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One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus.
Hollandiae Comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis  scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli  Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.- IDEM, Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.


With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.<BR>

With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.<BR>

With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.<BR>

With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.<BR>

With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.<BR>



Frankfurt a/M, Joh. Wechel for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum, title written on spine, rests of ties. With woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on  p. 25) on title, woodcut printer's device of Feyerabent ('Fama') on 2nd title, a variant of his printer's device on verso of last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits, except for the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath, woodcut initials and head- and tail pieces.
(16), 1-224, 227-393 (error in pagin.); 109 pp.

Re-edition of the very enlarged edition of this work by Adrianus Barlandus, which was published a year earlier in Leiden by Christoph Plantin in folio (1584; see: Voet, nr. 625). Plantin's edition in its turn was based on Barlandus's work that was published in Antwerp by Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten in 1520: Libelli tres ... Principum Hollandiae, altero, episcoporum insignis ecclesiae Traiectensis, tertio, res gestae continentur ( Bibl. Belg. B-256).
After the title follow the distichs by Adrianus Cordatus (verso title), the dedication by Barlandus to Jan van Borsele (f. (2)r-(7)r), a note on the original name of Holland: 'Hollandia unde dicta' (f. (7)v-(8)r), and the two woodcut portraits of King Philip II and Franciscus Valesius, dux Alansoniae (f. (8)v).
- p. 1-283: 'De rebus gestis comitum Hollandiae libellus': the description of the lives of the 34 counts of Holland, from Theodorus (Dirk) I to Charles V, all with their woodcut portraits and coat-of-arms.
- p. 284-93: Short descriptions of Holland, Utrecht, Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Zeeland: in fact extracts from Barlandus's Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris.
p. 294-387: the life of Charles the Rash (Karel the Stoute; 1433-77), preceded by the dedication to Adolph of Burgundy, dated Louvain, 13 January 1519, and concluded by the Latin distichs by Barlandus.
p. 388-93: List of the counts of Holland.
The second work, although mentioned on the first title, was also published separately:
- title: Hadranus Barlandus, Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae. Frankfurt a/M, Joh. Wechel for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1585.
- p. 3-55: the lives of the bishops of Utrecht from Willibrord to Frederik IV of Baden (1496-1517).
- p.56-109: 'Historia at catalogus episcoporum Traiectinorum, e Germanico Latinus factus Gerardo Noviomago interprete. The lives of the Utrecht bishops from Willibrord to Henry II of Bavaria (1524-28). Gerard Geldenhouwer Noviomagus (1482-1552) was a well-known humanist and admirer of Erasmus. After many years at Louvain - where he certainly belonged to the circles around the new humanists as Dorpius and Barlandyus - he was appointed professor in Marburg in 1520. He was the author of two works on the history of the Low Countries: Lucubratiuncula de Batavorum insula (1520), and Historia Batavica (1530).

Adriaan van Baarland or Adrianus Cornelii Barlandus (1486-1538) was a Dutch humanist and historian of merit. He was born in the village of Baarland on the island Zuid Beveland (Zeeland), from which he took his name. He studied at Ghent and Leuven, at which latter place he was appointed professor of Latin at the Collegium Trilingue and professor of eloquence at the University (1526). Besides some philological works of no great value and some dialogues in the style of Erasmus (Dialogi XLII ad profligandam e scholis barbariem utilissimi (1524)), Barlandus wrote a number of historical works, especially about the various provinces and counts of the Low Countries: apart from his Libelli tres, conscripti his, qui jucunda, et utili rerum cognitione capiuntur (1520) and the later expanded editions of 1584 (Plantin, Leiden) and 1585 (our copy), he wrote also a book on the rulers of Brabant: the Rerum gestarum a Brabantiae ducibus gestarum historia (1526).
Barlandus became, along with Dorpius, one of the most ardent supporters of Erasmus and the new learning at the famous University of Louvain and he was happy to see his merits recorded in Erasmus's Ciceronianus.

Good copy with stamp of the Lektorat f. deutsche Volkskunde, Heidelberg (with the Nazi-eagle) on first fly-leaf, and contemporary ownership's entries on title: 'Collegi. Pivion. (?) Soc. Jesu catalogo inscriptus', and 'B. Fuemyol U.C.J.'.- (Insignif. browning at places).
VD16, B-375; Adams B-212; Bibl. Belg. B-258;  J.P. Ward, 'Hadrianus Barlandus and a Catalogue of the Counts and Countesses of Holland Published at Amsterdam by Doen Pietersz', in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 55 (2006), pp. 71-110; on Barlandus: Contemp. of Erasmus I, pp. 95-6; Meertens, Letterk. leven in Zeeland (1943), pp. 40-1; NNBW III, cols. 51-5.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages  Utrecht 

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