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Two most famous mediaeval Chronicles (the 'Beka and Heda') in the second issue of the editio princeps, resp. the editio princeps

BEKA, Johannes de & Willem HEDA.
Historia veterum episcoporum Ultraiectinæ sedis, & comitum Hollandiæ, explicata Chronico Iohannis de Beca Canonici Ultrajectini ab anno nativitatis Christi usque ad annum 1345. Et Historia Guilhelmi Hedæ Praepositi Arnhemensis auctoris nunquam editi, completa Appendice usque ad annum Christi 1574.  auctore Suffrido Petri ...: Bernardo Furmerio ... recensente, & notis illustrante.

Woodcut printer's mark on title of both parts.

Woodcut printer's mark on title of both parts.



Franeker, Rombert Doyema, 1612. Two parts in one volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine. Woodcut printer's mark on title of both parts. (8), 189, (3); (4), 193-426 pp.

Fine combined edition of these most famous medieval chronicles of the Northern Netherlands in general and on the bishops of Utrecht in particular by (1) Johannes de Beka (14th century) and (2) Wilhelmus Heda (ca. 1460-1525), normally referred to as the 'Heda and Beka', and edited by the Frisian humanist Bernardus Furmerius (1542-1616) of Leeuwarden, successor of Suffridus Petrus (1527-1597) as historiographer of the States of Friesland, who contributed an Appendix to the Beka text. The first edition of Beka's chronicle of the first 50 bishops of Utrecht (from Willibrordus to Florentius of Wevelickhoven) up to the year 1393 was also published by Doyema, in 1611. Our copy contains the second issue of this editio princeps.
The second part by Wilhelmus Heda has its own title-page (Historia episcoporum Trajectensium, auctore Wilghelmo Heda Alfino, Praeposito Arnhemensi, levita & canonico Ultrajectino) and is here published for the first time. Heda's work is written in the form of a Catalogus Episcoporum Traiectensum, listing 57 bishops from Willebrordus to  the death of Philip of Burgundy and - as a supplement after the conclusion of the Historia in 1521 - the appointment of Henry of Bavaria in 1524, including the 50 bishops also discussed by Beka. Thirty years later this edition was followed by a corrected and enlarged edition of the chronicles of Beka and Heda by Arnoldus Buchelius, who 'tidied' the Latin to suit it to seventeenth-century taste, made ready for print after the death of Buchelius in 1641 by Gisbert Lap van Waveren (Utrecht, 1643). Heda, who evidently had planned en edition of his text in ca. 1522 (see: Van der Horst), can be characterized as a humanistically orientated scholar and, as a contemporary of Erasmus, he undoubtedly belonged to the circle which introduced humanism and the Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands.

The chronicle by Beka (14th century; pp. 1-109), covering the early history of the Netherlands till 1393, is preceded by the title and preface by Furmerius, dated Leeuwarden, 21 June 1611, and followed by the Appendix by Suffridus Petri, running till the 61st bishop Frederik Schenck à Tautenburch, 1573 (pp. 110-89) and a note to the reader by Bernardus Furmerius (pp. 189-(91)). The chronicle by Heda (pp. 193-426) is preceded by the separate title (verso blank) and the dedication to thye States of Utrecht by Furmerius, dated Leeuwarden, 20 July 1612.

Good copy.
Simoni B75; De Wind p. 113-15 ("Beka wordt gehouden voor den besten der Latijnsche kroniekschrijvers zijner eeuw"); Knuttel, Kerkgescihedenis, p. 24, note; K. van der Horst, 'Willem Heda and the ed. of his Historia ...', in: Quaerendo, 33 (2003), pp. 267-84.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Franeker  History  Utrecht 

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