‎Church Wardens Saint James Church Antwerp ( editors - publishers ) - Kerkmeesters van de Sint-Jakobskerk te Antwerpen - [ ] LIEDEKENS :‎
‎Diversche Refereynen ende Liedekens seer playsant om lesen. Duysent Ghuldens / Silveren Coppen en Schalen / met my te coopen moecht ghy winnen. U gelt comt inde Loterye sonder falen. Goede stichtinghe vindy hier binnen.‎

‎" S.l. ( Antwerpen ) , no printer ( Gilles van den Rade ) , 1574, in-8°, 88 unnumbered pp, bound in full leather with blindtooling on both covers, raised spine, leather with some use, interior fine. With a ( contemporary ?) manuscript ex-libris of an Antwerp monastery. The title page contains a manuscript number within a typographical border. The publication served as a lottery ticket. The title page has also in the lower margin a diamond shaped blindstamp. Nice copy of a very rare publication with texts of the chambers of rethoric of the Southern Netherlands published by the church wardens to finance the finishing of their new church in ''Late Gothic Style''. F. Kossmann gives a detailed description of the few remaining copies of this lottery ticket in the form of a book (De Guld. Passer, 1924, pp. 1-18 - periodical published by the ''Antwerpsche Bibliophilen''). He describes 9 copies in Dutch collections. The USTC (2017) describes 7 copies. Our copy belongs to the ''Group I''. This group has no printer's name and no quire signatures. Most known copies have each a different composition. The rethorical texts ( songs ) are answers to 9 propositions made by the wardens. We give here the texts of our copy as listed by Kossmann. I (1,5,4,). II (2,1,) III (3,4,1,2,5,6,7,8,). IV (7,8,9,10,11,12,). V (1,2,). VI (2,1,). VII (4,5,). VIII (4,5,). Our copy contains thus 4 songs with printed score. It is complete with the title, the dedication , the table with the propositions, the full page woodcut of the arms of Philip II , and Salomons Gebed, bound in at the end. This makes it the only complete copy of group I ( compared with items LR , Sch , H , A , W , which all lack one or another item) (;sixteenth century printed music;songs;poetry;dutch;literature;lottery;)."‎

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