Barisien: Fragmenta poetarum

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Fragmenta poetarum by Josephus Ernestus Barisien (1747)

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The full title of the book gives a sense of its free-ranging and fun contents: Fragmenta poetarum veterum recentiorumque, ponderosioribus metris: cum laudi, cum vituperio inservituris: nec non intermixtis apophtegmatibus, axiomatibus, variis in- & descriptionibus, sententiis, ac documentis, sacris, atque profanis, interjectisque, metris leoninis, rhythmis, et epigrammatibus, inmodum Polyantheae poeticae proposita per alphabeticos titulos in ordinem disposita, pro erudita legentium utilitate luci publicae exposita. What a delight! Here are the titles of the opening topics: Adversitates, Adulator, Aetas Varia, Ambitio, etc. The verse extracts are generally very short, but also with some longer passages (15-20 lines at most). The "fragments" here are not fragments in the sense of poets whose work survive only in fragments; instead, it is more what we would call something like "excerpts" or "selections."



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