OLTHOF, JAN, Israëls leider mozes, in Dichtmaate voorgesteld by de Rédenkamer der Witte Angieren: Bekend van de Zinspreuk In Liefde Getrouw: Op den eersten dag van het 1736ste Jaar.

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Haarlem, Mozes van Hulkenroy, 1736, 4to., red speckled paper cover, 12 pp., beautiful printwork in good condition with an engraved printer's mark on the title page (Typographia Huc Primum Inventa A L.Costero MCCCCXXIIX: referring to Laurens Janszoon Coster as the inventor of printing) and a lovely woodcut tailpiece to mark the end of the poem. The ‘Witte Angieren’ was a ‘rederijkerskamer’ (association of rhetoric artists) in Haarlem consisting mainly of immigrants from Vlaanderen (Flanders). The Rederijkerskamer was acknowledged by the city counsil in 1592. Members were: the painter Carel van Mander, Jan Olthof, Jacob van der Schuere and Izaak van der Vinne.