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.
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