MANTELIUS, J. Historiæ Lossensis ll. decem. Cui adjuncta sunt diplomata Lossensia, privilegia, paces, pacta, donationes, infeudationes, &c. Necnon recollectio edictorum, constitutionum, declarationum, jurium, &c. Cum topographia seu descriptione urbium, pagorum, & locorum ejusdem comitatus. Labore & studio L. Robyns. Liège, A. Barchon, 1717. 3 parts in 1 vol. (8), 306, (12); (2), 48, (2); (2), 172, (4) pp. 4°. Cont. cf. (Extremities dam., bind. chafed, upper inner margin a bit stained in places, a few tiny wormholes in inner margin at the end, but a clean copy).
Important collection of legal and historical documents concerning the Duchy of Loon/Looz (present-day provinces of Limburg and Liège), collected by the Augustine historian Mantelius (1599-1676). A number of the published documents are now lost. In the last part a description of some towns and villages in Limburg ("Borcht-Loon", "Hasseletum", "Wust-Herck", "Belisia", "Maseca", "Brea", "Beringia", "Stockemium", "Pera", "Hamontium").€ 120