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Child, Harold-"Aucassin And Nicolete"-1911-Adam & Charles Black-London-7" X 9"-132 pages-Hardcover Book-With Color Illustrations-Translated and Signed by Harold Child......
Aucassin et Nicolette (12th or 13th century) is an anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the unique example of a chantefable, literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse (similar to a prosimetrum).The work probably dates from the late 12th or early 13th century, and is known from only one surviving manuscript, discovered in 1752 by medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (BnF, Fonds Français 2168).Stylistically, the chantefable combines elements of many Old French genres, such as the chanson de geste (e.g., The Song of Roland), lyric poems, and courtly novels—literary forms already well-established by the 12th century. Aucassin et Nicolette is the only known chantefable, the term itself having been derived from the story's concluding lines: "No cantefable prent fin" ("Our chantefable is drawing to a close"). The book has been autographed on the title page by Harold Child with a fountain pen in brown................BOTH BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN NICE CONDITION.
