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555 - TABOUROT, Etienne, Seigneur des Accords - Les Bigarrures et …
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TABOUROT, Etienne, Seigneur des Accords - Les Bigarrures et Touches du Seigneur des Accords. Avec les apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes Dijonnoises. Dernière édition, reveuë & de beaucoup augmentée. Rouen, Loys du Mesnil, 1628. 5 parts in 1 vol. small in-12, Les Bigarrures: (12) ff. n.c., 181 ff., Le quatrième des Bigarrures: (4) ff. n.c., 50 ff., Les Touches: 64 ff. misquoted, Les Escraignes: 59 ff. (lacking the last ff. with the printer's mark) misquoted. 2 Portraits of Tabourot at 35, and of Gaulard after Nicolas Hoey . Numerous woodcuts including 26 medallions offering rebus, ex. trimmed short, 18th c. fawn calf, smooth spine decorated. TCH V, 834. ADAMS, RAWLES, SAUNDERS (French emblem books) F. 555. Portrait of Tabourot and 26 medallions fig. woodcut rebus. As the title indicates, the work deals with all sorts of subjects: the invention and usefulness of letters, Picardy rebuses, equivocations, puns and other word connections; anagrams, various skills in the art of versification (retrograde verse, numeral verse, reported verse, lettered verse, acrostics, macaronic verse, etc.), tachygraphic abbreviations, epitaphs. The second part of Bigarrures is more serious: it contains first of all a few useful features for the instruction of children, then a chapter on the change of nickname, another on particularities relating to French verse; it is here that the author explains the motto of his people, from which he made his pen name, Seigneur des Accords. The work ends with a chapter on false sorcerers and their impostures. Les Touches (P. Richer, 1585) is a collection of commonplaces in the form of epigrams. Les Apophtegmes ou contes facétieux du sieur Gaulard, gentilhomme de la Franche-Comté bourguignonne, appeared in 1614 with Escraignes dijonnaises in P., published by Jean Richer. By this time, the author had already been dead (1590) for several years. Facetious tales have long been very popular. Escraignes are, in the literal sense, mud huts built by the people of the towns or suburbs to make the winter evenings less chilly; they entertained themselves by telling stories, which were generally quite risqué. Tabourot, who is not afraid of sauciness and who, already in Les Bigarrures, has shown his taste for salty jokes, does not hesitate to describe in the crudest terms the popular tales enjoyed by the common people of his time. The Escraignes are invaluable as a record of the Burgundian spirit at the end of the 16th century. Even today, they continue to find readers.
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About the sale JEAN DEMAUX LIBRARY - DAY 2
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