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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 3669294, member: 14916&quot;]I am currently researching a book in two volumes in my collection. The title is &quot;Historia episcopatuum foederati belgii, utpote metropolitani Ultrajectini, nec non suffraganeorum Harlemensis, Daventriensis, Leovardiensis, Groningensis, et Middelburgensis&quot; and it it written by Hugo Franciscus van Heussen. The books are printed in 1733 in Antwerp, Belgium.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is a description of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" rel="nofollow">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht</a> and contains a lot of portraits of bishops, maps, and churches of this Archdiocese in the north and west of the Netherlands. The book also contained a book plate (ex libris) of a bishop of Ypres in Belgium, dated 1762 (the year Félix de Wavrans became bishop). Probably he wrote some words in this book that I am trying to translate.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309961[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I can read:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hugues Francois Van Heussen, Pretre Hollandois né a la Haye en 1654, fut Curé à Leiden, eut le titre de Doyen du chapitre d&#039;Utrecht, et il fut choisi par Monseigneur Codde pour provicaire pendant le voyage de celui à Rome. on le cite comme un de plus Zeles provocateurs de la desobeissance envers le Pape dans cette affair. Il composa sur ce sayet: Historia Episc: Foederati Belgii Batavia Sacra, plus un traite&nbsp; de controverse contra les protestants. Picat memoires T IV. p80.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I understand so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hugo Francis van Heussen, Dutch priest, born in the Hague in 1654, died in Leiden with the title Dean of the Utrecht chapter. he went to Paris(?) after a trip to Rome. There he saw a lot of disobedience against the pope. He has written for the cause: This book, Batavia Sacra (another book that he has written) and a writing of the controverse about protestants.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this correct?</p><p><br /></p><p>Title page volume 1</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309962[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Book plate of bishop Felix de Wavrans</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309963[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309964[/ATTACH] Nice large map of the city of Middelburg</p><p>[ATTACH=full]309965[/ATTACH] The province of Zeeland[ATTACH=full]309966[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]309967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Great typical Dutch villages. You can almost sense the wooden shoes and tulips... The windmills are already there.[ATTACH=full]309968[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The former owner of the book: Félix de Wavrans, bishop of Ypres</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309975[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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