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| Record ID | cp010022 |
| Voet reference number | 35A |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1120694 |
| Uniform title | LES SECRETS: French editions |
| Title page transcription | LES ‖ SECRETS DV ‖ SEIGNEVR ALEXIS ‖ PIEMONTOIS, ‖ DIVISEZ EN DEVX PARTIES ‖ ET CHACVNE D'ICELLES ‖ EN SIX LIVRES. ‖ LES RECEPTES DE DIVERS ‖ Auteurs toutes bien experimentées, ‖ & approuuées. ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin, ‖ au Compas d'or: l'An ‖ M.D.LXI. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: *-***⁸, ****, a-l⁸; folios [1 recto-26 verso], 1 recto-87 verso, [88 recto-verso] (Errors: 16 for 19, 6 for 60) |
| Fingerprint | 156108 - # b1 2a2 se$au : # b2 2i3 &$l |
| Number of sheets | 8.50 |
| Pages | [1 recto]: Title [1 versp]: Privilege (Brussels, [Council of Brabant], 13 November, signed by P. de Lens, and Privy Council, 2 March, signed by De la Torre) [2 recto]: Avertissement au lecteur (7 July 1561; italic type) [2 verso-3 verso: Epistre proemiale de l'auteur pour la premiere edition. Au lecteur [4 recto-4 verso]: Epistre de la seconde edition (italic type) [5 recto-26 verso]: Table (italic type) 1 recto-87 verso: Text (parts in italic type) [88 recto-verso]: Blank |
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| Bibliographical references | Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5025 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12918580USTC 30789STCV c:stcv:12918581STCV c:stcv:12918582 |
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II.
| Title page transcription | ❧ SECRETS, OV ‖ RECEPTES SOVVERAINES, ‖ BIEN EXPERIMENTE'ES ET ‖ APPROVVE'ES PAR ‖ DIVERS AV- ‖ TEVRS. ‖ CONTENANTES SINGVLIERS ‖ Remedes contre diuerses maladies: ‖ Auec plusieurs autres sciences artificielles, fort ‖ proffìtables à vn chacun. ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin, ‖ au Compas d'or. l'An ‖ M.D. LXI. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: A-G⁸; folios 1 recto-56 verso |
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| Pages | [1 recto]: Title [1 verso]: Privilege (Brussels, [Council of Brabant], 13 November 1557, signed by P. de Lens, and Privy Council, 2 March 1557, signed by De la Torre) 2 recto-56 recto: Text 56 verso: Blank |
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III.
| Title page transcription | LA SECONDE PARTIE ‖ DES SECRETS DV SIGN. ‖ ALEXIS PIEMONTOIS ‖ ET D'AVTRES EX- ‖ CELLENS AV- ‖ CTEVRS, ‖ DIVISEE EN SIX LIVRES. ‖ Traduicte nouuellement d'Italien en François ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin. ‖ M.D.LXI ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [129]: aa-hh⁸, ii⁴; folios 1 recto-67 verso, [68 recto-verso] |
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| Pages | [1 recto]: Title [1 verso]: Privilege (Brussels, [Council of Brabant], 13 November, signed by P. de Lens, and Privy Council, 2 March, signed by De la Torre) 2 recto-67 verso: Text [68 recto-verso]: Blank |
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| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 133Vatican Apolstolic Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 29-30 (1561, nos. 12 and 13) Ferguson, no. 30 |
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| Note 1 | Printed in three parts, presented formally as three publications, but in fact forming but one edition. The order is given by the table in part 1: a) Part 1: the first part of the Secrets of Alexis Piemontois, divided in six books; b) Part 2: Secrets, ou receptes souveraines, bien experimentées et approuvées par divers auteurs, divided in Secrets, ou receptes de divers auteurs (folios 2 recto-35 recto) and…receptes touchant le maniement de divers metaus (folios 35 recto-56 recto); c) Part 3: 2nd part of the Secrets of Alexis Piemontois, divided in six books. |
| Note 2 | Compared with the 1559-edition, the order has been changed: part 3 has became part 2, and part 2 figures now as part 3. Parts 1 and 2 are reprinted from the 1559-edition; part 3 is a re-arrangement of part 2 of 1559. |
| Note 3 | The comment on the dubious authenticity of the second volume of the Secrets of Alexis Piemontois has been replaced by a far more succinct and carefully worded text: 'Tu as d'avantage icy la seconde partie du mesme Auteur nouvellement traduite d'une fidélité non doutable'. |
| Note 4 | 12 copies were sold, at 5 stuivers a piece, to Pierre du Pré on 28 April 1561 (Arch. 36, folio 5 verso). |
| Note 5 | A number of copies received a title-page with the imprint of the Parisian bookseller, Martin le Jeune (see following no.). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 18 recto ([Secrets d'Alexis. In 8⁰] A⁰ 1561, f[euilles] 29½). |
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