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Old French contes dévots : redacted in English prose / by Wilson Frescoln.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection FC A100 Eg962f
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--To 1500--Translations into English.
- French literature.
- Literature, Medieval--France--Translations into English.
- Literature, Medieval.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frescoln, Wilson (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 69 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Half title: Contes dévots
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Pennsylvania : The Press of the Cheerful Snail, 1962.
- Contents:
- The tumbler of Our Lady
- The knight of the keg
- The hermit and the minstrel
- The nun who was the sacristan
- The angel and the hermit
- Anastasia, the maid without hands.
- Notes:
- "This little book was set by hand in fourteen-point Caslon, leaded two points, and printed on the Press of the Cheerful Snail. The paper is Warren's Olde Style. Twenty-six copies were printed, and teh type has been distributed."--colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection "copy was printed for the University of Pennsylvania Library"--p. [2].
- OCLC:
- 41607957
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