Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books

Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou is Professor of French language of the sixteenth century at Sorbonne University. She is the author of numerous publications on sixteenth-century poetry and Rabelais. Her publications include Panurge comme lard en pois. Paradoxe, scandale et propriété dans le Tiers Livre (2013). Paul J. Smith is Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on French Literature, including the co-edited volume Natural History in Early Modern France (2018).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Imaginary Booklists – History and Typology: an IntroductionAnne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and Paul J. Smith2 La Librairie de Saint-Victor et l’amplification créatriceAnne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou3 La farce d’un Vendeur de livresJelle Koopmans4 Anton Francesco Doni et les bibliothèques imaginaires en ItaliePatrizia Pellizzari5 A Gift for Hanno: the Fictitious Booklist of Eduard de DeneDirk Geirnaert6 Henricus Geldorpius, Dialogus epithalamicus (ca. 1560) : introduction, édition, traductionPaul J. Smith et Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou7 Possible Discourses and the Unfolding of the Implicit: Some Remarks on Johann Fischart’s Catalogus Catalogorum (1590)Tobias Bulang8 La bibliothèque imaginaire, genre satirique et polémique en des temps troublés (1587-1615)Raphaël Cappellen9 Trois “catalogues de Saint-Victor” au XVIIe siècleClaudine Nédelec10 Sir Thomas Urquhart’s Translation (1653) of Rabelais’s Imaginary Library of St. Victor (1542)Ronnie Ferguson11 Labbé’s Examples: Bibliothecae fictae in the Early Modern Classification of Scholarship (Catalogus librorum mystico-politicorum, Bibliotheca Gallo-Suecica)Dirk Werle12 Pamphlets with Satirical Book Catalogues: the Art of Political Blaming in 1672Marijke Meijer Drees13 Le Colporteur de Proserpine : un catalogue satirique dans Les Promenades d’Eustache Le NobleHelwi Blom14 Wieringa – Doedijns – Anna Folie – Van Lennep: Dutch Versions of Rabelais’s Library of Saint-VictorPaul J. Smith and Dirk GeirnaertIndex NominumIndex of Existing and Imaginary Authors, Printers, and Dedicatees, Mentioned in the Anthologized Fictitious Booklists

"This anthology makes clear that more systematic research into the (satirical) genre of imaginary book catalogues is in order. Precisely the interaction between fiction and fact makes this genre so attractive and exciting." (translated from Dutch)Rindert Jagersma, Radboud University, in JCW 43.2 (Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman)