Puer Centum Annorum sive Heteroclitus Repuerascentis Mundi Genius
Subtitle: der vor Augen liegend- handel- und wandlenden Welt täglich anhaltendes Kinder-Spiehl, allen in Jahren erwachsenen beyderley Geschlechts, was Stands sie auch seynd, zu treu-meynender Nachricht. Hinc Democriti Risus, Heracliti Luctus, Diogenis Censura. Welches der Fluge Democritus verlacht, der mitleydige Heraclitus beweint, der strenge Diogenes verweist. Heraus gegeben: auff der jetzigen an Jahren ziemblich veralten, an Sitten aber verjungten Welt-Kinderstuben
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1715
Place of publication: [Nuremberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: German wit and humor; German Satire; German drama; Tobacco
Other titles: Puer Centum Annorum.; Heteroclitus Repuerascentis Mundi Genius.
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Attributed to Franz Callenbach by Backer-Sommervogel, the Yale Collection of German Literature, and the VD 18.

Suggested place of publication is given by the Yale Collection of German Literature and the VD 18.

Suggested date of publication supplied by the VD 18.

According to Dünnhaupt this school drama was performed under the direction of Callenbach and staged by his students at the small Jesuit school in Wetzlar, Germany.

This play has the character Nicotinus who brings up the "Tobacco Brotherhood" and sings their song on tobacco and the brotherhood's rules.

Signatures: A-I⁸ (A1 verso blank)

Engraved head and tail pieces.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, IV: col. 902, no. 7.

Yale Collection of German Literature. German Baroque literature, 1032.

Dünnhaupt, G. Bibliographisches Handbuch der Barockliteratur, 9.4.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 10473718.

Purchase; 2017; 18-184.

Text in both German and Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 7th item of 7 with: Eclipses politico-morales. Sicht- und unsichtbare sittliche Staats-Einsternussen, denen Kindern des Liechts zur Warnung, denen Kindern dieser Welt (die sich Klüger düncken als jene) zur heil samen Verschämung treulich vorgestellet, am beliebigen Horizont entdeckt, und ans Tags-Liecht gebracht. Ad annum climactericum magnum praedominante saturno, die critico deprehensae, tubo scenico perlustrata, printed in Umbria [i.e. Nuremberg, 1714?]

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full alumtawde pigskin.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the St. Mariana Fund.