La Guerre et le débat entre la la[n]gue, les membres, [et] le ve[n]tre
By: cest assauoir la langue, les yeulx, les oreilles, le nez, les mains, les piedz, quilz, ne veullet plus rien bailler ne administrer au ventre, et cessent chacun de besongner.
Contributors: Silvestre, L.-C. 1792-1867.; John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180.; Abundance, Jehan d', 16th cent.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Silvestre
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Dialogues, French.; Fables, French.
Other titles: Dialogus linguae et ventris.
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 558
Type facsimile, by Louis C. Silvestre (with his afterword signed "S."), of an undated edition of 18 leaves with imprint: On les vend a Paris en la rue Neufue Nostre Dame a lenseigne sainct Nicolas.
Barbier and Brunet call this version of a not uncommon fable a translation of Dialogus linguae et ventris (for which see Goff D-163 ff.), attributing the Dialogus to John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres. Index Aureliensis 100.208 attributes La Guerre et le debat to Jehan d'Abundance, as have others.
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.