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La Flandre à Monseigneur, 1582

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Record ID cp010445
Voet reference number 1464
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:3244671
Author Jean de la JESSÉE (GESSÉE)
Title page transcription LA FLANDRE, ‖ A MONSEIGNEVR. ‖ Plus XIIII. Sonnetz Françoys, ‖ & quelques Vers Latins. ‖ V. [typographical fleurons] ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ En l'an M.D.LXXXII.
Collation 8º [128]: A-B⁸, C⁴; pages 1-39, [40]
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Pages [1]: Title [2]: Latin dedicatory to Duke Francis [3]: illustration [4]: Blank 5-16: Text of La Flandre à Monseigneur (italic type) 17-24: Text of Sonnetz (italic type) [25]: Calliope, ad illustrissimam Angliae reginam Elisabetam (= in form of title) [26]: Blank [27-28]: Ad sereniss. Angliae reginam Elisabetam, S.P.D. (Antwerp, 18 May 1582) 29-39: Text of Latin poems [40]: Blank
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Illustrations Copper engraving: Portrait of Duke Francis (see preceding no.)
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 1.11 [12]KBR Royal Library of Belgium- without the portraitGhent University Library- without the portrait
Bibliographical references Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 817 (erroneously giving as author Jean-François Le Petit, L. D. Nederlandsche pamfletten) Not in Ruelens-de Backer
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Note 1 Contains some French and Latin poems in connection with the coming of Duke Francis of Anjou and Alençon into the Netherlands and the political situation at that moment: a) 'La Flandre à Monseigneur' (on Duke Francis in the Netherlands) (pages 5-16); b) Series of 'sonnetz' (pages 17-24): A son Altezze (pages 17-20), Sur la prise d'Alost (pages 20-21), Au Roy de Portugal (page 21), A Monsieur le Prince d'Orange (pages 21-22), Sur sa blessure [= of the Prince of Orange] (pages 22-23), Sur le trespas de Madame la Princesse d'Orange (pages 23-24); c) Calliope, ad illustrissimam Angliae reginam Elisabetam (pages 25-31; page 25: Calliope…[= in form of title]; page 26: Blank; pages 27-28: Ad sereniss. Angliae reginam Elisabetam S.P.D. [Antwerp, 18 May 1582]; pages 29-31: Anglia Francisco Franciae, et Elisabetae Anglorum reginae); d) Belgia, Francisco Franciae, duci Brabantiae, Andium, etc. (pages 32-34); e) Belgiae gratulatio, ad Guilielmum de Nassau, Auraicae principem (pages 35-36); f) Siren Lusitana, ad Antonium regem, et Franciscum Lusitaniae (pages 37-39).
Note 2 Without name of author or printer, but the former was Jean de la Jessée and the latter Plantin, as can be deduced from a copy in which both names are cited (see preceding no.). BB, III, page 817, knowing only this copy, supposes the author to be Jean-François Le Petit.
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