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Providing an humorous and interesting view on daily student life at the German Universities during the 16th and 17th centuries

[SATIRE - GERMAN - UNIVERSITIES].
Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tam lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quam lectu verè digna & utila, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.

18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.

18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.

18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.

18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.

18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.



(Rostock?, no pr.), 1627. 17 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, some parts uncut. 18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials.

Very rare collection of popular humorous texts (facetiae), reprinted many times in the 17th centuries. The collection was first published in 1600 containing only twelve titles and was later placed on the Papal Index. The collection mainly consists of sham dissertations, mock disputations and so-called Macaronic poetry, normally a form of light or comic poetry in which foreign (usually Latin) words or phrases are introduced into vernacular sentences and vernacular words tricked out with Latin inflections, making intentionally barbarous neologisms. The parts of the collection of facetiae - mostly also published separately - were often published with false imprints and fictitious author names, for example 'Dionysius Bacchus' & 'Blasius Multibibus' as the authors of a dissertation on drinking. The 17 parts are mostly about sex and drinking, mostly in Latin but one of them in German (nr. 2) and together they provide a humorous, interesting and wonderful view on daily student live at the German Universities during the 16th and 17th centuries:

- The collection is preceded by the general title (Facetiae facetiarum ...), printed in red and black with only the year of printing: '1627' (verso blank), followed by a leaf with citations from Pliny, Aristotle, Plato and Aenea Silvius.
- 1. Christophorus FAHRENHORST, De Bancorottorum pessimo atque horrendo scelere practico dissertatio politica. Rostock, Aug. Ferberus, 1625. With title printed in red and black. (12), 83, (6) pp. The work is dedicated to the Magistrate of Lubeck and is written in Latin with some German citations and marginalia. The text on bankrupts (pp. 1-83) is followed by laudatory poems by Hiob Lepner, Caspar Blisener, Christ. Wilkau, and Theod. Jodocides.
- 2. Hans PUMBSACK, Das is ein Gespräch zwischen zweyen Persohnen Philomusum und Hansen Pumbsack, worinnen nicht allein für Augen gestellet, wie nerrisch und ungeschickt diejenigen, so den Freyen Kunsten zuwieder seyn, von den Gelahrten in gemain ...  1627. (24) pp. A dialogue in German on (false) scholarship.
- 3. M. OGRAVITTUS & Dacrion CHIPLICUS, Materia merè magistralis multisciorum studiosorum magistrorumqve multivas miserias maleqve moratos magistrorum musis merentium momos, mutilatores, multa mala magistris mentientes, magis tamen mutos in Musis quàm mugiles, merulas & mullos, magistraliter meritoque memorans & magnificans. Praesidente ... M. Ogravitto ... A pariter docto et memorabili respondente Dn. Dacrione Chiplico, ... In inclyto Brabantiae collegio de Hosport magistraliter disputata & defensa ... 1627. (32) pp. The Latin text is divided in 132 propositions. The first edition was published in 1598.
- 4. Volucrinia LEPIDA & Hasio LEFLER, Theses de cochleatione ejusque venenosa contagione, et multiplicibus speciebus, quas sub praeside Hasione Leflero Narragonensi pro privato ... defendet Volucrina Lepida Stutzerensis ... 1627. (12) pp. With woodcut of a noble couple. The Latin text of this sham dissertation is divided into 41 propositions.
- 5. Onuphrius PALAEOTTUS & Lucas DE PENNA, Disputatio physiolegistica,de jure & natura pennalium, per multas quotidianas decisorias conclusiones, cum valentiis & fallentiis, ex generali Universitatum studenticarum styli observantia collecta: ad bonum omnium modernorum practicantium in foro vexatili tam active quam passive versantium ... 1627. (16) pp. This is a popular mock dissertation on student 'Pennal' usages which includes German & macaronic passages. The 'dissertation' was published for the first time in 1511 (=1611) in Leipzig and is divided in 100 'theses'. Many editions followed till far into the 18th century; also incorporated in the Nugae venales ... (1642).
- 6. Cunradus TRENTACINQUIUS & Joachim Eberartus AB HANNOW, Bonus mulier, sive centuria juridica practica quaestionum illustrium: de mulieribus vel uxoribus; ... Fiet disputationis initium in majori collegio JCtorum Idus Quintil. ... hilaribus Martinianis, festivitatibusque bacchanaliorum ... quandiu quis poterit, & alicui videbitur. (Rostock, Aug. Ferber?), 1627. (18) pp. The Latin text (apart from a 'Vermahnung und Warnung D. Martini Lutheri, an die Jusristen, auff dem Predigstul zu Wittenberg' on pp. 9-10) of this sham dissertation is divided into 99 'theses'.
