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[MÉNAGE (Gilles) (1613-1692)]
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[MÉNAGE (Gilles) (1613-1692)]
The Origins of the French Language. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1650.
In-4 (245 x 180 mm), (16)-XXXVIII-(2)-845 pp. and (14) ff. of tables. Contemporary red morocco in the style of Duseuil, spine with grotesque decoration, gilt title, double framing of three gilt fillets on the boards, fleurons on the inner corners, decorated inner edges and borders, gilt edges on marble.
First edition of the first great etymological dictionary of the French language.
Ménage worked all his life to enrich his work, which was republished in 1694, after his death, under the title of Dictionnaire étymologique. In it, he shows, in the absence of a sure method, a curiosity and an insight hitherto unknown, and especially a possession of the various states of Latin, of the Romance languages, and of several other languages which make him one of the promoters of comparative philology. The dedicatory epistle constitutes in itself a true philological manifesto: "To say that it renews from top to bottom the theories put forward before 1650 would be an exaggeration. [...] However, on many theoretical points, Ménage is right: he believes in the multiplicity of origins of French| he asserts very moderately the indirect filiation of French to Hebrew and he integrates, for the first time with force and conviction, the medieval language and the modern world to scientific research. (Jean-Louis Tritter, " Un manifeste philologique : L'Epistre dédicatoire des Origines de la Langue Françoise, de Ménage ", Cahiers de la littérature du XVIIe siècle, n° 6, 1984, pp. 419-424).
A very fine copy in contemporary red morocco.
Copies bound in morocco are very rare. Tchemerzine mentions only one in calf, Brunet reports as the most beautiful a copy in tan calf.
PROVENANCE
François-Pierre-Louis d'Estavayer, chevalier de Mollondin (1681-1736) (armorial bookplate, cf. Hubert de Vevey, Les anciens ex-libris fribourgeois armoriés, 1923, n° 47)| Louis-Auguste de Pourtalès (1796-18170) (handwritten inscription signed: "acheté chez Meyri 1853").
REFERENCES
Tchemerzine IV, 667| Brunet III, 615| Cioranescu, XVIIe, n° 46788.
The Origins of the French Language. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1650.
In-4 (245 x 180 mm), (16)-XXXVIII-(2)-845 pp. and (14) ff. of tables. Contemporary red morocco in the style of Duseuil, spine with grotesque decoration, gilt title, double framing of three gilt fillets on the boards, fleurons on the inner corners, decorated inner edges and borders, gilt edges on marble.
First edition of the first great etymological dictionary of the French language.
Ménage worked all his life to enrich his work, which was republished in 1694, after his death, under the title of Dictionnaire étymologique. In it, he shows, in the absence of a sure method, a curiosity and an insight hitherto unknown, and especially a possession of the various states of Latin, of the Romance languages, and of several other languages which make him one of the promoters of comparative philology. The dedicatory epistle constitutes in itself a true philological manifesto: "To say that it renews from top to bottom the theories put forward before 1650 would be an exaggeration. [...] However, on many theoretical points, Ménage is right: he believes in the multiplicity of origins of French| he asserts very moderately the indirect filiation of French to Hebrew and he integrates, for the first time with force and conviction, the medieval language and the modern world to scientific research. (Jean-Louis Tritter, " Un manifeste philologique : L'Epistre dédicatoire des Origines de la Langue Françoise, de Ménage ", Cahiers de la littérature du XVIIe siècle, n° 6, 1984, pp. 419-424).
A very fine copy in contemporary red morocco.
Copies bound in morocco are very rare. Tchemerzine mentions only one in calf, Brunet reports as the most beautiful a copy in tan calf.
PROVENANCE
François-Pierre-Louis d'Estavayer, chevalier de Mollondin (1681-1736) (armorial bookplate, cf. Hubert de Vevey, Les anciens ex-libris fribourgeois armoriés, 1923, n° 47)| Louis-Auguste de Pourtalès (1796-18170) (handwritten inscription signed: "acheté chez Meyri 1853").
REFERENCES
Tchemerzine IV, 667| Brunet III, 615| Cioranescu, XVIIe, n° 46788.