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TL;DR: The Knights of Jubilation was the first Continental Lodge, founded by John Toland in the United Provinces in about 1710 as mentioned in this paper, which is a quarter of a century older than historians have hitherto supposed (viz. 1710 instead of 1734).
Abstract: Between 1970 and 1981 Mrs. Jacob published a variety of books and articles on the subject of the Knights of Jubilation and their clandestine influence on both political and cultural life in the early decades of the eighteenth century. Mrs. Jacob sees the Knights of Jubilation as the first Continental Lodge, founded by John Toland in the United Provinces in about 1710. According to this thesis, Freemasonry on the Continent would be a quarter of a century older than historians have hitherto supposed (viz. 1710 instead of 1734). However, if one reads the texts on which Mrs. Jacob bases this assertion carefully and in their cultural context - they are published here complete and in the original language so that everyone may do just that-it seems to me that her conclusions are somewhat premature. The resonance of these texts goes back to the French libertinage and the burlesque tradition of Rabelais, rather than that they herald the era of Continental Freemasonry.
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TL;DR: The only known copy of CA 1117, an illustrated edition of the Devote ghetiden, was acquired by the Amsterdam University Library in 1964 as discussed by the authors, where they used it for a survey of woodcuts in Low Countries incunabula.
Abstract: In 1964 Amsterdam University Library acquired the only known copy of CA 1117, an illustrated edition of the Devote ghetiden. In 1868, while compiling his Annales de la typographie nierlandaise au xve siecle (1874-90) Campbell examined this little book, which was then still in the possession of the antiquarian bookseller Olivier of Brussels. On grounds of the type and the woodcuts Campbell supposed the book, which lacks various leaves including the final one with (probably) the imprint, to have been printed in about 1496 by Peter van Os van Breda at Zwolle, and this is what the entry in the Annales says. After 1868 the Olivier copy disappeared, though it subsequently proved to have gone to the inaccessible Arenberg collection, itself since auctioned and dispersed. Once it had been rediscovered it became possible to verify and extend Campbell's data on it. The article discusses first the woodcuts and then the type material, on the basis of which Campbell decided that Peter van Os van Breda was the printer. Because the book, which contains 81 woodcuts from the same series, 67 of them different, was for so long impossible to find, it is not included in the surveys of woodcuts in Low Countries incunabula. Conway (1884) and Schretlen (1925) do, however, discuss two other editions containing woodcuts from the same series, namely the Epistelen ende evangelien, Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert, 8 April 1486 (CA 695) and Ludolphus de Saxonia, Boec vanden leven ons heren Jesu Cristi, Zwolle, Peter van Os van Breda, 15 March 1499 (CA 1185(I)) and on the basis of these they arrive at the reconstruction of a series of 49 woodcuts made by the Haarlem Woodcutter (Co 11.9). On the basis of the similarity between these woodcuts and the corresponding ones in the well-known Leeu serie of 68 for a lost edition of the Devote ghetiden (Co 9.2), Conway supposed that the Haarlem series was originally more extensive and that the two series may have been the same as regards numbers and subjects.
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