Title: La patenostre des Verollez. Avec leur complaincte contre les medecins
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Small 8vo. pp. [4] (blank), [8], [4] (blank). Signatures: A4. Morocco. Gilded boards and spine, red and black panels, marbled endpapers. One of an unstated number of copies of a declared edition of 57. The present, luxurious copy is one of perhaps two printed on vellum. Inscribed to Louis [Eulard?]. Contains illustrations. Engraved vignette on title page. Every line of the Our Father (in Latin) is followed by 4 lines in French.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">According to the ‘editor’, Auguste Venant, an anagram of Gustave Aventin, the author of a bibliography on the 17th-century charlatan Tabarin, the work is a facsimile of a facetious macaronic poem on syphilis printed for Nicolas Buffet, ‘qui exerçait à Paris vers 1540’, from a unique copy belonging to the Comte de Lurde. Despite a reprint of 1855 from this text, and one of 1877 from a supposed and equally unknown edition of “Berne, 1511” (P. Kearney, The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library. London, 1981, no. 1409), no early edition has been located. The work, which is invariably cited in medical and other bibliographies as a 16th-century poem, this is almost certainly a 19th-century pastiche.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102913" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>