Quintijn Weijtsen

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Raadsheer Hof Holland, door 2e huw ambachtsheer van Brandwijk

zoon van Jacob Weytsen
hertroud Adriana van Persijn
Boeck ('t) der zee-rechten, inhoudende dat hoochste ende oudtste Godtlantsche water-recht/ dat de gemeene cooplieden ende schippers geordineert ende ghemaeckt hebben tot Wisbuy. De zee-rechten gemaeckt by keyser Karel/ als mede die gemaeckt zijn ten tijde van koninck Philippus de derde/ mede inhoudende seeckere ordonnantie op 't stuck van de asseurantien/ bodemerije/ ende toerustinge van schepen [...] En het tractaet van avarijen/ gemaeckt by Quintijn Weytsen [...]
Amsterdam, G. van Goedesbergh 1663.
Bound with: T.VAN GLINS. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de zee-rechten, uyt het placcaet van koninck Philips [...] Amsterdam, J.Pluymer 1665.
Together 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. [VIII],144; 23; [XII],139p. Contemp. vellum. Interleaved copy with extra blanks at end; first work browned. The first part has an extra title dated 1665; the second part (Weytsen's treatise) with own title with imprint 's-Gravenhage, J.Doll 1651.
First work: An early edition of a major source for the genesis of commercial law. It contains the so-called 'Wisbyan compilation', a maritime code pretended to have been agreed at Wisbuy (Gotland), printed in Holland for the first time in 1588. It is followed by a great number of proclamations, ordinances, etc. on maritime affairs issued since 1551. *Kress has similar editions dated 1648, 1698 and 1700. EHB has no edition prior to 1700. Goudsmit p.148.
Second work: First edition of an early treatise on maritime law which remained a standard work on the subject for a long period. Taco van Glins (1619-1673) was professor at the university of Franeker since 1667. *Dekkers p.63,2. Kress has an edition of 1695 (1892). (#24382)

Quintijn trouwde met Jacomijna de Huijbert, dochter van Lieven Jacobs de Huijbert Ambachtsheer van Haamstede en Levina Cornelisse van Zuijdlandt. (Jacomijna de Huijbert werd geboren in 1520.)