Title: History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin; Translated from the Latin in Spanheim’s Lives of Ecclesiastical Writers
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Full title:</b> History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin; Translated from the Latin in Spanheim’s Lives of Ecclesiastical Writers: together with the most celebrated ancient Spanish Ballads relating to the twelve peers of France, mentioned in Don Quixote; with English metrical versions, By Thomas Rodd. In two volumes. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2 volumes in one 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. viii, 56, xiv, [2], 275, [1]; pp. [4], 331, [1] pages, f. [1] (blank). Signatures: [a]4 b-d8 e8 f4 B-S8 T2. Morocco. Gilted filet on tooled boards. Gilt spine, red lettering panel, marbled edges and pastedowns.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each volume has its own title page. Added title page for the ballads in volume 1: "Floresta de varios romances sacados de las historias antiguas de los Doce Pares de Francia. Por Damian Lopez de Tortajada. The Flower of the ballads of the Twelve Peers of France, taken from ancient histories: with English metrical versions, by Thomas Rodd." Title page of v. 1 is a cancel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">A translation of the first printing (1566) of the 11th-century life of Charlemagne and Roland, falsely ascribed to Archbishop Turpin of Reims (died c. 800). F. Spanheim's Summa historiae ecclesiasticae ad saeculum XVI was published in Leiden in 1689. The ps-Turpin is in English prose, with a preface; the ancient ballads are in facing Spanish and English.
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