| Record ID | cp010089 |
| Voet reference number | 2189 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1100173 |
| Author | SCHOON SCHONAEUS (SCONAEUS |
| Title page transcription | TOBÆVS, ‖ COMOEDIA ‖ SACRA ET NOVA, ‖ A MVLTIS MENDIS QVIBVS ‖ antè scatebat repurgata, atque ‖ diligenter recognita: ‖ CORNELIO SCHOVÆO (= sic) Goudano ‖ Auctore, Gymnasiarcha Harlemensi. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [131]: A-D⁸, E⁴; pages 1-71, [72] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Hadriani Iunii hexastichon sub persona auctoris (italic type) 3-7: Honoratissimo vigilantissimoque Harlemianae civitatis senatui Cornelius Schonaeus Goudanus S.P.D. (Haarlem, 26 June 1568) 8: Actorum nomina 9-71: Text (italic type, marginals in roman type) 71: approbation (s. Waltherus vander Steeghen) [72]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 457- A 123 |
| Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
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| Note 1 | 'Comoedia sacra', i.e. a dramatic play on a Biblical subject: the history of the elder Tobaeus (= Tobit), who became poor and blind in his old age but was finally cured from his blindness by the actions of his son Tobias. |
| Note 2 | The foreword is dated Haarlem, 26 June 1568, and on the title-page it is specifically said that the text had been purged from many errors. Moreover, in the foreword to his Nehemias, printed by Plantin in 1570 (see no. cp010222), the author is complaining bitterly about the many errors left in the earlier edition of his Tobaeus. These indications led to the conclusion that in 1568-69, in any case before the Nehemias of 1570, Schonaeus must already have published his play on Tobaeus by an as yet not known typographer (anyway not Plantin; perhaps G. Silvius who printed in 1570 Schonaeus's Saulus: see no. cp010413; no copy known of this early edition) and had been disillusioned by the many errors the printer had left in the text. In 1579-1580, when contacting Plantin for publishing some of his other plays, he must have persuaded the typographer to bring also on the market a new, this time carefully corrected version of the Tobaeus. |
| Note 3 | Listed in M 296, folio 17v (Schonaei Corn. Goudani:…Tobaeus, 8⁰, f[euilles] 4½, [price:] stuivers 1) and folio 18v (Tobeus Comedia sacra Cornelii Schonaei…), and M 321. |
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