Erycius Puteanus’ Elogia project, Balduinus Horickius and Chicago, Newberry Library, Wing MS ZW 6465 .H782

Abstract

This article proposes a study of Chicago, Newberry Library, Wing ms ZW 6465 .H782 and analyses its significance for Erycius Puteanus’ Elogia project to which the author refers often in his rich correspondence, especially in his letters to Guilliam Blitterswyck. The study also links the ms. to two of Puteanus’ minor publications in print, the Podium Philippicum and the Orchestra Burgundica. Lastly, it discusses the lineographic drawings on the background of the calli-graphic tradition in the first half of the seventeenth century and more specifically at the court of the governors of the Southern Low Countries.