Author: TROMP.- JONKTYS, Daniel.- [JONCTYS, JONGTIJS].- Lijkdicht.- 1653.-
Title: Lykzvcht / Over de droeve dood van den onvergelijkelijken Zeeheld, / Martin Herpertz Tromp, / Ridder, Lieutenant Ammiraal: gesneuvelt in 't Jaar 1653. op den 10 van Oogstmaand, in den bloedigen zeeslag / voor de Maze, tusschen de twee machtige vloten van Neder, ende Engeland. /
Description: Rotterdam, By Ioannes Naeranus, op 't Steyger, 1653. Plano. Meas. appr. 31 x 31 cm. Evidence of multiple folds.[3x]. Perhaps once inserted in or part of an 8vo or sm 4to book. A small tear to left center, w. loss of a few letters. Numeral '156' in ink top righthand corner. 2 small vague watersp. / brown spots upper margin. Numerous funeral orations, eulogies and funeral poems were published after the death of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp in the battle of Ter Heijde near Scheveningen, August 10 1653. These original plano sheets belong to the rare Tromp ephemera. Among the poets known to have dedicated a poem to Tromp's life and herioc deeds, we find D. Questiers, ISVC [J. Six van Chandelier], P. Dubbels, T. Dodeur, J. Terinck, Vondel, ... This funeral poem was written by Daniel Jonktys a medical doctor who lived from 1611 to 1654 pupil of Isaac Beeckman and colleague of. Johan van Beverwijck Jonktys wrote a rare booklet on 'Toversiekten' [published 1636 and reprinted in 1646 with an added discourse by Paracelsus]. The booklet, essentially a translation and edited version of a number of studies by the Wittenberg scholar Daniel Sennert, firmly attacks all manners of superstition, witchcraft and magic, including the famous weapon salve. Jonctys was a cartesianist and staunch advocate of William Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood. On Jonctys see NNBW, vol. VI, c. 866 - 867: Van der Aa, vol. IV, J53: Banga vol. I, p. 385: Mart van Lieburg, De Dichter-medicus Daniël Jonctys (1611 - 1654)...' [in: TS v. de gesch. vd Geneeskunde... 2:4 (1979), pp. 137 - 167: Lindeboom, DMB, c. 984 - 985: BMN vol. I, p. 56: Website Dordrecht's Archief a good contribution by Willem Frijhoff [March 2013] specifically on his life and the 'Toover-sieckten' (w. ill. of titlepage. A search in the STCN, Worldcat & Karlrsruher Virtueller Katalog comes back with only one available copy of this rare plano broadside at the Wolffenbüttel Library in Germany. Very rare.

Keywords: funerary occasional poetry