Louis-Robert Plazolles / Jean Gradassi - La Chanson de Roland - 1962

Beautiful original numbered translation of the Oxford manuscript and comments by Louis-Robert Plazolles, with splendid illuminations by Jean Gradassi, accompanied by the facsimile -

Inspired by the famous chanson de geste composed in the Middle Ages, this work recounts the exploits of Roland, Charlemagne's knight, and features the warrior, religious, and moral values that occupied a central place in the chivalric imagination of the time -

The traditional narrative opens with Charlemagne's campaigns in Spain, where the emperor wages war against the Saracens and seeks to extend his authority while defending Christendom -

After several years of conquests, the sovereign accepts the peace proposals of King Marsile, presented as the Muslim ruler of Zaragoza, but this decision triggers a series of diplomatic maneuvers and betrayals -

Ganelon, Roland's father-in-law, harbors deep hostility toward the hero and accepts a mission to Marsile, using it to plot the ruin of his rival -

Louis-Robert Plazolles / Jean Gradassi - The Song of Roland - 1962 - 2 volumes - Club du Livre -
212 pp. + 10 ff.n.ch. + 72 pp

Very good condition of the bindings, full leather clamshell case for two volumes bound in full leather accompanied by the same clamshell containing the suites, the first in quarto format with a cover bearing geometric repoussé motifs, adorned with five studs on each cover, spine with the title in gilded Gothic letters, the second volume, in-12 in full smooth leather with armorial on the front, gilded top, small split at the top of the clamshell -

Very good interior condition, color title, text in Gothic type within an ornate frame and enhanced by beautiful color illuminations by Jean Gradassi, one of 700 copies on pure linen from Le Marais, to which a facsimile of the Oxford manuscript has been added, clean text, fresh interior -

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