Author: TROMP.- DODEUR, T.- Lijkdicht.- 1653.-
Title: Laure-Crans, / Geoffert aent afgestreden Lijck van den Eedelen Manhaften Heldt / Marten Harpertszen Tromp, / Ridder. / Luytenant Admirael van Holland, & c. / Ridderlijck vechtende, door een Musquet Koogel gesneuvelt, in de groote Zee-slach voor Schevelingen, / op den 10 Augusti 1653./
Description: Amsteldam, By Lodewijck Spilleboudt, Boeck-verkooper op den Dam in de Amsteldamsche Bibliotheek, 1653. Plano sheet. Meas. appr. 32x 41cm. Evidence of multiple folds. A small tear to left center, just above woodcut initial. Numeral '153' in ink top righthand corner. Lefthand blank margin a little creased, dogeared. Upper margin a bit short, but no loss. Numerous funeral orations, eulogies and funeral poems were published after the death of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp in the battle at 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 heroic deeds, we find D. Questiers, ISVC [J. Six van Chandelier], P. Dubbels, Daniel Jonktys, T. Dodeur, J. Terinck, Vondel, etc. Many of these plano sheets are recorded in ONLY 1 copy [mostly University of Leiden or Wolffenbüttel] in worldcat. and KVK. Theodore Dodeur is a forgotten poet, friend / aquaintance of Six van Chandelier [also responsible for a plano sheet poem on Tromp]. It is possible that Dodeur was a trader in silk on the Levant.

Keywords: funerary occasional poetry