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One of the best Dutch writing master's books
ROELANDS, David.T' Magazin oft' pac-huys der loffelycker penn-const; vol subtyle ende lustighe trecken percken beelden. ende figuren van menschen, van beesten, voghelen, ende visschen, ende noch meer van hondert onderscheyden gheschriften verciert met divaersche capitalen oraculen, ende gulden sententien: alles tot profyt, oeffeninghe ende spore der const-lievende gheesten.      (Vlissingen), 1616 (i.e. 1617). Oblong folio. 19th-century three quarter vellum, spine with title calligraphed in ink, marbled boards. Engraved title and 44 engraved plates of ca. 230 x 330mm. with calligraphed texts and images, including a portrait of Roelands. (Engr. title), 5 lvs with printed text, (32 engr. lvs), 1 leaf with printed text, (12 engr. lvs). Very rare first and only edition of this famous Dutch writing master's book by David Roelands (born in Antwerp in 1572). Roelands came to Zeeland as a 'French Schoolmaster', first teaching in Goes and from ca. 1613 on in Vlissingen (Flushing). He became famous as a writing master and calligrapher. The writing master's book belongs undoubtedly to the most impressive calligraphic works produced in The Netherlands in the seventeenth century. The plates are engraved by the famous engraver Simon Wynouts Frisius (Simon de Vries; ca. 1580-1629), who also engraved the plates for Jan van den Velde's Spieghel der Schrijfkonste (1605). The portrait of Roelands, however, is engraved by François Schillemans (Scehelemans; ca. 1575-after 1620). The calligraphical texts above and left and right are by Frisius. The texts of the plates are calligraphed in many different scripts with abundant marginal penwork in the form of animals, birds, persons, ships, etc. Our copy is from the famous Meulman collection and is one of the few complete copies known. Contents: - Engraved title-page: "... door David Roelands van Antwerpen, Fransoijschen School-Mr binnen Vlissingen Anno 1616". - 5 lvs. with printed text: 1r: 'Extract uyt de Privilegie', dated The Hague 6 December 1616; 1v: acronym (sonnet) of the name 'David Roelands'; 2r-v: dedication by Roelands to the magistrate of Vlissingen, dated Vlissingen, 3 January 1617; 3r-4v: Preface to the Reader, dated Vlissingen 24 January 1617,in which Roelands mentions his admired predecessors such as Paret in Brabant, Beauchene in England, Guillaume le Gaingneur and Beaugrand in France and Boissens, Smyters, Felix and Vanden Velde in Holland; 5r-v: two laudatory sonnets by 'M.G.' and 'God is mijn Roer'. - the portrait of Roelands, dated 1616 when he was 44 years old. - 31 plates with calligraphed texts in many different scripts (one partly in Greek) from a mediaeval textura, and cursive bookhands, to humanistic scripts, decorated with elaborated capitals and marginal penwerk with images of all kinds of animals and birds, angels, human figures, warriors, writing hands holding a quill, quills, ships, a very complicated monogram of his name. - One leaf with four printed laudatory poems by R. Lubbaeus, rector of the Latin School at Bergen op Zoom, Tobias van de Werve from Goes, 'A.V.P.', and by his friend Abraham van Pere, a wealthy merchant. - Another 12 calligraphic plates. Very good complete copy from the Meulman collection (Cat. Bibl. Meulman 4214)with Meulman's bookplate ("Grypt als 't rypt") pasted to the back of the front cover.- (Some occ. spotting, some lvs. skilfully repaired and/or strengthened).
Bonacini 1545; Berlin, Kat. 5015; Van der Willigen 1167; Jessen 2501; Lexikon d. ges. Buchw. 6, col. 331; NNBW IX, cols. 870-71; for the portrait: Van Someren 4558*; Hollstein XXVI, p. 11, nr. 6.
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