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He hardly knew his father, since the latter died of a depression (morbo melancholico, according to the family book) in 1638. The problems confronting his widow piled up. Next Aernout van Overbeke and His Jokes 49 of kin started legal proceedings about the inheritance, and the case - in which the famous jurist Hugo de Groot featured - dragged on for years. The paintings and the library had to be sold. Barlaeus wrote in a letter of 1640 that the widow had solicitors coming to see her all the time.
The heyday of the jestbook was in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, when the number of new jestbooks and the number of reprints was at its peak. 1600-24 1625-49 1650-74 1675-99 Editions First edition 1 5 29 9 1 3 11 5 Two books were exceptionally popular: De geest van Jam Tamboer [The Spirit of Jan Tamboer] appeared between 1656 and 1824 in at least 11 reprints, and The Life and Activities of Clement Marot appeared between 1655 and 1830 in at least 19. These are the only jestbooks that were still being reprinted in the nineteenth century.
Only three authors are mentioned by name. One of them is Jan Zoet, who posed as translator of The Life and Activities of Clement Marot. Jan van Duisberg wrote the work he published as Den schimpigen bolworm-spiegel [The Satirical Tapeworm Mirror]; that is to say, he signed the preface, where he also claims to be the author of The Spirit of Jan Tamboer. Simon de Vries probably wrote the collection he published, although he does not appear as such on the title page. The authors of most jestbooks are shrouded in obscurity; jestbooks were published anonymously or gave only the author's initials.