Le Roman du Renart (5 volumes)

Dominique Martin Meon; P. Chabaille

Paris : Treuttel et Wurtz, 1826

5 volume set (includes supplement). Rebound in modern red cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Frontispiece plates (after Desenne).  Scattered foxing throughout. Wide margins.  XX-404, 422, 439, 536 et 408 pages. Publie d'apres les manuscrits de la Bibliotheque du roi des XIIJe, XIVe et XVe siecles par M.D.M. Meon.  Le Roman de Renart is a cycle of mostly anonymous poems, composed from around 1170 until 1250.  It appears as an animal epic or, more exactly, as a parody of the songs of gesture and the courtly novels which exalted the chivalrous society.  Roman de Renart is the French version of a widespread medieval cycle of stories originating in Lorraine and known in English as Reynard the Fox. The earliest treatments in French are attributed to Pierre de Saint-Cloud in the late 12th century.  Brunet IV - 1222. 

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