Drawing by an unknown 16th-century artist, from “Rabelais: the ribald scholar,” by Alain Frontier (UNESCO Courier, ISSN 00415278, vol. 47 no.11, page 44, Nov 1994).

“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 Docteur in Medecine, s.l., 1626] we have examined (at Tours). Porcher’s catalogue, no 358, lists a copy with this large portrait (which is sometimes confused with the small portrait figuring in most copies, below) belonging to the collection J.B. (Jacques Boulenger?).”

— A New Rabelais Bibliography, Stephen Rawles and M.A. Screech, Librarie Droz, 1987

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