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CHAPBOOKS -- HIER BEGHINT de[n] droeflijcken strijt opten Berch vande[n] Roncevale in Spaengien gheschiet daer Roelant en[de] Olivier metten fleur van kerstenrijck verslaghen waren. (Antwerp), Gheprint Thantwerpen op die Lombaerde Veste, inden witten Hasewint, by my Jan van Ghelen, (1576). (36) lvs. W. large cold. woodcut on title dep. Charles the Great sitting on his throne, and woodcut printer's device on v° last leaf. 4°. Exquisitely bound by L. Claessens (c. 1890) in a dark brown mor. bind., spine raised in compartments and gilt-lettered, sides blind tooled and w. gilt ornaments in corners and centre, turn-ins gilt dec., marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (Leaf 1D1 unfortunately added in facsimile (very professionally)).
The Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass. Among those killed in the battle was a relatively obscure Frankish commander, Roland, whose death elevated him and the paladins, the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, into legend, becoming the quintessential role model for knights and also greatly influencing the code of chivalry in the Middle Ages. - No other copy found by us, but a ticket tipped in on the upper pastedown states that only 1 copy is known to exist in the Collection of Prince d'Arenberg (the whereabouts of which is not known today). - Not in Belgica Typogr.; not in Machiels, etc.€ 1600
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