madden sir frederic (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 557, (ix)pp. Green decorated cover. A fine, as new copy. The first tale concerns the Weddiung of Sir Gawain to the Loathly Lady known only from a hastily written 16th century manuscript. The story of the Turk is from MS. Percy 212. Both tales were transcreipted by Sir Frederic Madden in the early 19th century. James Owens rendered the text into modern English, maintaining the meter and rhyme scheme of the originals. .

Zustand: New. In.

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Zustand: Fair. 1866. No Edition Remarks. 466 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound in leather with cloth covered boards. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Vol. I. Noticeable staining, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Hinges are moderately cracked causing boards to be loose. Mild creasing to gutters. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild chipping, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Zustand: Good. 1866. No Edition Remarks. 511 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound in leather with cloth covered boards. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Vol. II. Latin text. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. Visibly more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm; heavier to front hinge. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild chipping, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft rubbing and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

12mo, 2 pp. Ten lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Jones's letter has been forwarded to him, but he cannot give him 'the information you are seeking', so he has sent to letter on to 'Mr. of the British Museum, asking him to reply to it'.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Privy Purse expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry the Eighth, afterwards Queen Mary. With a memoir of the Princess, and notes.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Madden, Frederic; br/b/b 1831.br/b/b ccv, 285 p. ; 8º.br/b/b G.5177.br/.

12mo: 1 p. Dimensions of leaf 11 x 9 cm. Twelve lines of text, headed 'P. 320'. In poor condition: grubby and aged. Laid down on piece of grey paper removed from autograph book. 2 cm closed tear in bottom left-hand corner affecting a couple of words of text. Difficult hand. Criticising a note, giving references to three works. Ends 'I don't see any use in printing this letter - but Sir F. Madden will tell you better. | JM -'.

4to. pp. xiv, 94. frontis. portait & 3 full-page text illus. wrs. First Edition.

Zustand: Very Good. Colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 511, 16 pp. Small stain to the fore edge, else in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LATIN.

First Edition. Worn set bound in quarter leather over paper boards with a gilt blocked title to the spines. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp cornered. Minor library marks remain. Provenance; from the Hereford Free Public Library bookplate and library marks. Series; Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores ; no. 44. Physical description; 3 vols. (plates) : facsims. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in Latin, introduction in English. Contents; Vol. 1. (A.D. 1067-1189) -- v. 2. (A.D. 1189-1245) -- v. 3. (A.D. 1246-1253). Subjects; Historical Documents. Great Britain History 91066-1485). Great Britain History Medieval period, (1066-1485). Great Britain History (1066-1687). Great Britain History (1066-1485). Great Britain History Medieval period, (1066-1485) ; Sources. Great Britain -- History -- Sources. Great Britain History To 1485. Genres; Chronicles. History. 4 Kg.

Second edition. Reprinted from "Archaelogia" vol. xxxvii, pp. 113-123 with some corrections, first separately printed in 1837 by J. B. Nichols and Son. [18] pp., facsimile of Shakespeare's autograph on the title. 1 vols. 8vo. Jaggard p. 204. Jaggard p. 204 Original printed wrappers with publisher's advertisements on the back wrapper and interiors of both wrappers. Wrappers chipped, browned, with some losses, separating at spine, some library markings on verso of title, else very good [18] pp., facsimile of Shakespeare's autograph on the title. 1 vols. 8vo Second edition. Reprinted from "Archaelogia" vol. xxxvii, pp. 113-123 with some corrections, first separately printed in 1837 by J. B. Nichols and Son.

