2 ms. copies of the "Remarques sur la Joyeuse Entrée de Sa Majesté comme duc de Brabant".

Folio: 109-[1 bl.]-88, [90] ff., in French and Dutch, pen and brown ink (1st pp. sl. soiled, occ. stains and foxing).

Contemp. full and three-quarter bound vellum (us.).

Two variants, each by a different hand, of this highly praised treatise of public law and history, remained unpublished, written around 1680 by de Paepe (1610–1685), lord of Glabbeek (Brabant). After serving at the Council of Brabant in Brussels and at the Supreme Council of Flanders in Madrid, he was appointed president of the Brussels Privy Council in 1674. One variant (109 ff.), with the text framed with fillets, contains also the complementary work "Notes [...] sur les Remarques sur la Joyeuse Entrée de Mr le chef président de Paepe" (88 ff.), by Count Pierre Melchior Henri de Wynants (1691-1727), Counsellor at the Council of Brabant.
Ref. UniCat (several copies in Belgian libraries, dated between 1701 and 1776). - Biogr. nat. XXVII:421-422 (Wynants).
Prov. A.J. Strens (ms. mention in the 1st variant). - Fernand Donnet (1856-1927), Antwerp historian, secretary of the Royal Belgian Academy of Archaeology and author i.a. of the monumental "Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire financière d'Anvers" (ms. mention, dated 1881, in the 2nd variant).