(Cant Vocabulary) | Wayfaring life and language in 16th century Germany
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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
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(Cant Vocabulary)
Liber vagatorum. Der Betler Orden. [Sl: sn., ca. 1510]
4to (191 x 133 mm), 28 pp. Woodcuts of vagabonds on recto and verso of title-page, printed in fractur; title-page soiled and repaired in gutter, terminal leaf soiled. Modern half light brown morocco over marbled boards, the spine in 6 compartments gilt.
The Book of Vagabonds and Order of Mendicants, accompanied by a vocabulary of their slang, described herein as "rotwelsch"— being thieves' latin or cant.
REFERENCE:
Exemplars, p. 154
PROVENANCE:
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes (1858–1943)), 1st Marquess of Crewe (armorial bookplate on front pastedown) — Lady Celia Crewe, his daughter and wife of Sir Clive Milnes-Coates (small diamond-shaped library ticket printed with entwined Cs) on front pastedown)