Justitie van Carel den Stouten, Hert[og]: van Bourg[ondië]: etc. Grave van Holl[and]: Zel[and]: etc. over seker gouv[erneur]: in Zelant.[Amsterdam?], Joachim Bormeester, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside (41 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 31 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene (in roman capitals with I and V for UJ and U), 5 lines of verse (a couplet in 1 line followed by a 4-line verse) below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Hand-coloured and highlighted in gold.

A very rare print presenting an episode in the life of Charles the Bold (le Téméraire; Carel de Stoute; 1433-1477), the fourth Duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois, who also ruled large parts of the Northern Netherlands and Zeeland. The smaller scenes, three on each side, illustrate the various events in the story. The caption under each small scene first gives a couplet in one line (in roman style lettering) that offers wise moral advice related to the scene. It is followed by four lines of verse (in italic) applying it more specifically to the event in the story. Six columns of italic text in the foot of the plate tell the whole story in prose. The stories used for the two similar prints appeared in Cornelius Aurelius, Die chronyk van Hollandt (Leiden, 1517), known as the “Divisiekroniek”, so this one may also come from that source, but we have not found it.The plate appears to be somewhat worn, so probably a late impression of an older plate. Trimmed to the platemark. Browned. Manuscript annotations in ink at the lower right corner.l Cf. British Museum 1874,1010.70 (pub. by Danckerts); Muller, Historieplaten 314 (pub. by Sweerts); H. van de Waal, Drie eeuwen vaderlandsche geschied-uitbeelding 115.2 (pub. by Danckerts?); not in Atlas van Stolk (but 117 is a similar Sillemans/Danckerts print of a different historical scene).