Studentenzangen - 1822

Student Songs. No author mentioned.
Leiden, I. Herdingh & son & the widow M. Cijfveer (no year).
Introduction (preface) dated 1822.

Scarce and early songbook for students.
The task reads "Minerva to the Leiden students." The booklet seems specifically intended for the students in Leiden.

Contents:
- title page.
- Minerva to the Leiden students. 2 pp.
- preface. 2 pp.
- testimonies from some writers on the content of these student songs. 6 pp.
- "A good and bad student. Two moral prints in the taste of Constantyn Huygens". 6 pp.
- student songs. pp.1-174.
- bookmark and afterword 4 pp.

Bound in the original green cardboard binding with illustration.

Condition: Fair, see photos, these are part of the description.

Contains well-known classical (student) songs such as "Io vivat" (with versions in Dutch, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic), etc. Also a few German songs.

Scarce songbook for students. This is the oldest printed songbook for students in the northern Netherlands.