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First Blaeu edition

VISSCHER, Roemer.
Brabbelingh. By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert.

Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''.

Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''.

Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''.

Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''.



Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. (Blaeu), 1614. 16mo. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''. 220, (2) pp.

First Blaeu edition of Roemer Visscher's (1547-1620) youth verses, titled Brabbelingh ('Gibberish', or 'Baby-talk'). It is a curious collection of verses, divided into 7 'Schocks' of 'Quicken' (epigrams: pp. 9-101); 2 Schocks of 'Rommelsoo' (rubbish, litter: p. 102-122); 'Raedtselen' (riddles: pp. 123-126); 'Tuyters' (laudatory poems: pp. 127-136); 'Jammertjens' (lamentations: pp. 137-150); 'Tepel-wercken' (poems from his early youth, such as 'T lof van rethorica', 'Het lof van een blauwe scheen', and 'T lof van de mutse' (pp. 151-186).
On pp. 187-202 there are several poems by Roemer Visscher's friend Hendrick Laurensz. Spiegel (1549-1612), followed by 'T lof van het dansen', pp. 203-209, and some 'unknown' poems, pp. 210-212. His  'Brabbelingh' wasanonymously published earlier,  in 1612,  as part of  ''T  lof van de mutze ende van een blauwe  scheen met noch andere ghenoeghelijcke boerten' by Jan Paeds Jacobsz. in Leyden without the author's knowing. A third edition was published in Amsterdam by Johannes van Ravesteijn in 1669 without the plates.
All these unpolished, sometimes quite rude youth verses, however, are mirroring the daily life in Amsterdam during the last decades of the sixteenth century in an inspiring and unprecedented way. The two friends, Roemer Visscher and Hendrick Laurensz. Spiegel are walking in Amsterdam, joking about almost everything, including girls, priests and the Catholic faith, and alluding to the gossip of the day. This work is often bound together with the Visscher's Zinne-poppen.

Fine copy.- (Annotation in ink on first blank; library stamp  on verso of title).
Simoni V-201; De Vries, Emblemata, 56 (1669 edition); Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden VII, 75; STCN 7 copies.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry 

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