The Song of Songs a twelfth-century French version edited from ms. 173 of the Bibliotheque Municipale of Le Mans

Critical edition of a 12th Century French version of The Song of Songs, being a part romance, part allegorical interpretation of ‘The Song’, written in the north of France for a lay public; the text is preserved in only one manuscript, and never before (this edition) edited in full; the introduction presents the text from a literary point of view, considring the possibility of its attribution to Landri de Waben; b&w frontispiece plate illustration showing a page from the manuscript; the complete Medieval French text is given following the introduction; light foxing to endpapers and prelims, medium foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; some wear to edges of boards; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. Very Good.