Origo & historia belgicorum tumultuum
Subtitle: Immanissimaeque crudelitatis per Cliviam & VVestphaliam patratae fidelissime conscripta & tabellis aeneis repraesentata: accedit Historia de furoribus gallicis
By: Auctore Ernesto Eremundo Frisio
Contributors: Hotman, François, 1524-1590
Publisher: Apus Bartholomeum vander Bild, ad insigne pegasi
Published: 1619
Place of publication: Lugduni Batav[orum]. [i.e. Leiden]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Massacres; Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572; History
Other titles: Origo et historia belgicorum tumultuum.; Origo & historia belgicorvm tvmvltvvm.; Origo et historia belgicorvm tvmvltvvm.
Work titles: Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-Landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden
Notes: Roman numeral dates on title pages made with backwards C's.

Attributed to Johannes Gysius by Alde, the Koninkijke Bibliotheek library catalog, and Biblioteca Belgica.

According the Koninkijke Bibliotheek library catalog Ernesto Eremundo was the pseudonym for Johannes Gysius, and.

"Historia tragica de furoribus gallicis & caede admirallij narratio" attributed to Ernestus Varamundus was the pseudonym for François Hotman.

Translation of the author's: Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-Landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden, first printed [Leyden?], 1616.

"Appendix sive Historia tragica de furoribus gallicis & caede admirallij narratio" by François Hotman, p. [1]-46, 3rd count, has separate dated title page with imprint: Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Apud Bartholom[a]eum à Bilt, ad inter signe pegasi. Anno M D CXIX.

Gysius' work is primarily about the Dutch wars of independence and the atrocities perpetrated by the Spaniards in their rule of the Netherlands; also includes American references to Peru and to the Spanish massacre of the French in Florida, which occurred in 1565.

Hotman's work is a contemporary account, from the Huguenot perspective, of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. It was first printed in Edinburgh [i.e. Basel], 1573.

Signatures: pi⁸ (pi1 blank, pi2, pi7 versos blank) A-S⁸ ²A-²C⁸ (-²C8)

Woodcut printer's vignettes on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Bibl. Belgica III:371.

European Americana 619/63.

John Carter Brown LIbrary copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy has English annotation signed J.B. on recto of blank leaf pi1.