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Very important sources for the medieval history of the Netherlands

BEKA, Johannes de & Wilhelmus HEDA.
De episcopis Ultraiectinis, recogniti et notis historicis, recogniti et notis historicis illustrati ab Arn. Buchelio Batavo I.C. Accedunt Lamb. Hortensii Montfortii Secessionum Ultraiectinarum libri, et Siffridi Petri Frisii Appendix ad historiam Ultrajectinam.

With engraved allegorical title with a nice view of Utrecht in a cartouche, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and facsimile of coins.

Utrecht, Jan Everdsen van Doorn (& partly printed by Aeg. Roman), 1642-43. 3 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine blind-tooled and lettered in ink, blind-tooled fillet borders on covers. With engraved allegorical title with a nice view of Utrecht in a cartouche, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and facsimile of coins. (20), 191, (14); (4), 331, (33), 12; (8), 180, (32) pp.

First edition by the famous Utrecht polyhistor Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641) of these most famous medieval chronicles of the Northern Netherlands, noramally referred to as the 'Heda and Beka'. These chronicles were both first published in 1612 in Franeker but in a bad edition by Suffridus Petri (1527-1597). Buchelius had worked on his new edition of the chronicles for many years and his manuscript wasn't finished when he died in 1641. The text was prepared for the press by his friend L. van Waveren. The edition is adorned with laudatory poems by a.o. Prof. Ant. Aemilius, the famous Dutch poetess Anna Maria van Schuurman, Adolf Vorstius, Caspar Barlaeus and Nic. Hamel.The chronicle by Beka (14th century) (pp. 1-121), covering the early history of the Netherlands till 1393, together with its appendices running till 1456 (pp. 122-33) is followed by a preface by Bernardus Furmerius, the printer of the first edition (Franeker 1612) of the chronicle (pp. 134-5), and appendices by Suffridus Petri, the editior of the 1612-text (pp. 136-91).The chronicle by Heda (d. 1525) (pp. 1-331), treating the history of the Utrecht bishops, is preceded by a Vita of the author by L. van Waveren. The chronisle was printed by Johannes van Doorn in 1642. After the index follows the Continuatio by Suffredus Petri (pp. 1-10).The chronicle by Lambertus Hortensius (1501-1574) (pp. 1-180), covering the history of Utrecht from 1524 till 1528: the episcopate of Henry of Bavaria, was first printed in Basle in 1546. Here the chronisle is included as the third part with a separate title page and printed by Aeg. Roman for Jan van Doorn. The text is followed by a Vita of Hortensius and the text of the confirmation of the Pope Clemens VII of the submission of the worldly powers over the province of Utrecht to the Emperor Charles V.

Good copy with 17th-century ownership's entry on the verso of the first flyleaf by Daniel Clasen, dated 1.5.1666.- (Library stamps on first flyleaf and title).

Bibl. Hist. Neerl. II, 106; Bodel Nijenhuis 2286; De Buck 1723; NNBW X, cols. 39-40.

Related Subjects: History Netherlands Utrecht

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