Author: OLTHOF, JAN,
Title: Israëls leider Mozés, in Dichtmaate gevólgt, by de Redenkamer der Witte Angieren, Bekend by de Zinspreuk In Liefde Getrouw, Op den eersten Dag van het 1742ste Jaar.
Description: Haarlem, Mozes van Hulkenroy, [1742], 4to., transparent paper cover, unsewn (punch holes from earlier bindings visible), 12 pp., some light foxing, with an engraved printer's mark on the title page (Typographia Huc Primum Inventa A L.Costero MCCCCXXIIX: referring to Laurens Janszoon Coster as the inventor of printing) and a lovely woodcut tailpiece to mark the end of the poem. The "Witte Angieren" was a "rederijkerskamer" (association of rhetoric artists) in Haarlem consisting mainly of immigrants from Vlaanderen (Flanders). The Rederijkerskamer was acknowledged by the city counsil in 1592. Members were: the painter Carel van Mander, Jan Olthof, Jacob van der Schuere and Izaak van der Vinne.

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