by the printed version On nous respont laissez huchier sans fraude. This peculiarity was noted by Montaiglon. It was disputed by some, including Bechtel, but to date there is nothing significant to indicate that this piece was not written by this poet. Two editions of this Débat, ours and another published by Jehan Lambert, both undated. Both are obviously very rare. The present edition bears Jehan Trepperel's mark on the first leaf, reproduced by Renouard (no. 1074). The copy comes from the La Roche Lacarelle and Lignerolles libraries. A pencil note by Jean Bourdel indicates that the copy from these libraries previously belonged to Armand Bertin and Félix Solar (no. 1082), and that the binding was altered between Solar and La Roche Lacarelle. According to our research, the Bertin-Solar copy was bound in red morocco by Koelher and described as a fine copy in the Solar sale. We can see no reason why La Roche Lacarelle would have had it rebound in a Jansenist binding by Duru et Chambolle. In any case, we have not found a copy other than the two described above, apart from the copy in the Library of Congress in Washington referenced by the USTC. All these elements make this an extremely rare edition. A very fine copy. Provenance: Baron Sosthène de La Roche Lacarelle (bookplate, April 30, 1888, no. 148) and Comte Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-17, 1894, no. 860). The last white leaf bears a ghost of an ex-dono to Anne de Dreux, but this leaf obviously comes from another volume and has been reused.
