The Troubadours eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about The Troubadours.

The Troubadours eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about The Troubadours.

A list of corrections to this list is given by Groeber in Boehmer’s Romanische Studien, vol. ii. 1875-77, Strassburg.  In vol. ix. of the same is Groebers’ study of troubadour MSS. and the relations between them.

A. Stimming, Provenzaliscke Literatur in Groeber’s Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie, Strassburg, 1888, vol. ii. part ii. contains useful bibliographical notices.

A. Restori, Letteratura provenzale, Milan, 1891 (Manuali Hoepli), an excellent little work.

A. Jeanroy, Les origines de la poesie lyrique en France, 2nd edit., Paris, 1904.

J. Anglade, Les troubadours, Paris, 1908, an excellent and trustworthy work, in popular style, with a good bibliography.

J. H. Smith, The troubadours at Home, 2 vols., New York, 1899; popularises scientific knowledge by impressions of travel in Southern France, photographs, and historical imagination:  generally stimulating and suggestive, Most histories of French literature devote some space to Provencal; e.g.  Suchier & Birch-Hirschfeld, Geschichte der franzoesischen Litteratur, Leipsic, 1900.  The works of Millot and Fauriel are now somewhat antiquated. Trobador Poets, Barbara Smythe, London, 1911, contains an introduction and translations from various troubadours.

DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS

F. Raynouard, Lexique roman, 6 vols., Paris, 1838-1844, supplemented by.

E. Levy, Provenzalisches supplement-Woerterbuch, Leipsic, 1894, not yet completed, but indispensable.

E. Levy, Petit dictionnaire provencal-francais, Heidelberg, 1908.

J. B. Roquefort, Glossaire de la langue romane, 3 vols., Paris, 1820.

W. Meyer-Luebke, Grammaire des langues romanes, French translation of the German, Paris, 1905.

C. H. Grandgent, An outline of the phonology and morphology of old Provencal, Boston, 1905.

H. Suchier, Die franzoesiche und provenzalische Sprache in Groeber’s Grundriss.  A French translation, Le Francais et le Provencal, Paris, 1891.

TEXTS

The following chrestomathies contain tables of grammatical forms (except in the case of Bartsch) texts and vocabularies.

Altprovenzalisches Elementarbuch, O. Schultz-Gora, Heidelberg, 1906, an excellent work for beginners.

Provenzalische Chrestomathie, C. Appel, Leipsic, 1907, 3rd edit.

Manualetto provenzale, V. Crescini, Padua, 1905, 2nd edit.

Chrestomathie provencal, K. Bartsch, re-edited by Koschwitz, Marburg, 1904.

The following editions of individual troubadours have been published.

Alegret. Annales du Midi, no. 74.

Arnaut Daniel.  U. A. Canello, Halle, 1883.

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