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Tekstoverlevering van een Middelnederlands ridderdicht
Authors: van Iherusalem Segheliin 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe Middle Dutch verse romance Segheliin van Iherusalem has survived in the following known extant copies: a manuscript (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS. Germ. fol. 922, fos. 71r.-122v., on the basis of the watermarks dated by the present author c. 1412-15); an incunabulum (Ghent University Library, Res. 1405 (between 1483 and 1486)); five post-incunabula, all printed in Antwerp (1511-40) and now in The Hague (2 copies), Leiden, Vienna and Paris; and a mid fifteenth-century excerpt (Brussels, Royal Library, Hs. II 116, fos. 2v.-5r.). These sources, all rhyming texts, are described here, and the excerpt is given in full. The gap still facing students of the Segheliin has thus been filled. Both manuscript and incunabulum are incomplete at the end. The text in the sixteenth-century editions differs widely from that of the manuscript version. For its part the incunabulum departs from the text of the post-incunabula with a version (perhaps closer to the original?) which in very many places tends towards the manuscript version, being something of a watershed between the two traditions. Preliminary investigation of the linguistic levels in the text, carried out on the basis of changes in the rhyme words, points to a Flemish and probably more specifically west or south-west Flemish base level (possibly the area where Ingvaonic and Brabantish meet (the region of the Dender), above which there is at least a Brabantish level. This fact, combined with the possibility of an interpretation of the Segheliin to some extent in terms of the context of the medieval veneration of the Cross and the Blood of Christ, more than suggests that the story is of Flemish origin.
Thomas Basson (1555-1613), English printer at Leiden
Authors: Basson Thomas 
Published: April 2008

AbstractSince the appearance in 1961 of the author's Thomas Basson 1555-1613: English Printer at Leiden, a number of new facts have come to light. Moreover, thirty-three new titles can be added to the checklist of Basson's publications, plus a considerable number of theses printed by Thomas Basson. This brings the total number of Basson imprints to c. 450 instead of the original 180. It is now clear, however, that all or nearly all 1585-7 Basson imprints are books or pamphlets printed for him by others. One of the interesting discoveries since 1961 is a copy of The Coniugations in Englishe and Netherdutche (1586), translated and prefaced by Basson himself. It is the first English-Dutch grammar in history, and was dedicated to the Leiden magistrates. New information clarifies Basson's move to Leiden from Cologne in 1583/4 and his involvement in the 'Family of Love', but the evidence remains circumstantial. In 1593/4 the first Basson press was set up. At first it was capable only of very small books and pamphlets, mainly theses, carmina, and auction catalogues. In 1603-6, however, the Basson press got involved in a major publication: Scaliger's Thesaurus temporum. Passages from Scaliger's correspondence show that Thomas Basson and his son Govert were learning their trade the hard way. After 1606 full-length books became a standard feature of their printing house 'At the Sign of the Music-Book'. The 1606 Thesaurus is also interesting because a specially made music-book device on the title page represents an actual piece of music which turns out to be a two-part canon. One other aspect of the Basson press, finally, is also discussed: its apparent interest in occult books.
Emanuel van Meteren's History as source for the cartography of the Netherlands
Authors: Van Der Heyden H.A.M. , Simoni Translation Anna E. C. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe author discusses the publishing history of ten rare maps of the Low Countries - the XVII Provinces -, which occur in the numerous Dutch, German, Latin and French editions of Emanuel van Meteren's 'Dutch History'. [The title of the first Dutch edition is Memorien der Belgische ofte Nederlantsche historie, van onse tijden [...] (Delft, J. C. Vennecool, 1599).] The first of these maps, almost certainly the work of Frans Hogenberg, may have been published as early as 1582; the tenth map, occurring in Jan Jacobsz Schipper's Dutch Van Meteren edition of 1647, is a second state of Willem Jansz Blaeu's map of 1604. This map appears to be a copy of the one J. B. Vrients used in 1608 for an Ortelius edition, the engraving of which - before 1588 - has been attributed to Philips Galle. Although much has been written about Van Meteren's work and the historical plates included in it, the maps have met with little interest. This in itself is proof that historical cartography is to some degree the stepchild of historiography - after all the maps in Van Meteren's 'History' discussed in this article are among the oldest of the Netherlands.
