Mala Gallina, Malum Ovum. That's how the old people sing, so the boys joke. In the second Centi-Folio a hundred ominous fools. 4 Bl., 452 pp., 2 Bl. (Register). With copper title and 95 (of 100) copper plates. 19.5 x 15.7 cm. Leather d. C. (stronger rubbed, strained and slightly inflamed, capitals worn off, joints brittle). Vienna, Andreas Heyinger for Christoph Weigel, 1713. First edition of the compilation of foolish practices of women who are morally presented in "hundred beautiful coppers". Each of the tablets is explained from a short, six-line poem to the respective vice. The author of this work remains anonymous by many falsely attributed to the author of the best author of his time Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709). Named are the various qualities that a woman should not have. In addition to vices such as unfriendly, malicious and "unthinkable", this also includes cheating, careless, in love, unwilling, singing, free, traveling or "super clever" fools. Just as dog- or cat-feeling, a woman should not be too dress-, child- or speech-fearing. Where a "magic plague", as well as a "man-pailing" woman, is undesirable, a "musical" or even "danced fool" is also one of the unpopular ladies, who are not to be married. Among the virtues it is not too sick to be witty and instructive, actually not to anything. If a woman is too persistent, the husband enthuses his "Sauff-brother(s)" in the inn from the "rainbow in the face" of his wife - "which is a sign of peace" (p. 170). – There are 5 copper plates missing, however, after the title are another 4 plates together with a text sheet from the 'Centifolium Stultorum In Quarto. Or a hundred ominous fools (p. 185-200) additionally integrated, among them "Hauß-Narr", "Der Jungfrau Narr", "Jubelen-Narrh", "Kriegs-Narr", copper title contoured and reared, title deposited,