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Splendid ceremonies in Brussels 1515-1622

MEERBEECK, Adriaan de.
Theatre funebre ou sont representéez les funerailles de plusieurs princes et la vie, trespas, & magnifiques obseques de Albert Le Pie de tres haulte memoire archiduc d'Autrice, Duc de Bourgoigne, Brabant, &c. Faicts a Bruxelles le 12. de Mars, 1622.

Small vignette on the title and full-page woodcut representing a 'chapelle ardente' on the verso; large folding woodcut plate with two horses, the one dressed as a 'cheval de bataille' and the other as used 'à la pompe funebre du ... archiduc'.

Small vignette on the title and full-page woodcut representing a 'chapelle ardente' on the verso; large folding woodcut plate with two horses, the one dressed as a 'cheval de bataille' and the other as used 'à la pompe funebre du ... archiduc'.

Small vignette on the title and full-page woodcut representing a 'chapelle ardente' on the verso; large folding woodcut plate with two horses, the one dressed as a 'cheval de bataille' and the other as used 'à la pompe funebre du ... archiduc'.

Small vignette on the title and full-page woodcut representing a 'chapelle ardente' on the verso; large folding woodcut plate with two horses, the one dressed as a 'cheval de bataille' and the other as used 'à la pompe funebre du ... archiduc'.



Brussels, Ferdinand de Hoy-maecker, 1622. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, rests of ties. Small vignette on the title and full-page woodcut representing a 'chapelle ardente' on the verso; large folding woodcut plate with two horses, the one dressed as a 'cheval de bataille' and the other as used 'à la pompe funebre du ... archiduc'. (8), 278 pp.

First and only French edition of this 'splendid ceremonies': the edition of various accounts of royal funerals:

  • Don Ferdinand on 14 March 1515 as described by R. Dupuys (pp. 6-56)
  • Charles V, celebrated in Brussels in 1558 as described by Don Prudentio de Sadoval (pp. 57-96)
  • Rudolph II celebrated in Brussels 12 March 1612 from the memories of Sibrecht (pp. 97-103)
  • Alexander Farnèse, Brussels 16 December 1592 (pp. 113-114)
  • Archduke Ernest, Brussels 15-16 March 1600 (pp. 115-117)
  • Johanna of Spain, Brussels, 16 September 1555
  • Phillip II, Brussels 30-31 December 1598 and 13 September in the Escorial (pp. 128-134)

    • and, the main part:
  • Albert Archduke of Austria (pp. 135-278)

    • The work is dedicated to Aubert Lemire, dated 18 June 1622 and is composed by Adrian de Meerbeeck (1563-after 1627). In the same year the printer Ferdinand Hoy-maeker also published an edition in Dutch (Landwehr 72).

    Good copy with ownership's entry on the title: 'Ex bibliotheca Corn. Boullvens(?)'.- (Some browning; folded plate repaired with hole in one fold).
    Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 71; Biogr. Nat. Belg. 14, cols. 252-4; NCC mentions only 1 copy in the Royal Library at The Hague.

    Related Subjects: 17th Century  French  Funerals  Splendid Ceremonies 

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