De scriptoribus Frisiæ, Decades xvj. & semis

Full title: De scriptoribus Frisiæ, Decades xvj. & semis: in quibus non modo peculiares frisiae, sed et totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimæ indicantur, & veterum Historicorum ac Geographorum loci hactenus non intellecti explicantur: Causæq[ue] redduntur dilucidæ, cur veteres Germani præter meritum ruditatis & imperitiæ à quibusdem in re literaria arguantur. Authore Suffrido Petro Leouardiensi, utriusque I. C. Historico Frisiæ, Canonico ad SS. Apostolos.

8vo. pp. [48], 288, [16] (last blank), ff. [11] (blank). Signatures: 3*⁸ 2[dagger]⁸ ⁸ (??)² A-S⁸ T⁶. Vellum. Manuscript spines. Ties apparent, tooled boards, red edges. Head- and tail-pieces, engraved initials. Printed in Italic and Roman characters. Printed annotations. Includes index. Head- and tail-pieces, engraved initials. Printed in Italic and Roman characters. Printed annotations. Includes index. Manuscript ownership inscription of “dr. A. Fannenborg” on title page.

Bound with Petri’s De Frisiorum antiquitate origine: Libri tres: in quibus non modo eius gentis propriæ, sed & communes Germaniæ totius Antiquitates multæ, hactenus incognitæ, produntur; & obscuri veterum scriptorum loci plurimi illustrantur: Auctore Suffrido Petro Leouardiensi Frisio V. I. C. Cologne, In Officina Birckmannica sumptibus Arnoldy Mylii, 1590 (see Bib# 4102806/Fr# 278 in this collection).

The present work by the classiscist Sjoerd Peeters (1527-1597) was not mentioned by A. Grafton in his Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship. (London, 1990), but was, as his former history of Friesland, another quasi-Annian pseud-historical account of Friesland, describing the lives of 165 authors. Although subsequently defended by Petri’s acolyte Bernhard Furmerius (Annalia Phrisicorum, Franeker and Leeuwarden, 1609-17, see Bib# 4102809/Fr# 281), the tall tales of early Frisian civilization were effectively demolished by Ubbo Emmius, in De origine atque antiquitatibus Frisorum, contra Suffridam Petri & Bernardum Furmerium (Groningen, 1603, see Bib# 4102808/Fr# 280)). Franeker nevertheless reprinted the work in a duodecimo format in 1699.

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