Jestbooks
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Jestbooks
- Here are entered collections of short humorous anecdotes or prose tales on topics such as cuckolded husbands, erring priests, or historical events that were popular in Europe primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, as well as works about such books.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000986
- info:lc/authorities/sh91000986
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh91000986#concept
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Variants
- Jest books
- Joke books
- Jokebooks
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Sources
- found: Genre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging (jestbooks)
- found: Random House, 2nd ed.
- found: Web. 3 (jestbook; also called jokebook)
- found: Glaister, G.A. Glaister's glossary of the book, 2nd ed. (jest book: a collection of short humorous anecdotes or prose tales. Cuckolded husbands and erring priests figured in many, and some were based on actual events. Jest books remained common reading in Europe for several centuries, but their ephemeral nature has meant that few copies of earlier editions have survived)
General Notes
- Here are entered collections of short humorous anecdotes or prose tales on topics such as cuckolded husbands, erring priests, or historical events that were popular in Europe primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, as well as works about such books.
Change Notes
- 1991-03-07: new
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