A free imitation of Novella del angelo Gabriello, cf. Querard, Supercheries, I, 560-63. For authorship attribution and place of printing cf. A.A. Barbier, Ouvrages anonymes, III, 783 and BN 16:216. Also attributed to Mirabeau. Earliest ed. cited in a. Cioranescu, 18. s., is 1776 (no. 12927). Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute. Scanned copy imperfect: weak or faded print; text cut off at the gutter on some pages.