French 257: Introduction to Research Using Rare Books and Archival Materials

French poem links/images

1528 Virgil “Juno summons the fury Allecto from ‘hellmouth’”

Medieval examples: http://discardingimages.tumblr.com/post/123878384323/hellmouths-apocalypse-normandy-ca-1330-bnf  Others from search terms: Apocalypse manuscript hellmouth

Goucher branded books ex libris Francis Borton plus Goucher “brand” on Rafael Sala Marcas de Fuego (Mexico: Monografias Bibliograficas Mexicanas, 1925) tile page.

Augustine and Bonaventure Sammelbande (1494-1494, 1497-1495)

Virgil Opera (1528)

Catálogo Colectivo de Marcas de Fuego

http://www.marcasdefuego.buap.mx:8180/xmLibris/projects/firebrand/

Other Hells—Francesca da Rimini and Cerberus in Dore-Dante: Boston pirate edition (after 1866) vs. London original 1866

Human/Animal Monsters

Grandville, Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, Rev. ed. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1867 (Sanders collection on loan to Goucher Special Collections) vs. Public and Private Life of Animals Illustrated by J.J. Grandville (N.Y.: Paddington Press, dist. Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. (Goucher Library 741.6 G755h)

Marie de France (fl. Late C12), Bisclavret (ca. 1170)

Bisclavret, the “garwolf” (werewolf) attacking his unfaithful wife in the king’s court (MS unknown)

Mary Lieske, “Monstrous transformations: loyalty and community in four medieval poems,” Literary Studies, Paper 299, The Keep: Eastern Illinois University, January 1 (2010)  

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/monstrous-transformations-loyalty-and-community-in-four-medieval-poems/

Two C16 Printed Horae: Herakles kills Chiron abducting Deineira / verso skeleton; Dance of Death marginal woodcuts captioned in French

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, illumination on Cotton Nero A.x folio 090/094 (Scan of photographic facsimile, 1923)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, illumination on Cotton Nero A.x folio 090/094 (digital surrogate at the Cotton Nero A.x Project, Calgary, CA)

The Great Enlightenment / The Great "Disenchantment": Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers / par une société de gens de lettres ; mis en ordre & publié par M. Diderot, & quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d'Alembert. A Lausanne : Chez la Société typographique, 1778-1781.   Entries for "Monstre," "Vampire," and "Loup-Garou."

The Thoroughly Modern Monster (or, Monsters R Us):

Maurice Sendak and Michael Reinhart, Mommy?, N.Y.: Michael di Capua Books / Scholastic, 2006.

Elsa Lanchester as the “Bride of Frankenstein” (James Whale, with Boris Karloff, 1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zhqCccFsGc