| Record ID | cp010002 |
| Voet reference number | 717 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | TESTAMENTEN DER XII PATRIARCHEN |
| Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-frame:] □ HET NIEVVVE ‖ TESTAMENT ‖ ONS HEEREN ‖ IESV CHRISTI. ‖ Met ghetalen aen de canten gestelt, vvaer ‖ door de veersen bescheeden vvorden, ‖ tot de aenvvijsinghe der heyliger Schrif- ‖ tueren dienende. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ T'ANTVVERPEN, ‖ By Christoffel Plantijn, Hooft- ‖ printer der Con. Mateyt. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. ‖ Met Gratie ende Priuilegie. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (170 × 109): *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-t⁸, v⁴; pages [1-16], 1-679, [680], Each page printed within double lines. 20 lines of running text measure 69.0 mm. |
| Fingerprint | 157708 - # *a1 *2 de$6 : # *a2 *5 ouw - # *1b1 A wo : # *1b2 Z5 n$gh - # *2b1 a so : # *2b2 v3 e$mae |
| Number of sheets | 43.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-16]: Calendar (gothic type, parts in roman type and italic type, parts in red) 1-640: Text (gothic type, parts in roman type, marginals in gothic type) 641-671: De Epistelen wt den Ouden Testamente diemen iaerlijcx inder kercken leest (gothic type, parts in roman type) 672-679: De tafel, om te vinden de Epistelen ende Evangelien…(on two columns separated by double lines; gothic type, parts in roman type) 679: Privilege (Brussels, Privy Council, 13 March [1564], and Council of Brabant, 17 March 1564, signed by De Langhe) [680]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts:
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| Typefaces | Body: Van den Keere's Small Pica Textura (Vervliet T 40; punches: MPM.ST.038; matrices: MPM.MA.044). Summaries and marginal notes: Van den Keere's Minion Textura (Vervliet T 50; punches: MPM.ST.042; matrices: MPM.MA.068). Chapter titles: Van den Keere's Minion Roman (Vervliet R 34; punches: MPM.ST.021 (lower case only); matrices: MPM.MA.062, MPM.MA.148, MPM.MA.161). Running titles: undefined Roman |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 590KBR Royal Library of Belgium - II 12.258 A Ghent University Library - Th.002828Norbertine Abbey, Heeswijk - 225.5.bijb.1577; incomplete)University Library NijmegenRoyal Danish Library Protestant Episcopal Church, New York University Library Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - OK 62-5609 University Library Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - XC.06727 Dutch Bible Society, Haarlem - 34"1579"-Nieu(Plan) Bib. Casanatense, Rome Grootseminarie, Bruges - W 11.534 St Peters Abbey, Assebroek - 73 A M. Sabbe Library, Leuven - P 225.055.1 BIJB 1577 University Library Maastricht - MU 2043 E 26 University Library Tilburg - CBC TFK A 16796 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 182 (1577, no. 14) [Ruelens-de Backer, pages 195-196 (1578, no. 43): Nieuwe Testament, 1578, is an error and refers also to this 1577-edition] Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3643 BT 517 NB 4757 Biblia Sacra 1577.NT.dut.CP.a STCN 333443527 STCV 12916299 USTC 421746 A. Pettegree & M. Walsby, Netherlandish Books, 2011 no. 4757 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12916299 |
| Note 1 | Reprint of the 1571-edition. |
| Note 2 | Listed in M 296, folio 13r (Nieuwe Testam[ent] in 8⁰ duysch [= Dutch] a⁰ 1577, f[euilles] 43½, [price:] stuivers 7). |
| Note 3 | The edition contains the translation by the Leuven canon Nicolas van Winghe, first published in 1548 by the Leuven printer Bartholomeus Gravius. |
| Note 4 | The copy of the 1577 edition is not Plantin's former edition of 1571 (PP cp012871) as Voet erroneously mentioned, but the edition of Hendrik Wouters of 1576 (STCV 12916308). After typographical analysis, the Antwerp printer Mattheus van Roye has been identified as the printer of this edition. Fragments of the original copy lay for centuries at the bottom of a type case. They were found in 1895 and immediately forgotten until they reappeared again in 2016. The 4 loose folio's have been given the call number L 3315. The folio's contain marginal notes for the compositors regarding the start of new pages and the insertion of the illustrations. |
| Note 5 | The original privileges granted by the Privy Council (13 March 1564 [= 1565]; Arch. 1179 charter 139b) and the Council of Brabant (17 March 1564 [= 1565]; Arch. 1179 charter 31) are still kept in the Plantin-Moretus archives. |
| Note 6 | Printer Hans Clas printed the first quire A in the week of 16 September 1576. Surprisingly, compositor Cornelis de Breun was paid for the same quire only the next week. The next payments were in the right order. After the composing of quire H in the week of 20 October 1576, the project was temporarily halted, probably because of the Spanish Fury on 4 November 1576. Hans Han composed quire I in the week of 7 December 1576. The next week Guillaume Rivière printed quire H. Both continued the project. From the week of 19 January 1577 a second press and compositor joined the project. Claes van Linschoten printed the forms composed by Hubert Coesmans. Compositor Hans Hans accomplished the last quire on 23 February 1577. The printed was finished on 2 March 1577. The composing and printing chronology is derived from the journeymen's ledger 1571-1579, Arch. 31 (Cornelis de Breun, folio 201r; Hans Clas, folio 2034r; Claes van Linschoten, folio 242r; Hubert Coesmans, folio 262v; Hans Han, folio 269v; Guillaume Rivière, folio 2033r) |
| Further reading | Kristof Selleslach, 'De kopij van het Plantijnse Nievvve testament van 1577 met een analyse van de privileges', in De Gulden Passer 97:1 (2019), pages 41-58. |
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