Beschrijving
Antwerp (T'Hantwerpen), By de Weduwe van I. Knobbert, 1648, 12mo., full parchment spitselbinding with the name of the author written on the spine, [22]+500+[26] pp., smudged and stained parchement, on the inside of the binding the coverboards are exposed as well as the parchment strips that the bookblock is sewn on, the first and last few pages (including the engraved titlepage) have worn edges, the bookblock has some stains (for example a dark stain in the table of content) but overall the printwork is clear, with framed textpages. With an engraved titlepage: ‘REVELASTI EA PARVVLIS’ and ‘PRAEMIA. PRAELIA.’ and an engraving depicting an angel visiting Mother Mary and her son Jesus: ‘In omnibis requiem quaesiui et nusquam inueni nisi in angellocum libello’ and ‘Tomas a Kempis Canonicvs Regular Obijt Ao. MCCCCLXXIXXV Iuly Aetat XCII.’ The engraving also depicts an opened book with the text: ‘In een boecxk met ee[n] boecxk’ (In a book, with a book), a humorous addition. On the back of the engraved titlepage there is a contemporary handwritten note in Dutch, by a loving son or daughter who hopes his mother rests in peace with God and is with his beloved Jannetje: ‘Op wounsdach savens ten 10 ueren so is mijn moeder saliger Margriet Amelven(?) in den Heer gheroepen op Sinte Gregor lief(?) hop Godt u heb hare siel in ghenade. Wiesen out sijn 52 harer bij mijn Jannetie Smith(?).’
