On the Usefulness of Long Codpieces

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Creator

PANURGE fl. 1530.

Title

On the Usefulness of Long Codpieces

Coverage

Paris

Publisher

Yolande Bonhomme

Date

1530

Subject

First mention in Rabelais’s Gargantua.

Description

Folio, velum. Eight illustrations, one chart, and two codpieces tipped in.
Toni Morrison famously said that if you want to read a book, and you can’t find such a book, then you must write it. Panurge, finding himself caught short, needed this book badly but couldn’t find it, even at the great library of the Abbey of St. Victor, and so, par die, he sat his great self down and wrote it.

Source

De la commodité des longues braguettes