The mysterious writing-master Clemens Perret and his two copy-books
Authors: Croiset Van Uchelen Ton 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn the first half of the 17th century penmanship in the Dutch Republic flourished as never before or since. Responsible for this flowering were a number of schoolmasters from Brabant and Flanders who in the 1570s and 80s had fled to the North and had settled there as writing-masters. To what level they had raised calligraphy may be seen from a large number of manuscript and printed writing-books that have been preserved. Just as they inspired their followers in years to come they had themselves found a source of inspiration in the two copy-books of Clemens Perret, brought out in 1569 and 1571. The earlier of these, the Exercitatio alphabetica, was not only the first ever to be reproduced entirely by copper engraving, but also the first with examples in seven languages, all of them written in the appropriate hands. Moreover in this book, the first to be produced in the Low Countries in such a large, oblong size, all plates had lavishly executed borders, designed on an architectural framework on which a variety of objects, human figures, grotesques, animals and so on were depicted. The book was obviously designed for collectors, wealthy connoisseurs and fellow writing-masters. The later book, the Eximiae peritiae alphabetum, although containing an equal number of plates, likewise in seven languages and in various hands, lacks the beautiful borders and is of slightly smaller size. It is altogether a more modestly conceived book, surely intended for use at school. Little is known about Perret's life. The title-pages of his books tell us that he was born in Brussels in 1551. A poem in a writing-book by Jacobus Houthusius, published in 1591, refers to his death. A contemporary manuscript note in a pamphlet of 1583 states that the writer Etienne Perret was his father. In the Plantin archives it is recorded that he had a brother, named Paul, and a sister. In a pamphlet of 1599 the writing-master Jan van den Velde states that Perret went to England to serve Queen Elizabeth's Chancellor as writing-master and teach the Queen the Italian hand. This seems unlikely as the Queen is known to have learned italic handwriting from Roger Ascham, while still a girl. The author has examined 26 copies of the Exercitatio in public collections and distinguishes two different editions. The first was probably brought out by Perret himself. Nearly all its plates contain errors in spelling, punctuation and word division. When Plantin took the distribution of the book in hand these mistakes were corrected and another plate added, containing within an engraved border a privilege with the text in letterpress: the 2nd edition. A variant of this edition is identical but for the privilege which is now engraved. The 2nd edition, corrected
New light on the Gouda Erasmiana manuscripts 1
Authors: Klein J.W.E. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractTwo copyists ('A' and 'B') worked on the two Erasmiana manuscripts, known since the publication of P. S. Allen's Opus epistolarum (vol. 1, app. ix) as 'the Gouda Manuscripts'. Both copyists must have been monks of Steyn monastery near Gouda. The hand of copyist 'A' (c. 1520-5), who wrote part of MS 1323 and the whole of MS 1324, can also be found in some page fillings in a Diurnale, which was written in Steyn monastery and is now preserved in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, under shelf-mark 71 J 67. Since 'A' was a monk we should not identify him with the physician Reinier Snoy (cf. Reedijk, Des. Erasmus, Poems). Copyist 'B', who completed MS 1323, was active in c. 1590. This can be established on the basis of the watermarks and the identification of the printed works (published in the 1580s) from which 'B' made abstracts. Copyist 'B' cannot thus be identified with Alardus of Amsterdam who died in 1544 (cf. Reedijk, op. cit.). Archival research has shown that both Erasmiana manuscripts arrived in the Gouda Town Library in 1643, after the confiscation of the Library of Steyn monastery.
A further book printed in Vianen and Wesel
Authors: Valkema Blouw Paul 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn an earlier number of this journal I described a Dutch New Testament of 1567, issued without an imprint, which consists of two adjoining parts printed in completely different typefaces. The remarkable typographical composition of the book was my point of departure for reconstructing the stock of books published by the printer Augustijn van Hasselt when he acted as Christopher Plantin's factor first in Vianen and then in Wesel. That analysis is now confirmed by the discovery of a Psalmbook from the same year composed in a similar manner. Plantin's secret enterprise thus acquires a still wider range and we can see even more clearly how eager he was to occupy a position in the profitable market of Bible editions in the vernacular.
Paulus de Kempenaer and Petrus Plancius
Authors: Obbema Pieter , Hamilton Alastair 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn November 1989 the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam purchased three emblems signed by Paulus de Kempenaer, dated 1597, and forming a self-contained whole. This article offers an interpretation of them. An acrostic in the poem beneath the third emblem tells us that the work was intended for Petrus Plancius. The first emblem representing a man separating the corn from the chaff and the other two, each representing a goose, are a message to the great cartographer, urging him to ignore his rivals and to 'stand fast' in his convictions. The numerous Scriptural references remind him that the end of time is at hand and that the virtuous will soon have their reward. Later marginal notes, however, show the development of Paulus de Kempenaer's ideas after the emblems were completed and his sympathies for the Remonstrant movement. The work thus illustrates various aspects of Dutch culture and history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Thomas Harding, Joannes Bogardus et An answere to maister Iuelles chalenge: le contrat de 1563
Authors: Vanhulst Henri 
Published: April 2008

AbstractA notarial deed drawn up at Louvain on 29 November 1563 specifies a number of details concerning the printing of Thomas Harding's An answere to maister Iuelles chalenge. It appears that the printer Joannes Bogardus must have finished printing 750 copies of the book by 3 February 1564, whereas the author has committed himself to correct the proofs and to provide the printer with fifty-six reams of paper. At the end of each week the author will pay the printer an advance as the work proceeds, the rate of which has been fixed at 41 stivers for three formes.
