| Record ID | cp010060 |
| Voet reference number | 1466 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132937 |
| Author | Jean de la JESSÉE (GESSÉE) |
| Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-compartment:] † LES □ PREMIERES ‖ OEVVRES ‖ FRANÇOYSES ‖ DE ‖ IEAN DE LA lESSE'E, ‖ Secretaire de la Chambre ‖ de Monseigneur. ‖ PREMIER VOLVME. ‖ ⊕ 34 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin. ‖ CIϽ.IϽ.LXXXIII. ‡ Auec Priuilege du Roy, ‖ & de son Alteze. |
| Collation | 4º (222 × 165): *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, AA-ZZ⁸, aa-zz⁸, Aa-Bb⁸, Cc-Ff⁴; pages [1-16], 1-1503, [1504-1536] (Errors: 254 for 354, 336 for 366, 456 for 459, 116 for 516, 140 for 540, 536 for 636, 639 for 739, 1054 for 1058, 1122 for 1182, 1138 for 1238) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-12]: A monseigneur François de France, frere unique du roy…(Antwerp, 20 December 1582, signed by La Iessee; marginals in italic type) [13]: Les Ieunesses de Iean de la Iessée. Tome premier (= in form of title-page) [14]: Blank [15]: illustration [16]: De Apolline, et Francisco Franciae (8 lines Latin poem) 1-1503: Text (each of the 4 'tomes' starting with title followed by blank; italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) [1504]: Christofle Plantin aus lecteurs [1505]: Table [1505-1530]: Indices (on three columns) [1530]: Errata [1531-1534]: Privilege (to Iean de la Iessée: Paris, 26 July 1578, s. De Vabres; Antwerp, 5 May 1582, s. D'Asseliers) [1534]: Permission to print granted by Iean de la lessée to Plantin (Antwerp, 25 December 1582) [1535-1536]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | Copper engraving, 155 × 116, on page [15]: Portrait of the author, represented as a poet laureate in a medallion, with the inscription 'ET LAVRO, ET MYRTO', and underneath the medallion 'AN. ÆTA. XXXI.'. No monogram, but this 'pourtrait de Jessée' was paid to Joannes Wiericx 12 florins Carolus guilders on 10 October 1582 (Arch. 14, folio 76) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 58.11- R 54.21KBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library LondonBibliothèque nationale de France |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 258 (1583, no. 26) |
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| Note 1 | Collection of French poetry in 4 'tomes', each itself divided into 'livres': I. 'Les ieunesses' (pages 1-216, divided into six 'livres'; the 6th 'livre', pages 185-216, with a number of poems addressed to and in honour of members of the French royal family and French personalities, including poets); II. 'Les Meslanges' (pages 217-767, divided into 7 'livres'; some poems also dedicated to or in honour of French personalities; 5th 'livre': 'Imitations, et traductions' of classical Greek and Latin authors; 6th 'livre': 'Imitations, et traductions' of Ariosto; 7th 'livre': 'Imitations, et traductions' of the Bible); III. 'Les Amours' (pages 769-1359; divided into: La Marguerite [pages 771-1081; 4 'livres'], La Severe [pages 1083-1273; 3 'livres'], La Grasinde [pages 1275-1359; 2 'livres'); IV. 'Les discours poétiques' (pages 1361-1503; divided into 2 'livres'). |
| Note 2 | In 'Christofle Plantin aus lecteurs' the printer explains that this is the first volume of the 'Premières Oeuvres Françoyses du Sieur de la Iessée', and that he has the intention to publish the two remaining volumes 'à la première commodité', detailing in broad outline their content ('Elles contiennent plusieurs Livres d'Odes, Hymnes, Elegies, Eclogues, Odes-Satyres, Satyres, Contr'-Amours, Tragedies, et Epitaphes. Il y a aussi quelques petis Poëmes composez sur divers subiectz de la Saincte Escriture, et quatre ou cinq livres en prose Françoyse'). Owing to the political difficulties the Duke of Anjou met at Antwerp (unsuccessful attempt to seize the city, known as the 'French Fury', January 1583), causing his sudden departure and that of his followers (including de la Jessée), the project of publishing the two remaining volumes by the Plantin Press must have abandoned. De la Jessée does not seem to have found another publisher for these parts of his 'oeuvres françoyses'. |
| Note 3 | Of the 'Oeuvres de Jessée' 58 copies still remained in stock in the Plantin Press in 1642 (cf. L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, page 460). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 14r (Oeures poëtiques de Jan de la Jessée, 1583, 4º, f[euilles] 194, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 3), and M 321. |
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