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Bruxelles / Customary Law] Costuymen ende Rechten der Stadt Brussel (...) Hooft-bancke van Uccle – Bruxelles, Jan Mommaert, 1657 – Contemporary gilt-tooled parchment binding in folio Rare and important legal folio collection gathering the entire customary laws, statutes, ordinances and rights of the city of Brussels, of the Feudal Court of Brabant and of the High Court of Uccle. Full title: Costuymen ende Rechten der Stadt Brussel, Beneffens het Statuyt van d'Over-Momboiren; van Scheydinghe; op de Prescriptie; van de Ghesworen Loters, ende Meerers; d'Ordonnantie op de Procedure, ende Borghe-meesters Rolle; Grootte van de Wegen, ende aller-leye Maten ende Spyckers, naer Stadts Recht. Midts-gaders De Costuymen ende Usantien van syne Majts Souvereyn Leen-Hof in Brabandt, ende van syne Hooft-bancke van Uccle. Editor / Printer: Jan Mommaert (in his printing house), in Brussels (Tot Brussel). Year of edition: 1657 (M. DC. LVII). Author / Scientific editor: Enriched edition with new marginal notes and general and particular tables by J. De Condé, secretary of the city of Brussels. Format & Dimensions: Large folio format (31.7 × 21.3 cm). Language: Early Dutch / Flemish (Nederlands / Vlaams). Iconography: Large title with a grand engraving depicting the arms of the city of Brussels (Saint Michael subduing the demon supported by two lions), vignettes, drop caps and initials carved in wood. Binding: Full flexible contemporaneous parchment binding with boards. Binding notes: Original full flexible parchment binding in good condition with its boards. Signs of wear, patina and stains from the period on the parchment, small material loss at one corner of a cover, spine with raised bands well structured. Interior: Interior well preserved. Paper from the period slightly yellowed with rare epidermises or small sporadic marginal stains. Contemporary handwritten marginal notes on some leaves. Structure: Complete copy with its engraved title page and its tables. Edges dyed green originally (still visible).

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