Historiae Comitum Flandriae liber Prodromus Alter. Frandria Vetus Sive Ethnica Dicta Prima Francia ad Consules et Senatores Perpetuos Terrae Francae in Flandria. Brugis (Bruges, Belgium): Lucam Kerchovium via Breydelia sub Cygno. 1650. 1st Edition. Vol. I Only. 692 p + LXXX Appendices + Index. Full leather binding measuring 12.5 x 8.25", 4to.
Old-hand manuscript leaves: pages 207-208 and pages 213-214.
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Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), pen name Latinized as Olivarius Vredius, was a Neo-Latin poet and historian from the Habsburg Netherlands. Born in Bruges on 28 September 1596, De Wree was educated at Jesuit schools there and at Douai. After trying his vocation in the Jesuit novitiate, he studied at the University of Douai, graduating Licentiate of Laws. He went on to become a member of the city council of Bruges, serving as alderman, treasurer and mayor. At the expiry of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 he was instrumental in putting the city into a state of preparedness to prevent Dutch incursions into the County of Flanders.
He induced the printer Jan Baptist van den Kerchove to relocate from Ghent to Bruges. Kerchove, whose father Jan had printed De Wree's early poems, was granted the freedom of the city and registered with the guild of booksellers in 1639.
Jan Baptist van den Kerchove was the pupil of Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove (c. 1620/25 – 1703/04).
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