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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. 1st edition. A classic study in regional paleography, detailing the development and decline of the Beneventan script. A scholarly work on all aspects of the enduring script used from the 8th to the 13th centuries throughout southern Italy. Two facsimiles in the text + 15 facsimiles on 9 plates. Map of Italy showing Monte Cassino and other important Beneventan centers. Appendix listing more than 600 extant manuscripts and fragments. Clothbound quarto. 384 pp. VG in clear archival jacket. Owner signature from 1923. Endpapers browned, but text is clean. Laid-in Bernard Quaritch shipping label from 1967. A solid copy of the uncommon first edition. (Italian paleography; Medieval manuscripts.)

Edinburgh: University Press, 1948. 1st edition. A critical study of the French medieval classic. Editor's introduction, select bibliography, notes and variant readings, glossary, and appendix. Text in English and French. xxiv, 90 pp. 12mo clothbound hardcover. VG in Good dustwrapper that is chipped, faded and price-clipped. Protected by a clear archival cover.

London: Spring Books, (1970.) First published in 1963. Printed in East Germany. A study of "the excessive sexuality of the Middle Ages," an era marked by "unrestrained wildness and the practice of perversions unknown in earlier times." A frank work that argues the restrictive teachings of the Christian church led to a proliferation of illicit sex, orgies and other forbidden pleasures, and even witchcraft and the Black Mass. 320 pp., with select bibliography and index. 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. VG/VG. Some edge wear and rubbing to the jacket, but no tears or significant flaws. No price on the jacket, probably because this book was intended to be sold in various countries. "Printed in East Germany" ink stamps on the title page and the last page. Sound, tight binding. Jacket is protected by a clear archival cover.

Columbus: Ohio State University Press, (2013). 1st edition. Signed and inscribed on the title page. xiii, 253 pp. 8vo hardcover without dust jacket, as issued. Bumped corners, but Near Fine otherwise. A scholarly study of four Medieval romances and their import to the literary and historical traditions of ancient Troy. See images for contents. Uncommon signed.