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One of the earliest (and longest) Dutch poems on a country house
WESTERBAEN, Jacob.Arctoa Tempe. Ockenburgh. Woonstede van den Heere van Brandwyck. In de Clingen buyten Loosduinen.     The Hague, Johannes Rammazeyn for Anthony Tongerloo, 1654. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Title printed in red & black, folding engraved view of Ockenburgh by Adriaen Matham after the drawing by Arent Ravesteyn (and printed ('exc.') by A. Tongerloo, woodcut intials. (48), 205, (2) pp. Original edition of one of the earliest Dutch poems on a country house and on living in the country in general, more or less imitating Hofwijk (1653), a poem on the same subject by the famous Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens, the secretary of the Stadholder, who became a good friend of Westerbaen and to whom Westerbaen dedicated his work. An edition in 8vo was published the same year in Delft by Aernold Bon. This extensive laudatory poem on Westerbaen's own country house comprises nearly five thousand lines of poetry in which nature is being praised as a revelation of God. He also compares his new estate with the Tempe-valley in Greece. Jacob Westerbaen, Knight and Lord of Brantwyck-en-Ghybelant (1599-1670) was one of the most prolific poets of the Dutch Golden Age. Born from a humble family, Westerbaen was educated at the 'Staten-College' in Leiden and was one of the secretaries of the Remonstrants at the Synod of Dordrecht in 1619. After having been a minister for a short time, he returned to Leiden to study medicine. In 1623 he settled in The Hague as a physician. Two years later he married the immensely rich Anna Weytsen, the widow of Reinier van Groenevelt, who died in 1648. After her death he built Ockenburgh, a nice country house near Loosduinen just outside The Hague, where he lived a life of a wealthy 'Nouveau riche', hunting, fishing and writing poetry till his death in 1670. Westerbaen belonged to the religious moderate party, the 'Remonstrants' or 'Arminians', attacking several times the orthodox Calvinist ministers and defending Oldenbarneveld, whose well-known stick, which he used until his last minute on the scaffold, Westerbaen kept in devote custody. Westerbaen became good friends with Jacob Cats, Jan Vos and the Neo-Lain poet and Amsterdam professor Caspar Barlaeus. Laudatory poems by Constantijn Huygens, together with the answers of Westerbaen, also in verses(fols. *2r-3*1r), a letter of Jacob Cats, dated 4 March 1654, poems by Cats, dated 16 March 1654, laudatory poems by A. Naeltwyck, Willem, C. and Pieter de Groot. The poem Ockenburgh itself follows on pp. 1-162, and additional poems on pp. 163-205, with the sometimes lacking additional errata-leaf. Fine copy.- (Some water staining in the first quires, and two small tears along folds of folding plate).
Scheepers I, 167.
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