SCRIVERIUS, Petrus.

Het Oude Goutsche Chronycxken Van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht . Op nieus oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een Byvoeghsel En Toet-steen Vermeerdert. Amsterdam, J.H. Boom, J. Pluymer and C. Commelijn, 1663. 4to. With engraved title and 36 engraved illustrations of Dutch counts. Loosely inserted a full-page engraved portrait of the author by C. de Visscher. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

      - (8), 280 pp. Nijhoff, BHN III, p. 19, no. 227; De Wind, pp. 80-82; 424-428; V.d. Aa VI, pp. 182-185; Wurzbach II, p. 121. Chronicle of 31 successive counts of Holland, ranging from Dirk (Theodorick I), c. 920, till King Philip II of Spain, the last nobleman to hold the title Count of Holland. The chronicle was first published in Gouda in 1478 by Gerard Leeu, and was henceforth always called "Goutsche Chronycxken," and reprinted in Leiden in 1483. The first part, from the middle of the tenth century till 1437, the death of Countess Jacoba of Bavaria, was written by an anonymous author. The continuation till 1477, the death of Charles the Bold, was probably written by Jan van Naaldwijk (see De Wind, pp. 80-82). From 1478 onward, the poet and historian Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) continues the chronicle till the final Count of Holland, King Philip II of Spain. "After the examples of Dousa and Emmius, Scriverius tried to purify ancient history from fables and aberrations. but he sometimes threw out the good with the bad" (De Wind, p. 425). De Toets-steen, added at the end of the chronicle, has been written as a critical commentary to the text to see "which healthy parts can be retained" ("watter noch ghesondts aan is"). The commentary follows the order of pages of the chronicle. Scriverius's additions were published posthumously in 1663. It is not clear when he actually wrote his contribution. The date of the half-title to the By-voegsel is "1630." The Oude Goutsche Chronycxken contains attractive engravings of the counts of Holland made by Adriaan Matham (Wurzbach). A very good copy with attractive engravings.