Title: Thet Oera Linda bok. Naar een handschrift uit de dertiende eeuw. Eigendom der familie Over de Linden, aan den Helder, bewerkt, vertaald en uitgegeven door Dr. J. G. Ottema. Tweede Uitgave
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Large 8vo. pp. xxxviii p., f. 1, pp. 253. Contains 3 plates, including 2 folded facsimiles. Ex libris plate of J. J. Kalma inside front cover. Ownership inscription of W. C. A. van Vredenburch (“N°123”) on half title. Dutch and Frisian on opposite pages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second edition of a hoax by Cornelis over de Linden, still defended in some quarters. Thet Oera Linda bok is a ‘family chronicle’ forged circa 1850 by Cornelis over de Linden, a Dutch civil servant, François HaverSchmidt, and Eelco Verwijs to establish over de Lindens allegedly noble descent but also to trick Frisian nationalists and Bible fanatics. Despite the obvious presence of much nonsense in the text, the editor of the manuscript, the scholar Jan Gerardus Ottema, believed it to be genuine. It traced the history of Frisia from 2193 BC forward, advancing the claims of a ‘Nordic’ race earlier than any migratory invaders. Although briefly fashionable in its time, with editions in Dutch (first edition, see Bib# 4103044/Fr# 1395) and English (1876), it was already being dismissed by Jan Beckering Vinckers in De onechtheid van het Oera Linda-Bôk (Haarlem, 1876, see Bib# 4103050/Fr# 1401), and later scholarship sought mainly to determine the inventor. But in 1933 Herman Wirth revived its thesis of Nordic racial primacy, which naturally enough attracted Nazi ideologues. See G. Jensma, “How to Deal with Holy Books in an Age of Emerging Science. The Oera Linda Book as a New Age Bible.” In: Fabula, 48 (2007), 1-2, pp. 229-249.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103045" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>