Le Chevallier Tondal
– Out of Print –
Years ago, I was astonished, amazed and amused when viewing a pre-Dante medieval book at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Les Visions du chevalier Tondal. This Burgundian 15th-century book, originally written in Latin by the Irish monk Marcus at Regensburg in 1149, illustrates terrible punishments for the wealthy knight Tondal for a lengthy list of sins. Students were asked to choose excerpts from this text and write a commentary about modern sin and punishment, as a gloss of the Tondal, keeping a sense of humor about them. We were saved by Dr. Roger S. Wieck of the Pierpont Morgan Library, who came to our rescue with translations and correlated them with the original old French text. This book is an extraordinary effort by students who experienced the sin of over-committing and suffered the torments of too many print runs. But each had a vision and wanted to see it through. The size is 9.75″ wide x 13″ tall. An amazing 60 copies were printed and bound in wood boards with a brass clasp by the exhausted members of the Typography class of Fall 1999.
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