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The first Dutch protestant martyrologium

MELLINUS, Abraham.
Eerste Deel van het Groot Recht-ghevoelende Christen Martelaers-Boeck: ghenoechsaem vervattende Een Kerckelijcke  Historie van den Opgangh, Voortgangh, en Ondergangh der Vervolgingen: Ende tusschen beyden De Exempelen der vromer Martelaren, als oock eeniger voorneemster Confessoren, en Reformateuren: Uit welcker belijdenissen, teghens die van het Pausdom, blijckt, de personele successie onser Gereformeerde Christelijcke Religie: Ende daer naer, De Rechtveerdige oordelen  Gods over de Tyrannen die Gods Kercke vervolght hebben: Ende ten laetsten, Hoe verde de Staet der Kercke Christi, in Leere, Ceremonien, en Leven, vande geboorte onses Salighmakers af, van Eeuwe tot Eeuwe, tot het Jaer 1520. toe, vervallen is. Alles uyt de H. Out-Vaders en getrouwe Kerckelijcke Historie schrijvers by een vergadert, ende in orde gestelt.

Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type.

Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type.

Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type.

Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type.

Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type.



Dordrecht & Amsterdam, Isaack Jansz. Canin & Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1619. Folio. Original calf; spine ribbed and richly gilt, with title lettered in gold; gilt fillets on both sides with large gilt arabesque corner pieces and centre-piece. Title printed within rich architectural border; with and 106 atrocious woodcut illustrations of martyr's tortures and executions in the text, several repeated. Text alternately printed in roman and gothic type. (14), 632, (46) lvs.

First and only edition of the first official Dutch Reformed Protestant martyrologium, composed by Abraham Mellinus, (ca. 1580-1622). Born at Vlissingen, Mellinus studied at Leyden and became Minister at St. Anthonispolder and Cellartshoek. The present first volume of his "History of Christian Martyrs" runs to 1520. It was dedicated by the author to Prince Maurits of Orange and to the Synode of Dordrecht, who both rewarded the author with a good sum of money. The work showed great learning and was at the time much praised. The author planned to write a second volume but he died before this was really started. In 1622 Balthasar Lydius, Minister at Dordrecht, then was ordered to write the second volume but he also died, so a second volume never appeared. Mellinus' Martyrologium especially enraged the Roman Catholics. In 1656 A. van Geluwen, for instance, tried to prove in his Ontledinghe van dry verscheyden  Nieuw-ghereformeerde Martelaers Boecken, ofte reden-kamp-strydt tusschen de Lutheraenen, Calvinisten, ende Weder-doopers, that the martyrs of the first thousand years of the Christian era were all Roman Catholics, not refrormed protestants as Mellinus has claimed. His work was almost exclusively a refutation of Mellinus's work.

Good large-paper copy in an interesting though somewhat worn contemporary gilt binding, with the bookplate of Paul Hildebrandt and the ownership's stamp of Ds H.C. Hopkins, Wynberg.- (Binding rubbed and  slightly damaged at the top and bottom of the spine and corners; slightly thumbed at the beginning; rests of ties; tear in one leaf).
Bibl. Belg., M. 317; Knuttel, Ned. Bibliogr. Kerkgesch., p. 215; De la Rue, p. 225; De Wind, p. 502; NNBW, VII, col. 858.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  History  Protestantism 

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