Histoire de l'image de N. Dame du Sablon arrivée miraculeusement de la ville d'Anvers en la roiale cité de Brusselles l'an 1348.

8vo: 36-[4] pp. (some light spotting).

Old quarter sheep, mottled paper on covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands and leather title label "Histoire du Sablon" (tail and head sl. def.).

Very rare first edition of the history of the miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Sablon, which was brought by boat from Antwerp in 1348 by a devout woman named Beatrijs Soetkens, after being told in a vision by the Virgin to steal it in Antwerp. Written by J. Magnus (1670-1727), "prètre & recteur de l'Église du Sablon".
Ref. Opac KBR. - Cp. BCNI 18551 (Dutch trsl.). - Not in STCV.
Bound with, none in STCV, some in 12mo-format and entirely remargined to fit into the binding: 1. [van Lyere, A.] - Lof-reden van den heyligen ende alder-soetsten naem Maria, met feeste ende een koninghlyck broederschap tot Brussel, in de Kercke van onse L. Vrouwe op de Savel ver-eert. Ibid., J. Mommaert, 1638. 113-[1 bl.] pp. (browning & staining). Very rare work on the name of Mary, for the confraternity of Our Lady of the Sablon. By the Jesuit Adrianus van Lyere (Antwerp 1588-1661 Brussels), priest at the Church of the Sablon for 30 years Ill. with 5 emblematic woodcuts (1 for each letter of the name "Maria"). Printed in Gothic. Ref. Cp. DBS V:217:1 (2nd ed. 1640), BCNI 9134 (French trsl. 1638) - Not in Opac KBR. - 2. Chifflet, L. - Devotions et indulgences de la confrerie du glorieux patriarche S. Joseph, instituée en l'Eglise de Nôtre Dame au Sablon en la ville de Bruxelles. Ibid., N. Stryckwant, 1741. [4]-85-[3 bl.] pp. Ill. with engr. front. (showing i.a. S. Joseph and the image of Our Lady of the Sablon in the boat). Ref. DBS II:1133:5. - Opac KBR. - 3. Oeffeninghe der vergaderinge van den H. Ioseph, bruydegom der H. Moeder Godts Maria. In-ghestelt in haere Kercke op de Savel, binnen de princelycke stadt van Brussel. S.l.n., 1689. [24] pp. (browning & staining). Woodcut image at verso title. Ref. Not in Opac KBR. - 4. Engraving (13,3 x 9,1 cm; trimmed short at fore edge) showing i.a. a chapel and St Hubert, with caption "attigit approbatas reliquias Bruxel in ducali ecclesia b.m.v. de Sabulone". According to legend, Duke John III of Brabant received Beatrijs and the statue at the Chapel of Our Lady, which stood on the spot where the Church of the Sablon would be build in the 15th c. - 5. Bulle de N.S. Pere Innocent XII. pour la confrerie des couriers erigée dans l'Eglise de Notre Dame du Sablon à Bruxelles, sous le titre de l'annonciation de la Tres-sainte Vierge. Brussels, s.n., [1699]. 15-[1 bl.] pp. Ref. Not in Opac KBR. - 6. Lofdicht ter eeren vanden H. Marcoen wiens H. Reliquien rusten tot Brussel inde kercke vande Savel. 1 p. Engr. pl. - 7. Indulgences de la confrerie des cordonniers sous l'invocation des ss. Crispin et Crispinien martyrs, erigée en l'Eglise de Sainte Marie Victoire au Sablon. Ibid., N. Jacobs, 1780. 19-[1 bl.-3-1 bl.] pp. - 8. Litanie de Saint Donat Martyr [...]. Ibid., G. Pauwels, 1772. 4 pp. Large woodcut image. - 9. Confrerie à l'honneur [...] erigée en l'église paroissiale de S. Gery à Bruxelles [...]. Ibid., E.H. Fricx, 1706. 24-[1 bl.] pp. Ref. Not in Opac KBR. - 10. [Kockaert, G. - Kort verhael van het leven ende mirakelen van de H. Pharaildis Maghet, gemeynelijck genaemt S. Veerle wordende geviert op de parochie van Steynockerzeel]. [Ibid.], s.n., (1711). 29 (of 31, title missing) pp. Ref. Not in Opac KBR. - 11. A few other sm. devotional treatises (prayers, litanies, etc.) bound in between.
Prov. "J.B. Coosemans, 1842" (2 ms. entries). - FD (monogram mounted on front pastedown).