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JAN THEUNISZ ALIAS JOANNES ANTONIDES (1569-1637) BOEKVERKOOPER EN WAARD IN HET MUZIEKHUIS „D’OS IN DE BRUYLOFT” TE AMSTERDAM, met een bibliografie zijner uitgaven en geschriften, DOOR Mr. H. F. WIJNMAN. De Engelschman William Brereton (1604 —1661), die In 1634 ons land bereisde, verhaalt als volgt zijn bezoek op 11 Juni van dat jaar aan eender merkwaardigheden van Amsterdam E „Thuesday 11 Junii we went into the house of Yantunus, who „hath been professor m Leyden of the Arabic language a lusty old man, whose „beard reacheth his girdle. In this house he hath erected a most curious water-work „at an infinite charge; no room without some rare invention for pleasure and delight; „none for lodging almost, hut also contrived and furnished with several inventions, „and those all various to affect the outward sense, and draw on ghuests to apply „there. He is an Anabaptist, but a man of most strange invention. This most rare „invention, this waterwerk, is erected in the top of the house, which is six stories „high, where having heard all sorts of music upon strings, upon wind-instruments, „and upon an instrument which did in a pleasant tune and harmony make the bells „to sound, playing thereon as you do upon virginalls. Here we had three great „glasses of their muddy stuff, for which we paid (and fora dish of almonds „and raisins) six Dutch shillings. After this we were taken into a loft or gallery in „the same room: over against us stood upon a convenient place, for that end pre - „pared, the proportion of a woman milking a cow, who seemed to move with her „hand, and milking until the vessel, whereinto the water distilled or was milked, „ran over. Here was another woman’s proportion, as it were carrying away a vessel „upon her head, which being filled with water, did also overflow. Afterwards here I William Brereton, Travels in Holland, the United Provmces, England, Scotland and Ireland MDCXXXIV —MDCXXXV; ed. by Edw. Hawkms (1844), blz. 56/57.