Live auction - Lot 831
[Law - Mechelen]
52 Mechelen ordonnances, advertisements, placards, etc.
Mainly 18th c
Hammer price: €
340
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
Broadsheets, diff. sizes, in Dutch (a single one in Latin or French).
On vagabonds, craftsmen ("buyldraghers", "fruyteniers", "mande-maeckers" and "hoveniers"), the reward for those who pull drowning people out of the water, the danger of doubtful publications ("dat'er dagelyks zoo veel gevaerlyke boekskens en naemloose schriften worden verspreyt"), the death of a young child in the Dyle, on the procession of S. Rumoldus, duties and impositions on beer, etc., the ban of shooting birds ("verboden is geweest met schietgeweren te comen [...] ende die aldaer te lossen naer swaluwen ofte andere gevogelte"), the illegal occupation of public space by private persons, the fire hazard in houses made of wood and mud, illegal fireworks ("duyvelkens, aerdt-fizéen ende diergelijck vierwerck"), leaving agricultural waste on the roads, murders, street vendors, the prohibition to tie dogs with a bow ("geinterdiceert van syne honden, oft andere beesten op de straten, oft publiecke plaetsen, te laeten comen met eenighe stricken, oft jet diergelijckx op het hooft oft andere deelen van het lyf"), the abandonment of children, etc. Printed by Jan Jaye, Andreas Jaye, Joannes Franciscus Jaye, Laurentius Vander Elst, P.J. Hanicq, etc.