Splendid Ceremony (1 results)

3 works in 1 volume. Illustrated accounts of three grand public religious festivals in the Southern Netherlands. Ad 1 is a beautiful series of engravings celebrating the 1000-year jubilee of Saint Rumoldus. Ad 2 records a festival on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Blessed Sacrament, organized by the Jesuit College in Brussels. And ad 3, finally, describes the 700-year Jubilee of Saint Macarius, who aided those suffering from the plague, celebrated in Ghent.Ad 1: tear in plate between pp. 20-21; some plates slightly frayed and browned; ad 2: original leaves cut out and mounted on larger paper; ad 3: browning throughout. Top of spine slightly damaged. Good copies.l Ad 1: Bibliotheca Hulthemiana IV, 27864 (15 plates only); Berlin Kat. 3168 (15 plates only); ad 2: De Backer & Sommervogel II, cols. 295-296; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 226; ad 3: Praz, p. 426; Berlin Kat. 3167; Landwehr, Emblem Books Low Countries 431. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Pages: [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp. With:(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade, verciert met praelwagens die zal uytgevoert worden door de jonkheyd van het gymnasiums der Societeyt Jesu , ter oorsaeke van het vier-honderd-jaerig jubilé van het alderheyligst sacrament van mirakel binnen Brussel den 16 en 29 julii 1770.Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius, bezonderen patroon tegen de peste, het welk geviert zal worden binnen de stad Gend, hoofdstad van Vlaenderen, te beginnen met 30 mey tot den 15 juny, 1767, met de voordere uytlegginge van de plechtigheden, cavalcade, vercierselen, vierwerk, en andere vreugdebedryven, de welke ter dier gelegenheyd zullen geschieden. Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].