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aequa mis " (eight lines)
In margin left: "12."
I.
As described. Used in 1604- and 1608-editions.
n.
Erased in margin left: "12". Used in Foppens 1739.
Appendix 2E
Used In: ----
Iliustrium Galliae ..... (1604),no. 12;ïlîustrium Galliae
(1608), no. 12; Foppens 1739, vol. II, p. 853 46a
Maranus Donck (xViartmus Dune anus), Kempen 1505 -
Amersfoort 1590; Dutch priest, vigorous opponent of the
anabapdsts and the protestant reformers. Engraved in the
Galle workshop, verses by Aubert Le Mire.
46
BOUSÄ, JANUS (1572)
15.7 x 12.0 cm,
In lower margin, in letterpress: "IOHANNES DOUSA
DOMINUS/ A NORTHWIC./ Nobilis et genere est et
carmine Dousa iocoso,/ Moribus integris nobilis ille
etiam est./ DIspeream mihi ni semper placuitque
placebitque/ Ingenij purl doctaque nobtfitas " (six lines)
In margin right, also in letterpress:"Bö".
In.
As described. Used in 1572a-edition.
Ib.
Verses in letterpress m lower margin replaced by engraved,
slightly different inscription: "IOHANNES DOUSA
DOMINUS A NORTHWIC [one line}/ ..... Ingenium
purum, doctaq[ue] [instead of Ingenij puri doctaque] "
(five lines); added In margin right, also engraved: "B6".
Used in 1572b-edition.
Used in:
Virorum ..... (1572), no. B6
lit.:
Sellink 1991-92, pp. 154-155
253
JanusDousa (Johan van derDocs),Noordwijk 1545 - The
Hague 1604; Dutch poet and historiographer, leading
calvinist statesman, friend of Philips GaUe in Haarlem.
Most of his publications before 1585 were published by
Plantin (Voet 1980-83, nos, 1107-1114). Engraved by-
Philips Galle, verses by Benito Arias Montane, This por­
trait is clearly related to the other two portraits of Dousa
engraved by Philips Galle (see below).
DOUSA, JANUS (1568)
10.7 x 8.3 cm.
In lower margin, in letterpress: "Qui Batavum gentis
Comités, qui sculpere Erasmum/ Ausus et effigiem Iuni
animosc tuam,/ lUe Idem docile Gallus me expressit in
acre/ Foelicem hoc uno nomine Douziadem/ Nec me
luminibus tantis compono, secundum/ O solum liceat
esse, Seeunde, tibl/ Verum olim; nunc sat, illud si dicere
possim/ Inter Nortuices ingeniosus eram." (eight lines).
Around portrait, engraved In oval border: "DULCES
ANTE OMNIA MUSAE IANUS DOUZA A
NOORTWYCK arm. aetatis 23".
Paris (Cabinet des estampes, BibHothèque Nationale,
Pans)
lit.:
Ampzmg 1628, pp. 359-360; Schrevelius 1648. p. 376;
Puraye 1969, p. 64, fig. 82; Heesakkers 1976, frontispiece,
pp.65-67;Veldman 1977,p. 107; Sellink 1991»92,pp. 154-
155
Engraved by Phlips Galle, verses by Janus Dousa.
Separately published portrait, not included in any of the
portrait series.Besides the impression in Paris, there Is also
an impression with the same text included in the album
amicomm of Abraham Ortels (cp. Puraye 1969, loc. cit.)
There the portrait is added to Dousa s personal entry in
this album, die text in letterpress under the portrait also
has two changes m Dousa s own handwriting: "ammose"
in line two reads "Hadriane 3
' and "uno"' in line four is
changed into "etiam".The portrait has been included in
Dousa's Epigrammaium in 1569 (Dousa 1569) without the
text in letterpress in the margin, probably due to reasons
of space, see: Heesakkers 1976. The same text has been