Jestbook containing bawdy anecdotes and jokes, 1640s.

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Title: Jestbook containing bawdy anecdotes and jokes, 1640s.
Contributor: Macclesfield--Earls of,--Ownership.
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in a single mixed hand, containing a collection of brief bawdy anecdotes and jokes. Topics include sex, particularly loss of virginity or potency, and unwanted pregnancy; scatological jokes and stories; and humorous comments on illness, death, corpses and religious ideas. Headings include "Jestings with Death," "Base Come-Offs," "Vapours," and "Witty Evasions."
Description: Binding: Contemporary full calf, gilt-tooled, gilt edges. Marbled endpapers.
Ex libris Earls of Macclesfield. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2008.
Pasted on inside front pastedown: library ticket, "North Library," with shelf mark 82.C.20.
Extent: 1 v. (96 p.) ; 11 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Jestbooks.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Macclesfield--Earls of,--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Death--Humor--Early works to 1800.
English wit and humor--17th century.
Jestbooks, English--17th century.
Scatology--England--17th century.
Sex role--Humor--Early works to 1800.
Sex--Humor--Early works to 1800.

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Citation: Jestbook Containing Bawdy Anecdotes and Jokes. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.