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Nugæ venales, sive, Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi : ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres melancholicorum conscriptos

Title
Nugæ venales, sive, Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi : ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres melancholicorum conscriptos.
Format
Book
Published
[S.l.] : Prostant apud neminem, sed tamen ubique, 1663.
Description
[6], 252, [112], 71 p. : ill.
Other titles
Comoedia de vitâ. Nugæ venales. Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi. Thesaurus ridendi and jocandi.
Notes
Added illustrated engraved half-title: Nugæ venales. "Pugna porcorum per P. Porcium poëtam" (71 p. at end) and "Studentes, sive, Comoedia de vitâ (p. [17]-[112] at third count) each have special t.p. A collection of student and rules of (mis)behavior, etc., in not too academic latin ("macaronic" latin). How to gamble, make love, drink, eat, spend money, (one's father's) fight, etc., as a good, bad student. Various pamplets bound together: Nugaie Venales -- jokes for sale and thesauras (bawdy). Some in quasi-pompus form of a thesis or a "disputatio." Includes a Comoedia about student life.
Kinsey subjects
Humor--17th century. Literature--17th century.

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
770 N58 1663
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute