| Record ID | cp010017 |
| Voet reference number | 1949 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Gabriel SYMEON (SIMEONI) |
| Title page transcription | LES ‖ DEVISES ‖ HEROIQVES, ‖ De M. Claude Paradin, Chanoine ‖ de Beaujeu, ‖ Du Signeur Gabriel Symeon, & au- ‖ tres Aucteurs. ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle ‖ Plantin, ‖ M.D.LXI. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 16mo (104 × 72): A-Y⁸; folios 1r-176v (Errors: not checked for the whole work; anyway 163 for 173) |
| Fingerprint | 156116 - # b1 A2 s:$c : # b2 Y5 els$ |
| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Blank 2r-3v: A tresnoble signeur, monsieur Theode Marze, chevalier, baron, et signeur dudit lieu, de Belle-Roche, Lassenaz, etc. Claude Paradin, Salut (Beaujeu, 15 January 1556) 4r-151v: Text (italic type, parts and marginals in roman type, words in greek type) 152r: LES DIVISES OV ‖ EMEMES HEROIQVES ‖ DV SIGNEVR GABRIEL SIMEON [emblem-woodcut with explanation] 152v-176r: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) [176v]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 216 woodcuts, of varying dimensions, representing emblems (179 for Paradin; 37 for Symeon). The original wood-blocks are still preserved in Museum Plantin-Moretus. There are no references in the Plantinian archives on the woodcutter(s) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 758: incomplete- missing: folios 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 21, 30, 33, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 51, 57, 60, 65, 74, 77, 78, 80, 84, 85, 93, 94, 101, 102, 106, 111, 132, 133, 139, 142, 150, 155, 157, 164, 171, 176University of Glasgow Library - Glasgow (Great Britain)- two copies |
| Bibliographical references | Praz, M. Seventeenth-Century Imagery, page 444 J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1970, no. 465 J. Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 1976, no. 565 Not in Ruelens-de BackerCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6497 Landwehr, J. Emblem & fable books (3rd ed.) 597 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12919905 |
| Note 1 | Emblem-books of two authors: Paradin, Les devises heroiques (with 179 woodcut-illustrations); Symeon (Simeoni), Les devises ou emblemes heroiques (with on the title-page, folio 152r, an illustration with dedication to Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoie; 37 woodcut-illustrations). Each emblem-illustration with a Latin caption and a French explanation. |
| Note 2 | Reprint of editions of Lyons: a) Paradin: Lyons, Ian de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1551 (118 illustrations) and 1557 (182 illustrations); b) Symeon: Lyons, G. Roville, 1559 (cf. Landwehr and Praz, loc. cit.). |
| Note 3 | On 7 April 1561 800 'divises heroiques de paradin gab. Symeon etc. 16⁰ Plantin 1561' were shipped to Martin le Jeune, Paris (Arch. 36, folio 3r), and on 28 April 1561 30 'Divises Heroiques', worth 7 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, delivered to Pierre du Pré (Ibidem, folio 5v). |
| Note 4 | In M 296, folio 5v, and M 164, folio 10r, is listed as the only French Paradin-edition: 'Devises Heroiques de Paradin, 16⁰, f[euilles] 10, [price:] stuivers 2½'. The entry very likely refers not to the 1561- and 1562-editions (which have 11 sheets) but to the 1567-edition (which has 10 sheets). |
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