TINAN (Jean Le Barbier de Tinan dit Jean de) (1874-1898) - Catulle.

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TINAN (Jean Le Barbier de Tinan dit Jean de) (1874-1898) - Catulle.
Signed autograph manuscript entitled "Catullus" (s.l.) 1895. 46 pp. (including false title and title page) large in-4 and (6pp.) small in-8. In-4,red morocco, spine ribbed, gilt author and title, 6 gilt fillets framed on the back covers, gilt head, leaves mounted on tabs (Canape. R. D. - dated 1927). Rare manuscript in which Jean de Tinan translates poems by C.V. Catulle (84 - 54 BC). According to the indications on the title page, this manuscript is a first draft, with many corrections in ink or pencil. Our manuscript consists of what one can imagine to be a cover bearing the title "Catulle", a false title page "T. [Tinan] - Catullus - Fragment of a translation - 1895", a title page "Les poesies amoureuses de Catulle, première version", the epigraph in homage to Stéphane Mallarmé's Plainte d'Automne (Vers et Prose, 1893), the preface signed "Jean L B de Tinan", 6 pages of notes, and finally the poems. The poems are divided into four groups "Lesbia", "D'autres", "Juventius" and "Diverses". We count a total of 29 poems as page 14 "To the sparrow of Lesbia: - Sparrow, delights of my friend, - with whom she plays, which she holds in her breast, - to whom she gives the tip of her finger when he asks for it, - exciting the cruel bite when, has the bright object of my desire" or page 27 "To Ipsithilla: - Please, my sweet Ipsithilla - my delights, my beauty - order that I come to you in the middle of the day. - And if you command it, do me this grace - let no one close the threshold board - and do not like to go away - but stay at home & prepare yourself for nine spasms * in a row (...)" etc. The preface and six of the twenty-nine poems were published (with variants) in the ephemeral journal Pan, No. 4-5, March 1896.
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