Title: Веда Словена. български народни песни отъ предисторично и предхристиянско доба [...] Книга I. Le Veda slave [...]
Description: Full title: Веда Словена. български народни песни отъ предисторично и предхристиянско доба. Открит въ Тракия и Македония и издалъ Стефанъ И. Верковичъ Книга I. Le Veda slave. Chants populaires des Bulgares de Thrace & de Macedoine de l’epoque préhistorique & préchrétienne. Decouverts et édites par Etienne J. Verkovitch. Volume 1. First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. xx, 545. Contemporary half leather, facing texts in Bulgarian and French. First edition of these spurious compositions, edited by Verkovič from the collections of the Bulgarian schoolteacher and folklorist Ivan Gologanov. A second volume appeared in 1881 at St Petersburg. Clearly post-Ossianic, the originator has never been certainly identified, but a recent survey (J. Bak, P.J. Geary & G. Klaniczay (eds.), Manufacturing a Past for the Present. Forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe. Leiden, 2015, p. xi) suggests that ‘in all likelihood’ the attribution to Gologanov himself, as their single-handed source, is correct.