Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis : Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis Principibus coniunctionem ... breuiter : turbas autem bella et mutationes tempore Regis Philippi, Caroli V ... ad annum usque 1598 ... / conscripta & ... inscripta A.E. Meterano Belga ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612.

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.

Netherlands.

History.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 623 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : double map, portraits ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Belgi[ca] histor[ia] universalis liber

Place of Publication:

[Antwerp] : [publisher not identified], [1598]

Notes:

Translation of a ms. subsequently published (Delft 1599 and later), with additions, under title: Historie der Nederlandsche ende haerder Naburen Oorlogen en Geschiedenissen (and variants). Cf. LC, BN.

Place of publication from BM STC Dutch 1470-1600; date from LC, BN.

Signatures: (?)⁴ A-3E⁶ 3F⁴ 3G-3H⁶.

Leaf 3H6 is blank; leaves 2T1-3 signed 2S1-3.

The 24 portraits are on rectos or versos of text leaves, but are not included in numbering; they are counted in the register. Some of the portraits on slightly oversize leaves folded back or cropped at front-edge. Double map tipped onto stub. Page numbers 6-7, 191, 469 omitted, 8-9, 364-365 repeated. Numerous page numbers misprinted.

Title in engraved pictorial frame; initials.

Preface dated 1597.

Cited in:

BM STC Dutch and Flemish 1470-1600, p. 133

OCLC:

28609928