Alitologia seu Veritatis explicatio qua praepositura, nuncupata Cappellae, (quae ab aliquibus, a Duce Godefrido Barbato extra muros antiquos oppidi Bruxellen. olim fundata asseritur) ad incudem revocatur, & ad veram amussim delineata, palam omnibus exponitur.

4to: [8]-190 [= 192]-40 (of 48) pp. (last quire G missing, upper flyleaf loose, a few. contemp. marginal notes).

Contemp. overl. vellum (sl. soiled), flat spine titled in ink, red edges. Good copy.

Very rare first edition of this book on the Brussels Chapel Church, by D. van Mauden (Antwerp 1575-1641 Brussels), priest of the church 1609-1622 and later dean at the Church of Our Lady in Breda. The chapel which would become the Chapel Church (Kapellekerk/Église de la Chapelle), was donated by Count Godefroy I of Leuven ("The Bearded", 1060-1139) to Benedictine monks, and stood outside the first city walls of Brussels. In the 13th c., it became the second parish church of the city of Brussels, which was not to the liking of the chapter of St. Gudula, as Brussels' first and mother church. When in 1619 and 1632, difficulties arose between the parish church and the deanship ("proosdij") of the church, depending to the Abbey of Cambrai, Van Mauden aims to prove in this book, that the Chapel Church parish is fully separated from the deanship.
Ref. STCV (1 copy in Mechelen). - Opac KBR.