The Mythical 1522 and 1526 Hans van Ruremund Dutch New Testaments

Abstract

Two extant early Dutch printed scriptural editions, both in mainstream Dutch, name Hans van Ruremund as their printer: a four-volume 1525 Old Testament in decimosexto, and a September 1525 New Testament in octavo. A 1526 New Testament in the Low Saxon dialect in a decimosexto format of which no copies are extant also named Van Ruremund as its printer. However, beginning with Isaac Le Long in 1732, a succession of major scriptural bibliographers have ascribed to Van Ruremund the printing of additional mainstream Dutch New Testament editions, variously of 1522 and 1526. I seek to show that they were mistaken, and why each erred.