- 7. Georg RITTERSHAUSEN, Jucunda de osculis dissertatio historica, philologica. 1626. (36) pp. This is a curious 'historical' sham dissertation on kissing, divided in 17 sections treating several forms of kissing, for instance 'divine and religious kissing' (by popes, kings, princes and magistrates), social kissing (on the hands, face, eyes, feet), the use of kissing in Italy, France and Spain, kissing in families (between brothers, parents vs. children and spouses). The last section treats love-kissing. The first edition of this Latin 'dissertation' appeared in Frankfurt /Od, 1621.
- 8. Fabius STENGLER LEPORINUS & Lepido CAPITONE (Leppisch HASENKOPFF), Theses de hasione et hasibili qualitate. (Rostock, Aug. Ferber?, ca. 1627). With charming woodcut with two hares on title. (16) pp. Originally published in 1592, this sham dissertation was republished several times; also in the Nugae Venales (1642).
- 9. Gripholdus KNICKKNACKIUS (Pseudon. of Janus Caecilius FREY), Flöia cortum versicale,de flois swartibus, illis deiriculis, quae omnes fere minchos, mannos, weibras, jungfras, &c. behuppere, & spitzibus Schnaflis steckore & bitere solent. 1627. (8) pp. A nonsensical macaronic Latin poem describing the behaviour of a flea biting humans and containing many hidden allusions to relationships between men and women. The poem was first published in 1593 and is edited many times together with a translation in German (1873, 1916, etc.).
- 10. Catharina Florida PAPHIENSIS & Junonius PARTHENOPHILUS, Theses inaugurales de virginibus, quas aspirante virginali Fortuna sub auspicio Gratiarum, praesidio --- Junonii Parthenophili Virginensis ... pro sumenda corona ... proponet ... Catharina Florida Paphiensis in magno Virginum collegio seu Schnaterclappertorio. With fictitious impressum: Virginiae, sub praelo Typographi, anno in his numeris comprehenso, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 (Rostock, Aug. Ferber?, ca. 1623). With two 'funny' woodcuts of a naked Catharina and a mixed Venus/Cupido/Fortuna on title. (32) pp. A facetious sham dissertation on virginity, divided in 129 theses and 12 Corollaria.
- 11. Joseph CORNIGER & Bartholomaeus ALECTHROCHORAS, Dissertatio theorica-practica de nobilissima & frequentissima hanreitatum Materia, quam auspice Venere, decreto & auctoritate ... publice discutiendam proponit ... in Collegio uxorum ... Bartholomæus Alecthrochoras  Baro & Dynasta in Frawenberg, Weiberbusch & Jungferndorff. With fictitious imprint: Hanripoli Cornutorum, Andreas Kleinstengel, 1627. With woodcut on title. (36) pp. Mock dissertation, praeses and respondent are likely to be the same person.
- 12. Matthaeus CZANAKIUS, Nobile scabiei encomium. Ad nobilissimos scabianae reipublicae scabinos O.B.D.H.D. & H.W. W, amicos & commensales quondam charissimos. 1627. With woodcut vignette on title. (3), 21 pp. Facetious ode on 'itching' (also in the erotic sense) by Matthias Czanak (ca. 1595-1630). 
- 13. Dionysius BACCHUS & Blasius MULTIBIBUS, Disputatio inauguralis theoretica-practica, jus potandi, cum omnibus solennitatibus et controversiis... praesidente Dionysio Bacchio symposiaste summo ... in Collegio Hilaritatis ... publice exponet Blasius Multibibus utriusque vini & cerevisiae candidatus ... Oenozythopoli, 1627. (24) pp. A mock disputation on drinking wine and beer in great quantities by 'Blasius Multibibus' a pseudonym erroneously attributed to Richard Brathwait who in fact later translated this work. One of the most successful of the mock treatises & dissertations. Claims to be translated from Latin into German by the virgin Joanna Elisabeth von Schwinuzki; translated the same year into English by Richard Brathwait. The text went through many editions (also many modern editions) for its charm and wit.
- 14. Johannes QUISTORPIUS, Orationes duae, una, in qua schoristae, altera, in qua nationalia collegia seu nationales societates delineantur. Rostock, Aug. Ferber, 1627. (2), 24, (2, blank) pp. Two facetious orations, one on sham-scholars and false scholarship delivered in 1621 (first edition: Rostock, Pedanus, 1621) and one on the 'Nationes', the societies of students from the various countries, held in 1625 by Johannes Quistorpius (1584-1648).
- 15. Bombardo STEVARZIUS & Buldrianus SCLOPETARIUS, Discursus methodicus de peditu ... With the fictitious imprint: Clareforti, apud Sancarum Cepollam: sub signo Divi Blasii), 1626. A burlesque on farting and getting wind. The text, first published in 1596, is mostly in Latin with a few passages in German.
- 16. Heinrich Christ. Von GREISSHEIM & Victor RABE, Disputatio feudalis de cucurbitatione, quam ... in Illustri Rosarum Academia, sub praesidio Heinrici Christophori à Greissheim ... privatim defendet Victor Rabe. 1625. With woodcut of a bloodletting on title. (8) pp. A sham disputation by Heinrich Chr. von Greissheim (1598-1649) on bloodletting.
- 17. DELINEATIO summorum capitum lustitudinis studenticae in nonnullis Academiis usitatae. 1627. (16) pp. A burlesque and facetious maccaronic Latin/German poem on visiting brothels by students, commonly in use at many German universities.

