L’image du livre dans la prose narrative de la Renaissance Un accessoire ­d’auctorialité ?

This article studies diverse representations of the book-object in engravings accompanying Renaissance editions of prose vernacular accounts. It shows how the figuration of the book crystallises the ­complex dynamics associating oral and written, individual reading and collective reading, and the ­construction of the self and projection for the other. Furthermore, the book ends up becoming, through diverse figurative representations, an accessory of authoriality.