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Extremely rare edition of a minister-poet from the Eastern part of The Netherlands
SLUITER, Willem.Buyten eensaem huys- somer- en winter-leven.   No pl. (Deventer, Jan Colomb), for the author, 1668. Oblong 16mo (71 x 95 mm). Contemporary vellum over thick boards. (32), 96 pp. With: SLUITER, Willem.huis- en winter-leven. Quanto secretius, tanto liberius.pr. (Delft, Jacobus van der Beeck), for the author, 1668. Oblong 16mo. (14), 112, (2) pp. The only copies recorded of these issues-under-a-new-title of the first editions of two religious and edifying poems, belonging together, by the minister-poet Willem Sluiter (1627-1673). Sluiter studied theology at the 'Illustre School' at Deventer and at the University of Utrecht at the time of Voetius. In 1653 he was ordained as a minister at Eibergen in the eastern part of the Dutch province Overijssel, where he very much enjoyed the simple and quiet provincial life mirrored in these pietistic poems in praise of a retired and undisturbed country life. More than his colleagues-poets Revius and Vollenhove he belongs to the so-called 'Neder-Saksische' (Lower-Saxon) literature. Completely in the tradition of the Modern Devotion - originating in the same area - Sluiter favoured, exactly as Thomas a Kempis did in his Imitatio Christi, a personal relation with God, avoiding all worldly things. Buiten-leven is Sluiter's most literary and poetic work. It shows a delight in the play of words and sounds, which was in vogue in his days. Eensaem huis- en winter-leven, published shortly after Buiten-leven, is much simpler. It describes his life as a hermit in the parsonage of Eibergen and it has the form of a self-defence. Ad 1: There are only two other copies of this little book known, but with another title: Buiten-leven, aenwijsende, hoe men op een slechte en eensame plaets, buiten op 't lant, vernoegt mag leven ... (Vignette) Gedruckt voor den autheur, in 't jaer onses Heeren 1668. These copies are in the University Library, Amsterdam (which was edited by Kok who thought that this was the only copy known) and the British Library. As the same vignette can also be found in books printed by Jan Colomb in Deventer - a printer with whom Sluiter was in contact -, it is very probable that this edition was also printed by him. Our copy has - as the only copy known - a different title printed on different paper, being a separate issue-under-a-new-title.text (p. 1-96) is preceded by the dedication to Count Otto of Limborg and Bronkhorst etc. (f. (3-8)), and laudatory poems by Volckert ab Oosterwyck, minister at Delft, A. Bornius, minister at Alkmaar, the famous Dutch poet and minister at Utrecht Jodocus van Lodenstein, Jodocus Willichius, minister at Oosterwijk (in Latin), Magnus Umbgrovius, minister at Borculo, and E. Beckinck, minister at Needem (p. (9-32)). Ad 2: The same copies mentioned above (UL-A'dam and BL) have both another imprint: 'Tot Delf, By Jacobus vander Beek ... 1668'. And again, our copy is the only one known to have another imprint.text (p. 1-112) is preceded by a dedicaton to the wife of Count Otto, Countess Amelia Louisa Wilhelmina (p. (3-13)), and a poem to the reader by Sluiter (signed by an anagram; p. 14). At trhe end there is an appropriate Latin quote from a work by Joannes Hoornbeek (Theol. Pract., vol. 2, lib. 9, Cap. 26) with the translation in Dutch on the verso. Very good copy of this extremely rare book.- (Some unsignificant browning; first hinge weak; stamp of first tile erased).
F.C. Kok, Willem Sluiters Buiten-leven. Met inl. en aant. (Zwolle 1958): is an edition of the first work; cf. Heeroma's review in: De Nieuwe Taalgids, 52 (1959), p. 74-80); C. Blokland, Willem Sluiter (Diss. Assen 1965); G.T. Hartong, in: Documentatieblad Nadere Reformatie, 5 (1981), p. 37-44.
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