Vianés, Eugène ( -1868)

Récréations d'un Cassaïré. A calligraphie MS. with a historiated decoration on the third leaf in pencil, and numerous pen and pencil head- and tail-pieces. The poems are in the dialect of Languedoc, and according to Duhem, bookseller of Montpellier, the work was printed from this copy, in a limited edition in 1869, though the copy in the Wellcome Library is dated 1870. Among the verses is a scatologic poem on Dr. Louis Aimé Fizeau [1776-1864] of Montpellier, 'La Liçou daou Dr. Fiza' (pp. 1-11), and there are others (pp. 87-112) on a visit to the Vichy Waters. Produced in Montpellier.

1869

1 volume 3 ll. + 120 pp. + 1 bl. l. 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Half-morocco binding.

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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