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> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 12:25:13 +0000
> To: scottf at okom.net
> From: "J.A. McGowan" <jam at goshawk.clara.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: minstrel: Seeking stuff on troubadours and Dylan
> Cc: minstrel at pbm.com
> 
> >
> >If you wish to learn Old Provencal in order to read the Troubadours in the
> >original language, the only book I am aware of
> >is:
> >
> >An Old Provencal Primer, by Nathaniel B. Smith and Thomas G. Bergin. Garland
> >Publishing, Inc. New York And
> >London (1984) ISBN 0-8240-9030-6
> >
> >William D. Paden was supposed to have published an Introduction to Old
> Occitan
> >in 1995, but the latest information I
> >have is that the release date for this has been pushed back to Summer of
> 1998.
> 
> If you have Latin, there is *The Donatz Proensals of Uc Faidit*, ed.
> J.H.Marshall, Oxford University Press, 1969, ISBN 19 713133 6.  I quote
> from the flap:  " the *Donatz Proensals* of Uc Faidit, a grammar of Old
> Provencal composed in Italy c. 1240, is the earliest surviving attempt to
> compose a full grammar of a Romance vernacular within a framework parallel
> to that of traditional Latin grammars."
> 
> It also contains an Index of Proper names which heralds might like!
> 
> 
> 
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