Complete 3 Volume Book Set - Satyre Menippee (1711)
Complete 3 Volume Book Set - Satyre Menippee (1711)
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Set of 3 Antique Books - Complete Set
Satyre Menippee (Signed)
A Ratisbone; 1711
Ex libris Caroli (Charles) Sugonik (or Jugonik) likely at Augustino magno? (Great Augustine College - theological institution) of Paris - June 1730
College des Grands Augustins was a noted theological faculty attached to the Augustinian monastery on the Quai des Grands-Augustins in Paris
List of reading or lending list - entiries of acquaintances who borrowed or discussed the volume? Common to note who had access to the satire in private libraries; could also record members of a local society or assembly
Passed through a French antiquarian trade sale in the 1960s
Complete 3 volume edition of one of the most celebrated political satires in French literature - Satyre Menippee de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne et de la Tenue des Etats de Paris (Menippean Satire on the Virtue of the Spanish Catholicon and the Assembly of the States of Paris)
Printed a Ratisbonne (regensburg) by the heirs of Mathias Kerner (German-speaking, then part of the Holy Roman Empire)
Kerner's press was active from the late 1600s through mid-1700s and known for theological and satirical reprints
Includes the famous engraved plates (the "Procession" and "Siege") that made the satire legendary (fold-outs)
This edition circulated among French royalist and clerical readers sympathetic to Henri IV's legacy but wary of later Jansenist and ultramontane controversies
Significantly more rare edition (compared to 1741 edition), even in institutional catalogues
Each fold out engraving is a visual satire
Frontispiece Allegory - placed before titlepage, female figure, often Truth or Reason, tears away a veil or emerges from clouds; around her are grotesque or confused figures - symbolizing fanaticism and deceit; Latin motto translates to The surface appearance is deceing or Truth, daughter of time; it introduces Satyre Menippee's purpose - to expose the absurdity and hypocrisy of the Catholic League, whose fanaticism had nearly torn France apart (Truth, long obscured by religious extremism, is being revealed to the French people)
The Procession - A grotesque parage of fanaticism, greed, and hypocrisy; most famous image in the entire work and one of the great satirical engravings of the early modern era; shows a huge, crowded procession winding through Paris's streets - priests, monks, soldiers, nobles, women, and even animals - all portraed in a chaotic, mocking jumble; forefront often shows monks carrying relics and absurd objects; at the center, a hooded friar or preacher waves a banner embalzoned with Latin phrases like "So much evil could religion persuade"; a child or onlooker appears on the edge representing the innocent public looking on in disbelief; architectural backdrops often resembls Parisian buildings linking image to real events of 1590-1594; ridicules the mock-solemn "religious processions" of the League, which were in reality political theatre
The Assembly of the League - Farce of political power under fanatic rule; a parody of a parliamentary session; in the center, entrhoned under a canopy, sits a symbolic "Queen of the League" - often meant to mock the League's puppet governance or Spain's dominance in French politics; around her are rows of monks, priests, nobles, and officials all caricatured; background often showsn Parisian facades or church interiors situtaitng the meeting as both religious and civic corruption; at the front soliders march in or out emphasizing the theatricality and futility of the proceedings
Set of 3 Antique Books - Complete Set
Satyre Menippee (Signed)
A Ratisbone; 1711
Ex libris Caroli (Charles) Sugonik (or Jugonik) likely at Augustino magno? (Great Augustine College - theological institution) of Paris - June 1730
College des Grands Augustins was a noted theological faculty attached to the Augustinian monastery on the Quai des Grands-Augustins in Paris
List of reading or lending list - entiries of acquaintances who borrowed or discussed the volume? Common to note who had access to the satire in private libraries; could also record members of a local society or assembly
Passed through a French antiquarian trade sale in the 1960s
Complete 3 volume edition of one of the most celebrated political satires in French literature - Satyre Menippee de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne et de la Tenue des Etats de Paris (Menippean Satire on the Virtue of the Spanish Catholicon and the Assembly of the States of Paris)
Printed a Ratisbonne (regensburg) by the heirs of Mathias Kerner (German-speaking, then part of the Holy Roman Empire)
Kerner's press was active from the late 1600s through mid-1700s and known for theological and satirical reprints
Includes the famous engraved plates (the "Procession" and "Siege") that made the satire legendary (fold-outs)
This edition circulated among French royalist and clerical readers sympathetic to Henri IV's legacy but wary of later Jansenist and ultramontane controversies
Significantly more rare edition (compared to 1741 edition), even in institutional catalogues
Each fold out engraving is a visual satire
Frontispiece Allegory - placed before titlepage, female figure, often Truth or Reason, tears away a veil or emerges from clouds; around her are grotesque or confused figures - symbolizing fanaticism and deceit; Latin motto translates to The surface appearance is deceing or Truth, daughter of time; it introduces Satyre Menippee's purpose - to expose the absurdity and hypocrisy of the Catholic League, whose fanaticism had nearly torn France apart (Truth, long obscured by religious extremism, is being revealed to the French people)
The Procession - A grotesque parage of fanaticism, greed, and hypocrisy; most famous image in the entire work and one of the great satirical engravings of the early modern era; shows a huge, crowded procession winding through Paris's streets - priests, monks, soldiers, nobles, women, and even animals - all portraed in a chaotic, mocking jumble; forefront often shows monks carrying relics and absurd objects; at the center, a hooded friar or preacher waves a banner embalzoned with Latin phrases like "So much evil could religion persuade"; a child or onlooker appears on the edge representing the innocent public looking on in disbelief; architectural backdrops often resembls Parisian buildings linking image to real events of 1590-1594; ridicules the mock-solemn "religious processions" of the League, which were in reality political theatre
The Assembly of the League - Farce of political power under fanatic rule; a parody of a parliamentary session; in the center, entrhoned under a canopy, sits a symbolic "Queen of the League" - often meant to mock the League's puppet governance or Spain's dominance in French politics; around her are rows of monks, priests, nobles, and officials all caricatured; background often showsn Parisian facades or church interiors situtaitng the meeting as both religious and civic corruption; at the front soliders march in or out emphasizing the theatricality and futility of the proceedings