Invitations to thesis defenses at the University of Paris. Unrecorded.
[Medicine] / [Ephemera]. Magister Meritissime, Aderis si placet, in Scholis, die Martis, 4â. Novembris 1766, horâ post meridiem sesqui-secundâ, pro Actu Publico D. DEVILLIER, Artium liberalium Magistri, in alma Universitate Parisiensi. Goursaud D. Primarii Regis Chirugi Legatus, & Scholarum Praepostitus Perpetuus. [With:] Magister Meritissime, Aderis si placet, in Scholis, die Martis, 30â. Decembris 1766, horâ post meridiem sesqui-secundâ, pro Actu Publico D. GASQUE, Artium liberalium Magistri, in alma Universitate Parisiensi. Goursaud D. Primarii Regis Chirugi Legatus, & Scholarum Praepostitus Perpetuus. [Each 27.0 x 20.9 cm], [2] ff. letterpress invitations, manuscript notes on versos. Old mends to centerfolds.
Two Latin invitations to thesis defenses (or other orations) at the University of Paris in 1766. Both invitations follow the same form and were issued by Isaac Goursaud, a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris. The students in question were a certain Devilliers and a certain Gasque. Ephemeral items of this sort rarely survive.
The unknown recipient of the invitations did not waste the paper: The versos are filled with manuscript notes on the anatomy of the mouth and teeth.
The invitations can be translated:
“Most Worthy Master,
Please come to school on Tuesday, November 4th [or December 30th], 1766, at one o’clock in the afternoon, for the Public Performance of Mr. DEVILLIER [or GASQ], Master of the Liberal Arts, at the University of Paris.
Mr. Goursaud, First Royal Surgeon, and Permanent Provost of the Schools.”
OCLC and KVK locate no other (or any similar) examples of these invitations.