Tables
1 Overview of Beverland’s early works 41
2 Writers in first part of the first book of the ‘De Prostibulis Veterum’ 116
Illustrations
1 and 2 Ode XII in L. Desprez’s edition of Horace, presenting the expurgated Latin text and commentary. Taken from: L. Desprez, Quinti Horatii Flacci opera (Paris, 1691), 470–71 140
3 and 4 Pages of the ‘Epigrammata Obscaena’ in V. Collesson’s edition of Martial. Taken from: V. Collesson, M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum libros xv (Paris, 1680), 1, 11 142
5 Portrait of Hadriaan Beverland by Ary de Vois (painted in the 1670s). Printed with permission from The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 175
6 Collected pictures in connection to Baalpeor (mentioned by Beverland in: ‘De Prostibulis Veterum’, Book I, Chapter IV, lines 1243, 2206). The image was taken from folio 33r of: ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’, British Library (Add MS 30384) © British Library Board. The images from this manuscript are reproduced with permission from the British Library, London 198
7 Example of arranged images without comment, from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folios 37v–38r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) 199
8 Image of Sappho, from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folio 50r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) 200
9 Illustration in relation to obscene ancient cults and a reference to Suetonius on Nero and his mother (The Twelve Caesars, 34), from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folio 49r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) 201
10 Picture of a naked woman with the text ‘Ipsa Venus cui flamma potens, cui militat ardor’ (‘Venus herself, for whom the flame is strong, for whom the fire fights’), from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folio 53r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) 201
11 Notes for Book I, Chapter VIII of the ‘De Prostibulis Veterum’, on the cult of fertility of the Goddess Ceres, from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folio 30r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) 202
12, 13, 14, and 15 Examples of pictures without text, from the ‘Crepundia Lugdunensia’ (folios 53r and 54r, see for the details of this manuscript Fig. 6 above) and the ‘Inscriptiones singulares’, Bodleian Libraries (MS D’Orville 540), folios 5v an 21r. The images are reproduced with permission from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford 203