![ROELANDS, David (b. ca 1472). T'Magazin Oft Pac-huys der Loffelycker Penn-const. Flushing: French School, 1616[-1617], reissued as school prizes at Leyden by Elizabeth Crama: [1720-]1721.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02800_0675_000(roelands_david_tmagazin_oft_pac-huys_der_loffelycker_penn-const_flushi094026).jpg?w=1)
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ROELANDS, David (b. ca 1472). T'Magazin Oft Pac-huys der Loffelycker Penn-const. Flushing: French School, 1616[-1617], reissued as school prizes at Leyden by Elizabeth Crama: [1720-]1721.
Oblong half broadsheets (245 x 365mm). 36 engraved calligraphic plates by Simon Frisius after Roelands, including F. Schelemans' portrait of the writing-master and the calligraphic title. (Light staining.) Early 18th-century Dutch prize binding of vellum over pasteboard, inscribed on front cover: Prys-boek, (covers stained). Provenance: Jonkhr. [Lord] Johan Vander Mark (calligraphic school-prize inscription); C.F. van Veen (1912-82, Dutch collector of children's books and calligraphy); acquired from Lathrop Harper 1984.
Since Dutch engraved writing books of the 17th century were often privately produced and distributed by the schoolmaster-calligraphers themselves, with only a limited issue reserved for the established book and print trade, they can present difficult bibliographical problems. Collections of remainder sheets of writing books by Roelands, Frisisus and other masters were distributed as prizes to pupils in schools at Leyden, 's-Hertogenbosch and numerous other places, sometimes over many decades. The present school-prize copy of Magazin contains only 36 plates, reduced from the 45 plates of the original Flushing issue, which was sold 105 years earlier with a letterpress introduction and a States-General approbation. At least one other set inscribed by the calligrapher Elizabeth Crama to a prize pupil is known (containing 41 sheets, English private collection). Bonacini 1545; 2000 Years of Calligraphy (Baltimore exhibition catalogue) 92; A. Croiset van Uchelen, Nederlandse Schrijfmeesters uit de zeventiende eeuw (exhibition catalogue Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum 1978), p. 21.
Oblong half broadsheets (245 x 365mm). 36 engraved calligraphic plates by Simon Frisius after Roelands, including F. Schelemans' portrait of the writing-master and the calligraphic title. (Light staining.) Early 18th-century Dutch prize binding of vellum over pasteboard, inscribed on front cover: Prys-boek, (covers stained). Provenance: Jonkhr. [Lord] Johan Vander Mark (calligraphic school-prize inscription); C.F. van Veen (1912-82, Dutch collector of children's books and calligraphy); acquired from Lathrop Harper 1984.
Since Dutch engraved writing books of the 17th century were often privately produced and distributed by the schoolmaster-calligraphers themselves, with only a limited issue reserved for the established book and print trade, they can present difficult bibliographical problems. Collections of remainder sheets of writing books by Roelands, Frisisus and other masters were distributed as prizes to pupils in schools at Leyden, 's-Hertogenbosch and numerous other places, sometimes over many decades. The present school-prize copy of Magazin contains only 36 plates, reduced from the 45 plates of the original Flushing issue, which was sold 105 years earlier with a letterpress introduction and a States-General approbation. At least one other set inscribed by the calligrapher Elizabeth Crama to a prize pupil is known (containing 41 sheets, English private collection). Bonacini 1545; 2000 Years of Calligraphy (Baltimore exhibition catalogue) 92; A. Croiset van Uchelen, Nederlandse Schrijfmeesters uit de zeventiende eeuw (exhibition catalogue Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum 1978), p. 21.