Shortly before the attack on the Bastille, the composer from Liège published his memoirs in Paris and in his hometown. He openly sympathized with the revolution, although he was employed at the king's court in Paris. The book contains music excerpts and texts of his compositions. In the facade of the Louvre a statue reminds of him. In the première part of his Essai, he immediately enters with the sentence "[he] not only owes his moral but also his physical existence to music". Wallraf described the volume with "Wallraf Prof. á Cologne" as his property.

Learn more about the author via his musical work on YouTube!

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Antverpiae: Plantin 1571
Attached works: Additae praeterea sunt ad fi nem Pii IV. Bullae. Una cum triplici ... indice.

Shelfmark: WFVIII41

This anthology is from the group "Concilia", in which some texts were bound together. The seven different prints are from the years 1549, 1570 and 1571. Six scripts were printed in the office of the famous printer Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) in Antwerp. Plantin received the privilege of printing liturgical books from Philip II, King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Netherlands. However, it did not prevent the businessman working for the Protestant General States of the Netherlands.

The manuscripts contained herein are all under the sign of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), to which "Canones et decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici (...)" are attached in the 1571 edition. Thus the Tridentinum stands for far-reaching church reforms which were passed in the course of the Counter-Reformation. An edition of the Index of Prohibited Books (Index librorum prohibitorum) from 1570, which can be found in the anthology, belongs to this context.

The previous owner of the book had these prints carefully bound into a volume. The double-headed eagle of the House of Habsburg also decorates the binding.

The handwritten entries of possession refer to the Imperial Abbey of Malmedy (Stablo-Malmedy).

Cover

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• back covered with new leather
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Romae: in typogr. Medicea 1591

Shelfmark: WFI121

Printed in 1591 in Rome, this special book 'The Gospel of Jesus Christ' is written in Latin and Arabian. Every arabic line is followed by the latin version. In order to produce arabic texts, the 'Typographia Medicae' was founded in 1584 by Ferdinando I. de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuskany, at the request of the pope.

The artwork is presented in 149 woodcarvings, while every page is imbedded in a doubled frame with illustrations. All arabic prints were made by the french punchcutter Robert Granjon.

Wallraf's volume is covered in parchment with a bicoloured handwriting. Due to the name above the text, the fragment of a liturgic music manuscript is clearly visible.

Cover

• cleaning with soft particle blasting
• re-shaping and strengthening of deformed cover
• loosening, treatening and reattaching of endpaper

Text block

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• straightening of torn paper
• fixing of gutters
• erasing of old restoration

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