Monthly Archives: August 2009

Le disciple de Pantagruel

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Swany

Navigation: Le disciple de Pantagruel, s.l., 1538 [Lyons, Denis de Harsy] NRB 131: Listed under spurious works. Similar image in other editions of the Navigation.

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Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Swany

Listed as spurious in New Rabelais Bibliography [NRB 113 (p. 560): the bulk of the book is made up of woodcuts of grotesque figures. Manifestly pseudo-Rabelaisian.]

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Rabelais astrologer?

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Swany

NRB 94: Almanach pour l’an 1553, calculé sur le Meridional de la noble Cité de Lyon, et sur le climat de royaume de France. Composé par moy François Rabelais, Docteur en Medecine, et Professeur en astrologie. “Despite the fragmentary nature … Continue reading →

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Portraits from NRB 93 — Oeuvres, 1626

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Swany

“The engraved portrait mentioned by Plan [P.-P. Plan, Bibliographie rabelaisienne: les éditions de Rabelais de 1532 à 1711, Paris, 1904] and reproduced by him appears in only one of the copies [of NRB 93, Les Oeuvres de Maistre François Rabelais … Continue reading →

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