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ADRIAEN VALERIUS (1575-1625)
Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck. Veere, Zeeland: [Adriaen Rooman] for the heirs of the author, 1626. Oblong 4° (198 x 254mm). Gothic and roman types, typeset music. Title with typeset music. 9 engraved full-page illustrations, one by Pieter Serwouters after A. van de Venne, another 4 possibly by Serwouters [Hollstein XXVI, Serwouters 71-75], and one by Daniel van der Bremden, woodcut initials. (Light dampstaining and occasional spotting or marking, clean, neatly-repaired tears on title, O2 and T2 reinforced at the lower and inner edges and possibly supplied from another copy, paper flaws slightly affecting text on U4 and X3, small hole in 2M4, 2O4 affected by damp and neatly repaired, lacking errata leaf [2P]1.) Contemporary Dutch vellum, the boards panelled in blind and with central blind-stamped strapwork lozenges, red-speckled edges, the spine blind-tooled in compartments and titled in manuscript (vellum lightly marked, boards a little bowed, upper hinge split).
FIRST EDITION. THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL ANTHEM 'WILLEM VAN NASSOUWE'. The posthumously-published Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck was a politically-inspired work, intended to reinforce a sense of Dutch nationality amongst its readers and to raise morale in the struggle against the Spanish. The text, which chronicles contemporary Dutch history, is illustrated by nine finely-engraved plates which depict the progress of the Dutch nation--symbolised by a lion--and its military triumphs, colonial expansion and acquisitions, and the arrival of the West-Indische Compagnie in America.
Interspersed through the text are 76 popular songs, many with texts by Valerius, including 'Willem van Nassouwe'; it is for these songs that the work is now best-known. Although some of them had appeared previously, the Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck is important in the history of printed music because Valerius printed all the tunes of the accompaniments (of one or more seven-stringed lutes and four-stringed cittern) with the texts, rather than simply giving the names of the tunes to which the texts were set, as other collections of songs did. BL Catalogue of Printed Music 1487-1800, II, p.615; Graesse VII, p.240; RISM V-147.
Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck. Veere, Zeeland: [Adriaen Rooman] for the heirs of the author, 1626. Oblong 4° (198 x 254mm). Gothic and roman types, typeset music. Title with typeset music. 9 engraved full-page illustrations, one by Pieter Serwouters after A. van de Venne, another 4 possibly by Serwouters [Hollstein XXVI, Serwouters 71-75], and one by Daniel van der Bremden, woodcut initials. (Light dampstaining and occasional spotting or marking, clean, neatly-repaired tears on title, O2 and T2 reinforced at the lower and inner edges and possibly supplied from another copy, paper flaws slightly affecting text on U4 and X3, small hole in 2M4, 2O4 affected by damp and neatly repaired, lacking errata leaf [2P]1.) Contemporary Dutch vellum, the boards panelled in blind and with central blind-stamped strapwork lozenges, red-speckled edges, the spine blind-tooled in compartments and titled in manuscript (vellum lightly marked, boards a little bowed, upper hinge split).
FIRST EDITION. THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL ANTHEM 'WILLEM VAN NASSOUWE'. The posthumously-published Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck was a politically-inspired work, intended to reinforce a sense of Dutch nationality amongst its readers and to raise morale in the struggle against the Spanish. The text, which chronicles contemporary Dutch history, is illustrated by nine finely-engraved plates which depict the progress of the Dutch nation--symbolised by a lion--and its military triumphs, colonial expansion and acquisitions, and the arrival of the West-Indische Compagnie in America.
Interspersed through the text are 76 popular songs, many with texts by Valerius, including 'Willem van Nassouwe'; it is for these songs that the work is now best-known. Although some of them had appeared previously, the Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck is important in the history of printed music because Valerius printed all the tunes of the accompaniments (of one or more seven-stringed lutes and four-stringed cittern) with the texts, rather than simply giving the names of the tunes to which the texts were set, as other collections of songs did. BL Catalogue of Printed Music 1487-1800, II, p.615; Graesse VII, p.240; RISM V-147.
Provenance
Early accession number inscribed on title.
Occasional annotations.
19th-century accession label pasted onto foot of spine.
P. Verloren (ownership inscription on flyleaf).
A.I. Nieland (inscription on flyleaf recording purchase at auction).
A.A. Nijland, 1 November 1902 (inscriptions on flyleaf and title).
With Nico Israel, Amsterdam (bookseller), catalogue 25 (Spring 1989), item 120, acquired by Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-36).
Occasional annotations.
19th-century accession label pasted onto foot of spine.
P. Verloren (ownership inscription on flyleaf).
A.I. Nieland (inscription on flyleaf recording purchase at auction).
A.A. Nijland, 1 November 1902 (inscriptions on flyleaf and title).
With Nico Israel, Amsterdam (bookseller), catalogue 25 (Spring 1989), item 120, acquired by Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-36).
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