Jan van der Noot's Het Bosken re-examined
Authors: Waterschoot Werner 
Published: April 2008

AbstractHitherto it has been assumed that Jan van der Noot's Het Bosken was printed by Henry Bynneman in London. The present investigation shows that this book was the work of two printers: Bynneman printed quires A-I, a colleague, possibly John Day, quires K-L. This is shown by differences in the typographical material, the make of the paper, the type area, the treatment of signatures and catchwords and the spelling habits of the two compositors. This division of labour between the two printers came about on the author's own initiative as he wished to speed up the printing of his book. This places the printing of Het Bosken in 1571 rather than 1570. Three copies of the book are recorded, apart from a recently discovered reissue (Cologne 1572, entitled Verscheiden Poetixe Wercken). There are individual differences between all the copies in their manner of compilation. These adaptations go back to Van der Noot who prepared every copy for a well-defined addressee. The three copies appear to have been distributed, not any more in England, but in the Rhineland where Van der Noot had moved in 1571.
Newly discovered Wierix prints for Plantin's books of hours
Authors: Lee Bowen Karen 
Published: April 2008

AbstractAmong the illustrations used for a 4to Missale Romanum published by Christopher Plantin in 1585 are five prints by Jan Wierix and four anonymous copies of his work, none of which are in Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx's extensive catalogue, Les Estampes des Wierix (Brussels 1978-83). This new group of religious prints and an already known group of comparably scaled Wierix engravings appear formerly to have been part of a single series of images. A consideration of both the subjects represented and archival evidence suggests that the series had been commissioned for the illustration of books of hours and not the missals in which the engravings are seen today. Finally, a similar examination of the subjects represented in two other sets of Wierix plates catalogued by Mauquoy-Hendrickx (but not part of any known book) suggests that they may also have originally been intended for the illustration of books of hours.
Predated Protestant works in Nijhoff-Kronenberg
Authors: Valkema Blouw Paul 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThis article follows on from my earlier piece in this journal, 'The Van Oldenborch and Vanden Merberghe pseudonyms'. With the demonstration that these were not true people but pseudonyms - the first was even used by various printers - the picture of the history of the Dutch Protestant book has been substantially altered. It was not these 'phantoms' who were the most important publishers in this domain, but Adriaen van Berghen, Matthaeus Crom, and the latter's brother-in-law Steven Mierdmans, while, after 1550, the hitherto unknown Frans Fraet occupied the most prominent position. About half the Dutch-language books which Dr Kronenberg included in her systematic index under the heading Luther: Voor en tegen de Hervorming, appear to date from after 1540 and thus fall actually outside the chronological limits of the Nederlandsche Bibliographie van 1500 tot 1540. We also see that the existing view according to which the role of Antwerp was exhausted after 1540 must be revised. Only after the execution of Fraet at the beginning of 1558 did Emden manage to corner the market. Besides giving a supplementary record of works which have received too early a dating from Nijhoff-Kronenberg, this article gives the titles of a number of theological books which have wrongly been omitted.
A Cologne printer working for William of Orange: Godfried Hirtzhorn jun., 1568-72
Authors: Valkema Blouw Paul 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe report of Alva's arrival as Philip II's captain-general and the announcement that all those would be prosecuted who had had any connection with the troubles of 1566 led to a massive emigration from the Netherlands. The leader of the Dutch Revolt, William of Orange, withdrew to Germany in order to lead the rebellion from Dillenburg. In order to do this he chose a highly modern medium: the printing press, which was to play a decisive role in arousing the population to armed resistance against Spanish rule. As his collaborator in the propaganda campaign the Prince selected another fugitive, the town pensionary of Antwerp Jacob van Wesenbeke. The latter soon proved immensely active: in 1568 and 1569, on the orders and at the
Saint Jean Chrysostome Et Les Spectacles
Authors: Vandenberghe Bruno H. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIs there an opposition between spectacles and the Church? Such is the question that normally comes to one's mind in reading the diatribes of the Fathers of the Church against spectacles. The subject is thicklish and should be handled with precision and tact, without preconceived prejudice. In examining the passages on the subject in ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, the author has precisely made the attempt to solve the problem. Methodical in his proceedings, he first examines the part, spectacles played in the life of the peoples of A n t i o c h and C o n s t a n t i n o p l e. So engrossed with the love of spectacles had they become, that the only two things, requested from their masters by this frivolous population, were: bread and games! The whole of Antioch, the whole of Constantinople was to be found in the Circus or in the Theatre. On holidays, christians rushed to the hippodrome, with the same ardor as the pagans. Like so many of the Fathers, C h r y s o s t o m , condemned this frequentation, which he considered an apostasy and a return to the idols, one of the greatest enemies of purity and one of the most serious obstacles to his pastoral mission. Seldom does he attack comedies and tragedies, directing his most strenuous efforts against Pantomimes. In latter years, taking up again the same textes, B o s- s u e t fell into regrettable exaggerations. Austere moralist and rigorist, he condemned the theatre without discrimination. In locating the debates, by first giving an historical account of the struggles which divided the Church and the theatre, the author ascertains that nowadays a more charitable and just conception of the spectacle and the artist, dedicating his life thereto, has been reached. The pleasure of the spectacle is innocent in itself and the Catholic Church finds no fault with it: the sole requirement, the Church imposes, being that this pleasure, in its application, be subjected to the principles of christian morals.
