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1051 [Charles V]
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Vanden alder victorieusten/ en(de) onverwinlijcsten Prinche Karolus
/ Keyser
va(n) Roomen/ Coninck va(n) Spaengien (...) gheboren Graue van Vlaendren. Antwerp, W.
Vorsterman, 11 July 1531, folio, mod. half vellum, flat spine, marbl. paper on covers, lix (= 60) ff.
(without the 5 final ff. with “Die Tafele”; some clear dampstains). Good copy.
€ 250/400
Part II of the famous “Excellente cronike van Vlaenderen”, containing the contemporary narrative of
the career of Emperor Charles V.
Large woodcut portrait
on title &
32 large woodcuts
within various
borders; present is the double-leaf woodcut with the “Siege of Vienna”. Gothic type in 2 cols of 50 ll.
Old ownership entry on last p. A few old marg. notes i.a. in fine: “int Jaer ons heeren 1764 hebben
de eerw. PP. guillielmiten te brugge hun convent verlaeten om de armoede soo men seght en syn naer
andere conventen gegaen”.
Ref.
NK 659. Pettegree NB 26840. B.B. I:998-1004 C-318. Adams F-585.
~ Unique copy and unrecorded translation ~
1052 [Chivalric novel]
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De historie va(n) Galien rethore
. [Antwerp, W. Vorsterman?, before 1540?],
sm. folio, mod. half leather, [54 (of 56)] ff. (lacking final ff. o3-4; dampstained, margins def. with
occ. loss of text, old repairs of edges with paper strips, some ff. mounted). In all a good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2500/4000
Unique copy of the unrecorded Dutch translation/adaptation
of the French chivalric novel on Galien.
Inc.: “Hier beghint die seer schoone wonderlijke historie van den aldervromsten campioen Galyen
rethore. Met oock die aldermeeste bloetstortinghe der kerstenen ende der heydenen geschiet op den
ronchevale doer die verraderie vanden alder valschten verrader gouweloen”. “Galien (le) Restoré”
(c. 1300), a work in the King Cycle, narrates the tribulations of Galien, Olivier’s son by Jacqueline,
daughter of Emperor Hugh of Constantinople. It combines several chansons de geste with a rhymed
version of the “Chanson de Roland”. Galien arrives at Roncevaux and witnesses the death of his
father and of Roland. Victorious, he conquers the castle of Monfusain. He is also crowned Emperor
of Constantinople. The work was 1st printed in 1500 by A. Vérard in Paris (GW 12569). Title with
woodcut ill. and borders. On verso of title large woodcut
imperial arms of Charles V within woodcut
border
.
36 large woodcuts
(incl. repeats), some with 2 scenes, within woodcut borders. 35 of these
woodcuts similar to, but not identical with, woodcuts in the chronicles and chivalric texts published
by W. Vorsterman. 1 woodcut (f. a2r) was used earlier by the Brussels publisher Thomas van der Noot
(NAT, Van der Noot X. nr. 20). Gothic type in 2 cols. Mod. bookpl.; bibliographical notes on front
flylvs.
Ref.
Not in Pettegree NB, NK, Adams, BnF, BL etc. Cp. Debaene (Ned. volksboeken) p. 217.
~ Unique copy of a chivalric novel ~
1053 [Chivalric novel]
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Van Jason en(de) Hercules
. Die wonderlike vreemde historien [and]
Die
historie vanden stercken Hercules
. Dye veel wond(er)like dinghen in sijn leven heeft gedaen (...)
Dese historie is seer avontuerlic/ en(de) ghenuechlijc om lesen. Antwerp, J. van Doesborch for W.
Vorsterman, [c. 1525], sm. folio, mod. half leather, 2 parts: [1 (of 46?], [47 (of 48) ff. (pt. I title leaf
only; pt. II: lacking only final f. m4; some staining, margins def. with loss of some letters, old repairs
of edges with paper strips). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2000/3000
Unique copy of the unrecorded 2nd ed.
of this Dutch chivalric novel on Jason and Hercules. It was 1st
published by Van Doesborch in 1521 (NK 3164), and a 3rd ed. by S. Cock in 1556 (unique copies of both
in BL London). Of part I (Jason - a Dutch trsl. of Raoul Lefèvre, 1st publ. Haarlem 1484) only the title
leaf has survived, printed in red & black, and with
6 woodcuts
and a woodcut border on r/v. Pt. II (the
story of Hercules) is almost complete (final leaf only lacking) with
2 woodcuts on title and 29 in text
(various sizes, incl. repeated border ill.). It is an adaptation of the 1st Dutch trsl. of Raoul Lefèvre’s “Die
vergaderinge van der historien van Troyen”, Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert, 1485. Both parts were probably
available separately and combined. In gothic type in 2 cols. Mod. bookpl.; bibliographical notes on
front flylvs.
Ref.
Not in Pettegree NB, NK, Adams, BnF, BL etc. Cp. Debaene (Ned. volksboeken) pp.
253-254 (title of 1521 ed.). Cp. P. Franssen
(www.janvandoesborch.com)nrs 51-52.