Ian Vander Veens Zinne-Beelden, Oft Adams Appel. Verciert met seer aerdige Const-Plaeten Mitsgaders Syne oude ende nieuwe ongemeene Bruydt-loss ende Zege-zangen.
t'Amsterdam: By Everhard Cloppenburgh, Boeck vercooper op't Water, 1642.
Physical Description
[24], 523, [1]p.: [50] illus. and t.p. vignette; 220 mm. (Quarto.)
General Note
Page 240 is misnumbered as 140; 310 as 210; 382 as 380; 383 as 381; 406 as 106; 407 as 107; 447 as 475; 451 as 251. Some copies have other misnumberings. In some copies (including that of the Royal Academy) illustration no. XIV, on the verso of signature G3, has been pasted in.
Contents
[Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - [Poems on J. van der Veen's Adams Appel] - [Poem 'Aande Borgherye Der Stadt Deventer'] - [Divisional title, 'Ian Vander Veens Zinne-Beelden, Oft Adams Appel'] - [Text, with illus.] - [Divisional title, 'Ian Vander Veens Over-Zeesche Bruylofs-Zangen'] - [Text] - [Divisional title, 'Ian Vander Veens Over-Zeesche Zege-Zangen'] - [Text].
Responsibility Note
The illustrations are unsigned. The title-page vignette is signed as engraved by S. Savry (that is, Salomon Savery).
The work is dedicated by Jan Vander Veen to the 'Burghermeesteren Schepenen ende Raedt Der Stadt Deventer'.
References
A. Adams, S. Rawles and A. Saunders, A Bibliography Of French Emblem Books (2 v., 1999-2002), vol. II. no. F.585, p.526-8; J. Landwehr, Emblems and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries, 1542-1813 (1988), no. 842; M. Praz, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (2nd. ed., 1964), p.522-3.
Summary Note
The text is in Dutch, but includes some couplets in French.
In the Zinne-Beelden, Oft Adams Appel Jan van der Veen's verses on contemporary Dutch behaviour are illustrated by fifty etchings showing pastoral landscapes and genre.
These are followed by Veen's Over-Zeesche Bruylofs-Zangen, or wedding songs, and Over-Zeesche Zege-Zangen, or victory songs; which are unillustrated.
Copy Note
Page 325 is misnumbered '32'.
Binding Note
17th-century white vellum, unlettered.
Subject
Netherlands - Deventer - Social life and customs - History - 17th century
Emblem books - Songs, Dutch - Poems, Dutch - Netherlands - 17th century
Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Netherlands - 17th century