Good copy, with bookplate of W.A. Hofman pasted on inside front cover.- (Some contemp. underlinings in ink in text; endpapers loosening).
Erman, Bibl. deutsche Univ. I, 7411; Gay-Lemonnyer II, cols. 125-6 (other eds.); Brunet II, col. 1157-8 (other eds.); ad 1: VD17, 1:011770Y; ad 2: Nicola McLelland, 'Niederdeutsch und Hochdeutsch in der satirischen Flugschrift "Hans Pumbsack" (Rostock 1627). Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Bilingualismus und des Sprachwechsels in Norddeutschland', in: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch, 126 (2003), pp. 107-32; ad 3: VD17, 23:259356M; ad 4: VD17, 23:259374K; ad 5: Erman I, 7444; VD17, 23:259330C; ad 6: BL, German, T-664; VD17, 1:014292N; ad 7: VD17, 23:259380L; ad 8: Erman I, 7418; VD17, 23:259425Q; ad 10: Erman I, 7483a; VD17, 23:259368H; ad 12: VD17, 23:259429V; Németh, Hungarica H-330; ad 13: Halkett & Laing p. 231 (3rd ed.); ad 14: VD17, 23:259338P; ad 15: VD17, 23: 259423Z; ad 16: VD17, 23:259418F; ad 17: BL German D-303; VD17, 23:259328G.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erotica  Forbidden Books  German  Latin  Poetry  Religion 

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