Practical Theology: from Applied to Empirical Theology
Authors: van der Ven J.A. , Van Der Ven Johannes A. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn this article the history of practical theology is reconstructed from the perspective of its main problem: the relation between theory and praxis. The first part refers to the academic status of practical theology, interpreted as applied theology. This interpretation fails to solve the problem, as we shall see. The second part entails a proposal towards the re-interpretation of practical theology in terms of empirical theology. After a critical reflection upon the history of this term, already in use since the beginning of this century, the material and the formal object are described, including some methodological aspects of it.
The Proceedings Concerning Prompt Release of Vessels and Crews before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Authors: Treves Tullio 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe proceedings for the prompt release of vessels set out in Article 292 of the Law of the Sea Convention are independent from domestic as well as from other international proceedings. The dispute consists in a disagreement between the parties when a ship flying the flag of a State Party has been detained by another party in violation of the provisions of the Convention for prompt release of vessels upon posting of bond or other financial security. These provisions are Articles 73(2), 220(6) and 220(7), and 226(b) and (c). It is argued that the prompt release proceedings can be resorted to also when the vessel has been detained in contravention to a provision of the Convention prohibiting detention. This might make the proceedings relevant for detention in violation of the 1995 Convention on Straddling Fish Stocks. The proceedings start with an application for release, which may be submitted by the flag state or on its behalf, and have to meet two requirements: reaching a decision expeditiously and ensuring that both parties have a fair chance to present their case. The case will in principle be heard by the full Tribunal even though it may be expedient to formulate rules that permit a Chamber to hear it, without jeopardizing the applicable principles. A hearing is the fulcrum of the proceedings. The decision of the Tribunal-which seems to meet the requirements of a "judgment"-brings the proceedings to a close. The decision shall be final. The detaining state is bound to release the vessel promptly as soon as a bond or other financial security has been posted by the flag state. The decision is also binding as to the reasonableness of the bond or security. In determining whether a bond or security is reasonable two parameters seem essential: the value of the vessel and the amount of the damage or of the monetary penalties claimed. Other elements may, however, be relevant. They may be different according to which rule of the Convention concerning prompt release has been violated. An administrative phase comes after the decision on prompt release. It concerns the utilization of the bond or security.
Observations on Vessel Release under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Authors: Oxman Bernard H. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIf a foreign ship is detained by a coastal or port state, the flag state may contest the legality of the detention and submit the case to a court or tribunal having jurisdiction under the general dispute settlement provisions of the Convention. Article 292 sets up a more circumscribed, additional procedure for vessel release. It does not entail the submission of a dispute on the merits to a court or tribunal for judgment. The matter must be dealt with "without delay". Articles 294 and 295 are arguably not relevant. Local proceedings are unaffected and local remedies need not be exhausted. Application can be made "by or on behalf" of the flag state. The text provides an alternative. The words "on behalf of" present an option that is not already provided by the word "by". Therefore, these words should be understood to permit the flag state to dispense with the need for official communication from its government in connection with each application for release, such as is necessary for an application "by" the flag state. Instead, the state may designate in advance natural or judicial persons (e.g. owners or operators), who are authorized to bring applications for release on its behalf. Since no application for release "on behalf of the flag State" may be made against its will, the flag state may change, qualify or withdraw its designations at any time. While there is no doubt that the German Government will permit parties before the Tribunal to be represented by counsel of their choice, without regard to the country in which counsel is licensed to practise law, the question remains whether foreign counsel will be permitted to maintain an office in Hamburg even when they are not working on a case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. This is, however, less a question of Germany's international obligations, than a question of whether Germany wishes to promote the idea that Hamburg is a global centre for legal activity related to the Law of the Sea.