Fables Choisies de J. de La Fontaine/Fabulae Selectae J. Fontani Traduites en Prose Latine Par Fénélon

Title

en_US Fables Choisies de J. de La Fontaine/Fabulae Selectae J. Fontani Traduites en Prose Latine Par Fénélon

Description

en_US Language note: Latin

en_US Original language: lat

en_US Jean de La Fontaine/ F. de Salignac Fénélon ; L'abbé J. Bézy

Creator

en_US Bézy, J.

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:26Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US Here is one of the strangest finds during a very productive weekend in Paris. In fact, Picard was my first stop, and this book was published by Picard 110 years ago! I had not known that Fénélon had translated La Fontaine into Latin. That was the first surprise. Then I had no idea that someone had written a dissertation -- for that is what I presume that this work is -- on this abstruse topic. Notice the affidavits of the Rector and Dean of the University of Paris on 159. The work seems to cover only the first seven books of La Fontaine's twelve. It is engaging to see old French friends here show up in Latin! Vulpes et Uvae. Musca et Formica. Questor et Sutor. The book has an introduction and all the scholarly appendages, including four interpaginated photographs of manuscripts (e.g., 136-37) and four pages of errata (!) at the end. Most of the pages remain uncut.

Identifier

en_US 10203 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76191

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Alphonse Picard et Fils

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1811.L3 F46 1904

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole