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Gallica Volume 33 RewRiting ARthuRiAn RomAnce in RenAissAnce FRAnce Gallica issn 1749–091X general editor: sarah Kay Gallica aims to provide a forum for the best current work in medieval and Renais- sance French studies. Literary studies are particularly welcome and preference is given to works written in english, although publication in French is not excluded. Proposals or queries should be sent in the first instance to the editor, or to the publisher, at the addresses given below; all submissions receive prompt and informed consideration. Professor sarah Kay, Department of French, new York university, 13–19 univer- sity Place, 6th floor, New York, NY 10003, USA the editorial Director, gallica, Boydell & Brewer Ltd., Po Box 9, woodbridge, suffolk iP12 3DF, uK Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the end of this book. RewRiting ARthuRiAn RomAnce in RenAissAnce FRAnce FRom mAnuscRiPt to PRinteD BooK JAne h. m. tAYLoR D. s. BReweR © Jane h. m. taylor 2014 All Rights Reserved. except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The right of Jane H. M. Taylor to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2014 D. s. Brewer, cambridge isBn 978–1–84384–365–8 D. s. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd Po Box 9, woodbridge, suffolk iP12 3DF, uK and of Boydell & Brewer inc. 668 mt hope Avenue, Rochester, nY 14620–2731, usA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library the publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of uRLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Papers used by Boydell & Brewer Ltd are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests Printed and bound in great Britain by cPi group (uK) Ltd, croydon, cR0 4YY For John, with love contents List of illustrations viii Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii introduction 1 1 Pierre sala, Poacher 11 2 ‘Books Printed here’: the Business of the Print shop 38 3 ‘A condition of survival’: Lancelot and Tristan 61 4 ‘skimble-skamble stuff’: Meliadus, Merlin, Greaal 91 5 ‘imperious seductions’: Giglan and Perceval 119 6 ‘satyric scenes in Landscape style’: Amadis de Gaule 147 7 ‘Fruitlesse historie’: maugin’s Tristan, Rigaud’s Lancelot 183 Afterword 215 Appendix 1: Rough chronology of Publication 217 Appendix 2: Sainct Greaal (1516) v. Vulgate Queste 221 Appendix 3: structure of the Roman de Giglan 233 Bibliography 241 index 269 iLLustRAtions Fig. 1 grail frontispiece, from a book of hours published by Vérard 2 in 1506 Fig. 2 guinevere talking to courtiers, from Pierre sala’s Yvain 32 Fig. 3 tristan and Yseut in a garden, from Pierre sala’s Tristan 34 Fig. 4 Ysaÿe le Triste: the besieged draw up provisions in a basket 36 Fig. 5 Vérard presents Lancelot to charles Viii, from his 1494 39 edition of Lancelot Fig. 6 Lancelot and guinevere surprised by gauvain and his 64 brothers, from the 1488 editio princeps of the Lancelot, vol. ii Fig. 7 A Renaissance print shop in operation, from Le Doctrinal 72 sans macule Fig. 8 Lancelot and morgue la Fée, with Lancelot’s paintings 82 behind them, from Vérard’s 1494 edition of Lancelot, vol. ii Fig. 9 Vérard’s Prophéties de Merlin: mise en page 103–4 Fig. 10 Amadis de Gaule, Book i, editio princeps, title-page 148 Fig. 11 Amadis de Gaule, Book V: esplandian on the Rocher de la 154 Demoiselle Enchanteresse Fig. 12 Amadis de Gaule, Book iV: plan of the Isle Ferme 179 Fig. 13 maugin’s Nouveau Tristan, title-page 201
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