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Netherlands - Louvain/Tienen] - GELDENHOUWER, Gerardus - Historia Batavica, cum appendice de vetustissima nobilitate, regibus, ac gestis Germanorum. Strasburg, Chr. Egenolff, January 1530, 4to, mod. half vellum, [26-[1] ff. Good copy.
1st ed., 1st issue (with “in calce addita” in title) of an early humanist history of Holland in Roman and early medieval times, written by the reformed scholar G. Geldenhouwer (Nijmegen 1482 - Marburg 1542). He was active at Louvain, partly as a corrector for Dirk Martens . There he became a friend of Fr. Cranevelt and of Erasmus. Later he tried to connect Erasmus with the Reformation, but failed to do so. In 1517 the Emperor Maximilian named Geldenhouwer “poeta laureatus” after Noviomagus had presented him a poem during a visit to Tienen . The work includes long extracts from Tacitus as well as a Latin trsl. of part of Bk II of Jean Lemaire des Belges. Woodcut ill. on title. Ref. VD-16 G-1013. Ritter 991 = Benzing (Egenolf) 21. Flood (Poets Laureate) G-15. Not in Adams.