Live auction - Lot 1066

[Splendid ceremonies - Brussels]

Brusselsche eer-triumphen, dat is eene waerachtighe beschrijvinge van alle de Hertoghlijcke huldinghen, der Keyseren [...]. Inne-komsten, Vreugde-feesten en Tournoy-spelen, geschiet binnen de Princelijcke Stadt Brussel [...]. Eyndende, met [...] Groote Feeste, van het dry hondert jarigh Jubilé van het hoogh-weerdigh H. Sacrament van Mirakelen.

STROOBANT, Jacobus

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Brussels, P. De Dobbeleer, 1670

Folio: [12]-127-[4-1 bl.] pp. (some marg. soiling and some staining, bookblock broken and loosening at bottom, some pencil scribbling at blank margins, versos, endpapers & flylvs, pls frayed, loosening and with sm. tears, frontisp. and Bb1 lacking, tear in G1, sm. hole in K2, P2 and 2nd pl. partly torn).

Old reused archival vellum over cardboard, flat spine, remains of ties (old notes, rubbed, corners bumped, some def., head & tail def.). Used, incomplete copy.

Rare survey of royal entries and similar festivities in Brussels, culminating in the sumptuous tercentenary procession of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracle (3 miraculous hosts which started to bleed on Good Friday 1370 when Jews had pierced them with knives - a typical case of the continuation of medieval anti-semitism). Engr. ills: 8 full-page and 2 folding pls by Gaspar Bouttats. Ref. Matagne (Namur) S-480. - Opac KBR. - STCV. - BL. - Not in Landwehr (Splendid ceremonies).

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Lot 1066

Brusselsche eer-triumphen, dat is eene waerachtighe beschrijvinge van alle de Hertoghlijcke huldinghen, der Keyseren [...]. Inne-komsten, Vreugde-feesten en Tournoy-spelen, geschiet binnen de Princelijcke Stadt Brussel [...]. Eyndende, met [...] Groote Feeste, van het dry hondert jarigh Jubilé van het hoogh-weerdigh H. Sacrament van Mirakelen.

STROOBANT, Jacobus

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