Chroniicke van de hertoghen van Brabant, waer in hun leven, oorloghen, ende acten perfectelijck beschreven zijn.

Antwerp, J.B. Vrient (col.: typis H. Verdussen), 1606

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Lot description

Sm. folio: [4]-110 (of 116)-[2] ff. (6 ff. with 4 pl. missing; title dusty, some soiling, browning & spotting).

Later cardboard covers covered with marbl. paper, flat spine (sl. used but firm).

Dutch translation of "Ducum Brabantiae Chronica" by Barlandus. Engr. ill.: title-vign. depicting coat of arms of Brabant, full-page plate showing coat of arms of Albert and Isabella (on verso title) and 38 (of 42) full-page portraits of the dukes of Brabant, the last one signed by J. Collaert after Otto Vaenius. Text in 2 col. in Gothic type.
Ref. Simoni (BL) B-17. - STCV.
Prov. A few ms. entries on title, i.e. "Domus Professa Soc. Jesu Antwerp.".