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Agaist Geraerdt Brandt's famous 'Arminiaanse' History of the Dutch Reformation

RULAEUS (RUYL), Henricus.
G. Brandts stoute geveynstheyt en liefdeloose geest vertoont in sijn boeck genaemt de Historie der Reformatie.

Oval woodcut printer's device on title.

Oval woodcut printer's device on title.



Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, 1676. 4to. Unbound. Oval woodcut printer's device on title. (10), 127, (3) pp.

First edition of Rulaeus' first attack (G. Brandts Stoute geveynstheyt...(1675)) on the second volume of Gerardt Brandt's famous Historie der Reformatie (1674), here published together with the first edition of his second attack (G. Brandts Liefedeloose geest ... (1676)) with the extra title-page mentioning both attacks.
Geraerdt Brandt (1626-1685) was a Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian. A well-known writer in his own time, his works include, apart from his famous Historie der Reformatie (vol. 1: 1668; vol. 2: 1674), Het Leven en bedryf van den Heere Michiel de Ruiter (1687) - an important source on the admiral's life, and a Historie der vermaerde zee- en koopstadt Enkhuisen (1666) - still an important source for that city's early history). Under the influence of professor Caspar Barlaeus, and his wife, Barlaeus's daughter in particular, Brandt gave up studying watchmaking and in 1652 passed his exam, becoming a Remonstrant preacher in Nieuwkoop. Brandt worked from 1660 to 1667 in Hoorn, before moving to Amsterdam.
In contrast to the Amsterdam Remonstrant minister Brandt, his colleague Henricus Rulaeus (Ruyl; 1611-1680) was a rigid and uncompromising orthodox minister (since 1640 in Amsterdam) who wasn't pleased with especially the second volume of Brandt's authoritative History of the Reformation in the Netherlands, which was, according to Rulaeus, too much in favour of Arminius and his followers.
Brandt in his turn defended himself against both attacks in his Verantwoording, ter sake van sijne Historie der Reformatie, tegens de beschuldigingen van D. Henricus Rulaeus (Amsterdam 1676; Knuttel 11479); Rulaeus reaction soon followed as Verded(ig)inge van de waerheydt sijner beschuldigingen, tegen de Historie der reformatie van Geraerd Brandt (Amsterdam, J. van Someren, 1676; Knuttel 11480).

Content:
- Collective title-page for both works (G. Brandts Stoute geveynstheyt en liefdeloose geest vertoont in sijn boeck genaemt de Historie der Reformatie), verso: "Dese tractaten worden uyt-gegeven, na de ordre der Nederlandsche Kercken ...".
- Original title-page of the first work (Henricus Ruyl, G. Brandts stoute geveynstheyt, in het pdragen of toe-eygenen van sijn Arminiaense Historie, aen alle de predikanten van de publijcke Gereformeerde Kercken ... (Amstwerdam, Johannes van Someren, 1675)), verso blank.
- Dedicatiion to all Dutch ministers by Rulaeus (2 pp.).
- Introduction (4 pp.).
- Text (pp. 1-43 (44 blank)
- (p. 45): Half-title of the second work (Henricus Ruyl, G. Brandts liefdeloose geest, uytgestort in landt- en kerck-beroerende vertellingen, tegen alle Gereformeerde soo wereltlijcke als kerckelijcke persoonen van die tijdt: tot vernietinge van het tweede deel sijner Kerckelijcke Historie der Reformatie ...).
- (pp. 46-7): 'Aaensprake aen alle vrede- en waerheyts-lievende regenten ...'.
- (p. 48): Preface.
- (pp. 49-127): Text of the second attack (p. 128 blank).
- Together with the extra Errata-leaf (often lacking).

Good copy.- (Margins of first lvs. a bit frayed).
Knuttel, Ned. bibliogr. van Kerkgeschiedenis, p. 46 ("rare"); Knuttel, Pamfl. 11358, 11478; Bibliotheca Hulthemiana 16376.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Reformation 

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