Folie d'Empereur

Date:
1915-1916
Reference:
MS.5057
Part of:
Witkowski, Gustave Joseph Alphonse (1844-1923)
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Annotated copy of Folie d'Empereur. Par le docteur Cabanès. Guillaume II jugé par la science: une dynastie de dégénérés. Paris: A. Michel. [1915]'. Exemplaire annoté par le Docteur Witkowski, 18 mars 1916. Paris.

These are the most copious holograph annotations, corrections, and additions by Witkowski, who repeatedly calls attention to manifold inaccuracies and plagiarisms.

The 34 ll. (17 ll. + 17 ff.), written on versos or rectos only are in sheets of smaller format--16 x 10 cm. They have a title in pencil on the first leaf "Rencontres singulières, ou la manière de "faire" un livre". This consists of parallel passages from Cabanès' book, and extracts from "Barbares et bandits" 1872, by Paul de Saint Victor (i.e. Paul Jacques Raimond Bins de) [1827-1881]).

Publication/Creation

1915-1916

Physical description

2 ll.+460 pp.+2 ll. (last bl.).+34 ll. illus. 8vo. 18 x 131/2 cm. In original paper covers and bound in buckram.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: these notes were afterwards set out by the author in his `Dissertation de "Folie d'Empereur"' [cf. MSS. 5058-5062].

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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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  • 55101