ROELANDS, David (ca. 1572 - not before 1617). t'Magazin oft' Pac-huys der loffelycker Penn-const . [Antwerp and Flushing: the calligrapher, 1616-17 (original issue); late-17th century (this issue)] Oblong 2° (230 x 360 mm). 33 engraved plates, including a portrait of Roelands by F. Scehelemans surrounded with calligraphy by Simon Wijnhoutsz de Vries (called Frisius), a calligraphic dedication to Jacob Malder, the remainder illustrating different kinds of script and penmanship, all engraved by Frisius after Roelands. (Without the title, letterpress text, and approximately 11 other plates; a stray leaf from a German writing manual loosely inserted.) Contemporary vellum binding. Provenance: school-prize awarded in 1720 to Anna Steenvoorden, inscribed Prys boek on front cover, and with a calligraphic inscription by the girl's writing mistress on a flyleaf Die 't beste heeft geleerd werd dit Prysboek vereerd Elizabeth Cramá 1720 . Sold as a collection of calligraphic plates, not subject to return. Roelands's writing book is one of the finest from the Golden Age of Dutch calligraphy. Early 17th-century writing-books by the great Dutch calligraphers and "French" schoolmasters were not just marketed through the regular booktrade channels, but also privately by the masters themselves and through the schools where they taught. Perhaps because of their extreme rarity, the distribution and reissues of these calligraphic manuals, by Roelands, Frisius, van den Velde and others, remain unstudied. In addition, they continued to serve as school-prizes for more than a century after original publication, when irrelevant preliminary matter was often omitted or certain plates were no longer available; existing plate counts - collations are apparently rarely or never attempted - are therefore highly unreliable. The paper in this copy belongs to French stocks produced by Jean Villedary and Claude de George for the factor Abraham Janssen in the mid to late-17th century (cf. Churchill 410, 412, 425). This issue then was printed from the original copperplates well after the writing book was first published. Bonancini 1545 (31 plates); Baltimore exhibition catalogue (1965) 92; H. de La Fontaine Verwey in Lieftinck Festschrift (1976) p. 75; A. Croiset van Uchelen, Nederlandse Schrijfmeesters , Meermanno-Westreenianum exhibition 1978, p. 21 (43 plates); Fred. Muller, Catalogue d'une collection précieuse de calligraphie 1873, no. 137 (15 plates).
ROELANDS, David (ca. 1572 - not before 1617). t'Magazin oft' Pac-huys der loffelycker Penn-const . [Antwerp and Flushing: the calligrapher, 1616-17 (original issue); late-17th century (this issue)] Oblong 2° (230 x 360 mm). 33 engraved plates, including a portrait of Roelands by F. Scehelemans surrounded with calligraphy by Simon Wijnhoutsz de Vries (called Frisius), a calligraphic dedication to Jacob Malder, the remainder illustrating different kinds of script and penmanship, all engraved by Frisius after Roelands. (Without the title, letterpress text, and approximately 11 other plates; a stray leaf from a German writing manual loosely inserted.) Contemporary vellum binding. Provenance: school-prize awarded in 1720 to Anna Steenvoorden, inscribed Prys boek on front cover, and with a calligraphic inscription by the girl's writing mistress on a flyleaf Die 't beste heeft geleerd werd dit Prysboek vereerd Elizabeth Cramá 1720 . Sold as a collection of calligraphic plates, not subject to return. Roelands's writing book is one of the finest from the Golden Age of Dutch calligraphy. Early 17th-century writing-books by the great Dutch calligraphers and "French" schoolmasters were not just marketed through the regular booktrade channels, but also privately by the masters themselves and through the schools where they taught. Perhaps because of their extreme rarity, the distribution and reissues of these calligraphic manuals, by Roelands, Frisius, van den Velde and others, remain unstudied. In addition, they continued to serve as school-prizes for more than a century after original publication, when irrelevant preliminary matter was often omitted or certain plates were no longer available; existing plate counts - collations are apparently rarely or never attempted - are therefore highly unreliable. The paper in this copy belongs to French stocks produced by Jean Villedary and Claude de George for the factor Abraham Janssen in the mid to late-17th century (cf. Churchill 410, 412, 425). This issue then was printed from the original copperplates well after the writing book was first published. Bonancini 1545 (31 plates); Baltimore exhibition catalogue (1965) 92; H. de La Fontaine Verwey in Lieftinck Festschrift (1976) p. 75; A. Croiset van Uchelen, Nederlandse Schrijfmeesters , Meermanno-Westreenianum exhibition 1978, p. 21 (43 plates); Fred. Muller, Catalogue d'une collection précieuse de calligraphie 1873, no. 137 (15 plates).
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