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The famous Protestant Martyrbook
[HAEMSTEDE, Adriaen Cornelisz. van].Historie der Martelaren, die om het getuygenisse der evangelischer waerheydt haer bloedt gestort hebben, van de tijden Christi onses Salighmakers af tot den jare sesthien hondert vijf-en-vijftigh toe. Niet alleen in dese Nederlanden, maer oock in Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Schotlandt, Spanjen, Italien, Duytschlandt, America en andere landen, met vele van hare brieven en belijdenissen: als mede de moort van Parijs, de moort in Voltoline, d'ongehoorde wreetheyt in Yerlant: mitsgaders de schrickelike moort aen de vaudoysen in Piemont, en andere vervolgingen der geloovigen.     In desen laetsten druck op een nieuw neerstelick oversien, verbetert, en veelsins vermeerdert; en el Amsterdam, Jan Fredericksz. Stam, 1658. Folio. Contemporary blindstamped vellum with title in ink on spine, remnants of ties, blue speckled edges. Full-page engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved plate in text divided in ten compartments, showing in different scenes the pride and haughtiness of the Roman Catholic popes, and 149 engravings in text, mostly depicting the horrifying manner in which the martyrs were put to death. (12), 483, (5) lvs. [Collation: *6 a6 A-6G4]. Rare issue of this highly appreciated Protestant martyrology of great historical value, by Adriaan Cornelisz. van Haemstede. The first edition appeared without a publishers name or place in 1559 (Bibl. Belg., H-170), but judging from the dedication dated Antwerp 1559 it probably also was printed there. Many editions followed (see BB, H-170-196). The present edition is a reprint of the edition Dordrecht, Jacques Braat for Jacques Savrij, 1657 (BB, H-188)with the errata in that edition corrected and with copies of the plates. At least nine other issues appeared in 1658; five in Amsterdam (respectively at G.W. Doornick, A.J. van Blanken, J. van Zomeren, J. vanden Burgh and J.J. Schipper), one in Den Briel at M. Feermans, one in The Hague at C. Dol, one in Nijmegen at A. Hogenhuysen and one in Rotterdam at J. Naeranus. The name of Van Haemstede as the author has not been mentioned as the author in any edition of his popular martyrology since 1566, because of his ties with the Mennonite community, but he has signed the preface which is dated Antwerp, 1559. The register of 5 lvs. at the end of this work lists all martyrs whose lives and deaths are described. The following well-known Anabaptist martyrs are included: Wendelmoet Claes., Anneken uyt den Hove, Sybrand Jansz, Janneken de Jonckheere, and Laurens Schoenmaker. Adriaan Cornelisz. van Haemstede (Zierikzee ca. 1525- Friesland 1562) was born into a noble family of Zeeland. He probably studied Law in Leuven and apparently joined the Reformed Church soon after. From Emden he was sent to Antwerp at the urgent request of the Reformed Church (dated 17 December 1555), and preached there in homes and out-of-doors. From autumn 1557 to February 1559 he spent a second period in Antwerp, full of danger and difficulty. In this period he wrote his chief work, the present martyrbook. The book is of great value, with its carefully collected and highly reliable reports, interrogations, letters and confessions of faith. Because of his stern ideas and the already mentioned ties with the Mennonite community he was excommunicated in 1560 and in 1562 even ostracized. He died in the Dutch province Friesland in 1562. Very good copy.- (Frontispiece loosening; some insign. water staining at top margins of last 8 lvs).
Molhuysen-Blok I, cols. 1013-6; STCN lists only one complete copy of this 1658-issue in the Royal Library in The Hague; cf. V.d. Haar H 38; Bibl. Belg. H 189; Bibelebontse berg p. 151; Knuttel, Ned. Bibl. Kerkgs., p. 123; Sepp, Bibl. Ned. Kerkgs., p. 199; Pacquot II, p. 344; H.T. Oberman, 'De betrouwbaarheid der Martelaarsboeken van Crespin en van Haemstede', in: Nederl. Archief v. Kerkgesch., 4(1905), pp. 74-11'; Fr. Pijper, Martelaarsboeken (1924), pp. 34-72; Chr. Sepp, 'Geschiedenis der Marteiaaren door Adriaan van Haemstede', in: Geschiedkundige Nasporingen (1873), II, pp. 269-378.
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