[Jardin d'armoiries] "Briefve description du tresancien, noble et riche duché de Brabant [...]".

Engraving, 45,5 x 54,5 cm, laid paper sheet: 48 x 62,5 cm, signed "Excudebat Io. Baptista Zangrius" (sl. browning, some foxing, marg. tear restored without loss).

Laid down on canvas.

Spectacular "jardin d'armoiries" relating to the Duchy of Brabant, dated 1600 at the top of the plate and on the privilege signed at Leuven by I. de Busschere. The plate gives the general political and social organisation of the duchy through heraldry. In the centre, an enclosure is punctuated by towers bearing the coats of arms of the Brabant cities. At the top of the enclosure, a canopy contains the interlaced ciphers and coats of arms of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, plus those of Brabant, Lothier and the Marquisate of the Holy Empire. Next, in several rows, are the coats of arms of the abbeys, bishoprics, hereditary offices and lordships. Outside the enclosure are the coats of arms of the noble families as well as those of the lineages of Leuven and Brussels. At the bottom of the plate, a text in French gives the explanation and the legend of the tinctures.
Ref. De Ghellinck 1548. - UniCat (1 copy: KBR).