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S.l. (Berlin-Steglitz), s.d. (ca. 1925 ?), format in-4° (32 x 22,5 cm, ), manuscript with 12 leaves of thick paper written on the recto side only., bound (most probably by the author) in cream coloured boards. Front cover with title in calligraphy, Title embellished with tipped-on small coloured glass pearls and floral decoration. (Boards uniformly slightly dustsoiled). With the blind-stamped circular embossed ex-libris of Georges Verbruggen-Le Roy. The author and scribe of this manuscript was the German journalist and artist-writer Otto Droescher, born in Rathenov in 1863 who lived mostly in Berlin-Steglitz where he died in 1930. He used the pseudonym Frank May.Manuscripts in his hand, similar to ours are known (e.g. Alt-Japan, 10 leaves, dated 1925, illustrated by him with 10 plates on silk). Our manuscript deals with a little known episode in the 80-years war in the Netherlands. It relates the so-called treason of Lodron (or Ladron) which took place in Antwerp and its suburb Borgerhout in the year 1570. This Lodron was a Tiroler mercenary chief who betrayed his man . It led to the execution of 18 of his troops by the Spanish in Antwerp on 4th August 1570. (after skirmishes in Borgerhout which aledgedly took 60 lives). Manuscript. 12 leaves written in a very neat hand. The leaves all have a coloured frame which is decorated with small flower like designs, heithened with silver. . The title page has a more elaborated frame with e.g. faces of the soldiers. The text opens with a large decorated initial. Well preserved and nicely illustrated manuscript which has probably never been published.…