Rerum gestarum a Brabantiae Ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta [...].

Sm. 8vo: [148] ff. (upper margin of title cut out and ms. entry hidden).

Mod. half blond leather, marbled paper boards, flat spine with red leather label.

Extremely rare first edition of this humanist history of Brabant up to Charles V, written by the Leuven professor Van Baerland (1486-1542), pioneer during the humanist movement in the Netherlands. Concerning a.o. the foundations of the Parc abbey by Godfrey the Bearded and of Leuven University in 1425, the passage of a comet in 1472, the fire at the Premonstratensian monastery and library in Middelburg in 1492 and the Joyous Entry of Philip the Handsome into Leuven in 1504.
Ref. BB I:154-155. - Nijhoff & Kronenberg 236. - Machiels B-112. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Ms. note of purchase in London, 25-9-1835, signed "Félix".