8vo (154 x 258 mm). 3 volumes. LIII, (3), 439, (1) pp. (4), 643 pp. (4), 659 pp. With a folding engraved plate of MS Cotton Caligula A. ix. Publisher's blue grey paper covered boards with printed spine labels. A rare first printing of the earliest modern edition of La amon's Brut, the first work in English to tell the tales of King Arthur and his knights. Although its contents are legendary rather than historical, it also represents the first large-scale text devoted to Britain's past to be composed in English (sometime between c. 1190 and c. 1215) since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. - The poem survives in only two manuscripts, BL Cotton Caligula A. IX and Otho C. XIII, whose often rather different readings are presented in here parallel columns. A modern English translation is at the bottom of the page, and comprehensive notes and a glossary at the end of Vol. III. Madden's preparation of the text was the first modern edition of La amon's work, and stands as a milestone in the scholarship of early Middle English. - La amon based his text largely on the Roman de Brut, written in Old French by the Norman poet Wace in c. 1155. Wace was in turn inspired by the Historia regum Brittaniae (History of the Kings of Britain) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was a sensational success in introducing the "Matter of Britain" (i.e. the Arthurian and associated legends) to the European literary consciousness. La amon's achievement was not merely introducing this material in English, but expanding it: at over 16,000 lines, it is longer than the work of Wace or Geoffrey, and treats the legend of Arthur at greater length. - The poem begins with a description of La amon's wish to write the history of England and the sources he used, naming Bede, St Alban, St Augustine of Canterbury and Wace. From there it passes to the mythical tale of Brutus of Troy, a descendant of Aeneas who supposedly settled in Britain and gave it its name and continues up through the Arthurian material to the historical British king Cadwalla, whose defeat in battle by St Oswald, King of Northumbria, is recorded by Bede in 634. In spite of La amon's stated desire to write England's history, the focus is overwhelmingly on the Celtic Britons. - The language of the poem is a striking example of Middle English in its earlier stages, a little over a century after the Norman Conquest of 1066 put an end to Old English as a written standard, a position it had held since the reign of Alfred the Great in the ninth century, and the introduction of French as the language of the ruling class. La amon uses the older English alliterative form of verse rather than French-style rhyme, and his vocabulary is notably native, with only some 150 French loan-words appearing in the text. - At the time of Madden's work, all of Europe was turning to the medieval past to reach an understanding of the origins of nationhood and its connections to language: ascertaining a time at which the fusion of Old English and Old French produced something which might be seen as the beginnings of modern English went hand-in-hand with developing an origin-story for the English nation. Walter Scott's phenomenally successful, but wildly historically inaccurate novel Ivanhoe of 1819 had already captured the public's imagination on this question. In his introduction, Madden argues that the English language had been changing for some time before the Norman Conquest, which itself added effectively little into the mix, and drawing on the poem as an illustration of a stage in the history of English which he calls "Semi-Saxon". - Long the standard and reprinted many times, first printings of Madden's edition of La amon, particularly ones in good condition, are highly rare on the market, with Rare Book Hub listing the last three sales of copies in 2021, 1971 and 1957. - A fine copy of a landmark work in the history of the English language and of medieval literature. - Light wear to board edges and extremities, some webbing visible at outer joints. Some occasional foxing, but interior overwhelmingly clean and crisp, to all appearances unread. A good, unrestored copy. - All three volumes stamped inside with the name of Gerald M. Bordman (1931-2011), American musical and theatre historian who did his PhD in medieval literature.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Full title: Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Najira, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c. to England, to Pay his Court to Henry VIII, in 1543-4: Written by his Secretary, Pedro de Gante. Translated as closely as possible from the original ms. in the British Museum, formerly in the Library of Iriarte, the Spanish Poet, with Notes. Extracted from the journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, the article comprising pp. 344 to 357. Quarto, 240 x 300 mm. [8] ff. A Near Fine copy. Contemporary blue paper wrappers with printed label. Unopened. Some chipping to edges of wrappers, and a bit of dustsoiling, but a very clean copy overall. Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, was "a giant of Victorian scholarship" whose work as an editor, translator, and conservator helped preserve and disseminate some of the most important English stories in history (ODNB). He was, crucially, responsible for the preservation of the story of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, having rediscovered the sole surviving manuscript of the Arthurian legend in the 1820s. Madden translated the story and secured its publication in 1839, re-introducing the legend to nineteenth-century readers and, ultimately, influencing writers like J.R.R. Tolkien. He also carried out conservation work on the Cotton MS, which contains the only known copy of Beowulf, and edited an 1847 edition of Layamon's Brut, "the most important of the English riming chronicles," which contains the first appearance of any Arthurian legends in the English language (Long, English Literature). In the 1540s, the Spanish peer Juan Esteban Manrique de Lara y Cardona, the 3rd Duke of Nájera (1504 - 1558), visited England to meet privately with King Henry VIII. In his introductory paragraphs, Madden writes that there are few English records of the Duke's visit, and none of his meeting with the King; the record of Pedro de Gante, the Duke's secretary, then, stands as the only surviving account of the meeting, and of his introduction to Queen Catherine Parr and Princess Mary. Near Fine.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Three volumes in one, octavo (leaves measuring 237 x 153 mm). liii, [3], 439, [1]; [iv], 643, [1]; [iv], 659, [1]. A Very Good copy of a work that is scarce in commerce. Complete with folding frontispiece ("Facsimile of M.S. Cott. Calig. A.ix fol. 1") and one other plate, which is sometimes lacking ("Facsimile of Ms. Cotton Otho C. XIII fol. 92"). The two plates illustrate the only surviving manuscripts containing Layamon's Brut. Rebound in twentieth century quarter tan polished calf over marbled boards, preserving all three half-titles and title pages. Margin of second plate trimmed in the rebinding process, not affecting the image or text. Slight edgewear and a couple small chips to paper over boards. Pencil notation and small numerical ticket to lower pastedown. Quite clean throughout aside from moderate foxing to first and last two gatherings and the title-pages. Layamon's Brut, "the most important of the English riming chronicles," contains the first appearance of any Arthurian legends in the English language (Long, English Literature). Written around the year 1200 by the English priest Layamon, the Brut attempts to merge Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People with Wace's Brut, itself a loose French translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain. However, Layamon's work cannot be seen as a mere translation any more than Mallory's Le Mort d'Arthur can: while Wace's Brut was only 15,000 lines, Layamon expanded his version to double its original length. The lengthy narrative poem starts with the destruction of Troy, the flight of Aeneas into Italy and the founding of Britain by Brutus. A full thirty thousand lines are devoted to the legend of King Aurthur and his knights. Thus, Layamon introduced Arthur and his knights to the English people, embellishing the legends with more detail and vivacity than had been seen before. Layamon's Brut now survives in only two manuscripts, Cotton Caligula A. IX and Otho C. XIII, both housed at the British Library. Sir Frederic Madden (1801 - 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, was "a giant of Victorian scholarship" whose work as an editor, translator, and conservator helped preserve and disseminate some of the most important English stories in history, including Beowulf (ODNB). He was, crucially, responsible for the preservation of the story of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, having rediscovered the sole surviving manuscript of the Arthurian legend in the 1820s. Madden translated the story and secured its publication in 1839, re-introducing the legend to nineteenth-century readers and, ultimately, influencing writers like J.R.R. Tolkien. Very Good.