Historia delas amors e vida del cavaller Paris e de Viana filla del dalfi de França (Paris and Viana).

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Diego de Gumiel (Printer)

Origin: Barcelona, XV c.
Biblioteca de Catalunya. Coedition.

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10-V-38
Facsimile. Incunabula. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-87988-47-4
978-84-87988-47-9
4º
12,5 x 19,5 cm.
29+3 crd.
58+6 crd.
Catalan.
Ca. 1497.
29th September 1997.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Literature.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish or in Catalan conducted by Antoni Ferrando Francés (Professor of the Faculty of Philology of the Universitat de València). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua V.
Only known copy in the world. In colour.

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The Historia de las amors e vida del cavaller Paris e de Viana is an erotic-chivalresque novel, whose plot was summed up thus by Ramón Menéndez Pidal: "it is reduced to a very simple fable of consistent and pursued love, enlivened with the usual memories of the Crusades and forced captivity in Palestine".

This incunabula in colour, with no typographic indications, attributed to Diego de Gumiel's printing house around 1497, and here reproduced, is from the Biblioteca de Catalunya and is the only known copy in the world. Written in Catalan.

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ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
FRH Historical romance
HBJD European history
HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEJ Cataluña, Autonomous Community
2ADC Catalan
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500