I found another "poxleber"

[Bernd]

If you squint a little, the marginalia can become next to anything as we have seen in the countless 'theories' here.

Koen, I think Niklaus Manuel deserves a mention as well. He uses 'boxleber', but also 'pox angst', showing he was familiar with the 'pox' spelling variant. It might just have been a coincidence he didn't write 'poxleber'.

Regarding the swearwords in the 'Jahrbücher der Literatur:

"Das Sprüchwort Herzog Albrecht VI., Bruder von Kaiser Friedrich IV., war: Poz hinkender Gans!

So even a duke can swear like that. Albrecht lived 1418-1463 which is already in VM territory.

Agricola führt in seinen Sprüchwörtern (1519) eine große Schaar ähnlicher Verwünschungen auf

This might be worth looking into! Agricola was familiar with Martin Luther and also a major protestant reformer.

However, this might be a mistake as his works were published 1534 not 19.
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