Den alderheijlichsten naem voor een nieu-jaer-gift geschoncken aen de ionckheyt, gehoude, weduwen, geestelyke
A Dutch-language Catholic emblem book on the Holy Name of Jesus, written by the Flemish Jesuit Adriaen Poirters as a New Year's gift for youths, married couples, widows and religious, and printed in Antwerp in 1647 by the widow and heirs of Jan Cnobbaert. The small horizontal copperplates by Frederik Bouttats after Jan Thomas set figures in mid-century Flemish dress against harbours, walled towns and wooded slopes, with lettered banderoles curling through the air, shepherds, horsemen, a lute player at a tavern door, skulls and snakes underfoot, and a man floating above a cliff.










