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The rector of Rembrandt's Latin School at Leiden on education

SCHREVELIUS, Theodorus.
Palaemon, sive diatribae scholasticae, continentes tum quae ad laudam & commendationem scholarum spectant, tum quae ad [Greek: eutaxian] earum, & oeconomiam: quarum ordinem versa indicat pagina. His coronidis loco accessit Corona anni.

With the Elsevier printer's device on the title.

With the Elsevier printer's device on the title.

With the Elsevier printer's device on the title.



Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elsevier, 1626. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum; boards ruled in blind with gilt stamp of the 'Society of writers to the Signet' in the centte; spine lettered in ink. With the Elsevier printer's device on the title. (24), 228 pp.; double-leaf with a scheme of the diatribe bound after the preliminaries.

With:
(2) IDEM, Zodiacus, sive de Corona anni oratio.
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abrahem Elsevier, 1626. 8vo. With the Elsevier printer's device on the title. 47 pp.

(3) RIVET, Andreas. Critici sacri specimen. Hoc est, censurae doctorum tam ex orthodoxis quam ex Pontificiis, in scripta quae patribus plerisque priscorum & puriorum seculorum, vel affinxit incogitantia, vel supposuit impostura.
Dordrecht, Johannes Berewout, 1619. . 8vo(16), 504, (6) pp.

Ad 1: First edition of the ten orations on education and the educational system written by Theodorus Schrevelis (Dirk Schrevel, 1572-1653 (1649?)), rector of the Latin School at Haarlem (1609-1620) and Leiden (ca. 1622-1642), the school where Rembrandt was a pupil. The dedication is dated Leiden, 26 October 1626, followed by a long laudatory poem by the famous Neo-Latin poet Casper Barlaeus and one by J. Dorislaus. After the folded scheme of the Diatribae scholasticae follow the ten orations, including an oaration 'In laudem Scholarum', 'De iis quae tum respiciunt appetitum, tum rationem', 'De officio discipulorum', and 'De praemiis literariis seu scholasticis' (on the school prizes). A second edition followed in 1643.

Ad 2: Added to (1), but with its own title-page and quire- and page numbering, is an eleventh oration, Zodiacus, sive de Corano anni, on the coming school year 1626. The dedication to Johannes ab Aersen is dated Laiden, 5 October 1626. A laudatoty poem by Caspar Barlaeus (pp. 9-10) is followed by the text of the oration 'Oratio auspicalis de auspiciis novi anni MDCXXVI' (pp. 11-43), and a paraphrase in Latin verses by Schrevelius of Psalm 65 'ex quio Coronae anniversariae argumentum desumptum est' (which psalm he has used for the argument of his yearly oration).

Ad 3: (bound as the first work in our copy) Second edition of the collected criticism and hermeneutic remarks on Patristic and classical texts by the French Huguenot theologian André Rivet (1572-1651). The first edition had appeared in 1612). After completing his education at Berne, Rivet studied theology privately at Berne and La Rochelle, and from 1595 to 1620 was at Thouars, first as chaplain of the duke of La Trémouille and later as pastor. In 1620 he was called to Leyden as professor of theology. A rigid Calvinist and an uncompromising enemy of the Roman Catholic Church, Rivet was in his day the most influential member of the theological faculty of Leyden.
His numerous writings are divided among the provinces of polemics, exegesis, dogmatics, and edification. They were collected in three volumes (Rotterdam, 1651-53). 
In 1632 Stadholder Frederick Henry appointed Rivet tutor of his son, later William II, while the university made him honorary professor. In 1641 he attended the prince on his visit to England, and in 1646 was appointed curator of the educational institution in Breda, where he passed the remainder of his life and died.

Good copies, from the Signet Library, Edinburgh, with a little book plate of the 19th-century London bookseller Ebenezer Palmer. - (Some insignificant waterstaining (in 3); stamp on the back cover damaged).
Ad 1: H, van de Venne, Sol et sal vitae amicitia. Het album amicorum van Theodorus Schrevelius (with bio- and bibliography; 2008); Willems 262; ad 2: Willems 262; ad 3: H.J. Honders, Andreas Rivet als invloedrijk gereformeerd theoloog (1930); A.G. van Opstal, Adreas Rivet, een invloedrijke Hugenoot aan het Hof van Frederik Hendrik (1937).

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Education  Leyden  Theology  Universities 

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