| Record ID | cp010093 |
| Voet reference number | 588 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1133236 |
| Author | ARIAS MONTANUS (MONTANO) Benedictus |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page: see reproduction] |
| Collation | 8⁰ (195 × 122): A-I⁸, K⁴, A-B⁸; pages [1-152], 1-30, [31-32] |
| Fingerprint | 157108 - # |
| Number of sheets | 11.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 9 March 1570, signed by I. de Langhe; in roman type capitals) [3-5]: Christophorus Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 May 1571) [6]: Christo liberatori S. (10 lines Latin poem, italic type) [7]: illustration [8-147]: Text (on the left page: Latin poem, in italic type; on the right page: illustration, with, printed typographically, above a caption in roman type capitals and a distichon in italic type, underneath a line in roman type capitals) [148-149]: Approbationes (Louvain, 17 March 1571, signed by Augustinus Hunnaeus; Antwerp, 1 March 1570 old style, signed by Silvester Pardo; Antwerp, s. Franciscus Sonnius) [150-151]: Bened. Ariae Montani carmen votivum ad Christum Iesum (italic type) [152]: Blank [1]: Christophorus Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 August 1571) [2]: Note on the book 3-27: Annotations in odas Bened. Ariae Montani (italic type, parts in roman type) 28-30: List of the illustrations (italic type) [31-32]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Title-page: 170 × 115, with the monogram of the designer and/or engraver Pieter Huys and the date 1571 2) On page [7]: Circular portrait, diam. 85, of the Christ looking at the left 3) From page [9] on: 70 illustrations, c. 112 × c. 72, with senes from the Old and the New Testament, many with the monograms of the designers (Pieter van der Borcht: signed 62 of the 70 illustrations; Crispin van den Broeck: illustration no. 41 [F5]; the illustrations not signed - illustrations nos. 12 [B8], 15 [C3], 16 [C4], 29 [E1], 30 [E6], 34 [E6], 38 [F2] - were very likely also designed by van der Borcht), and of the engravers (Abraham de Bruyn: nos. 1 [A5], 2 [A6], 3 [A7], 5 [B1], 9 [B5], 10 [B6], 11 [B7], 14 [C2], 15 [C3], 18-24 [C6-D4], 27 [D7], 28 [D8], 33 [E5], 41 [F5], 46 [G2], 69 [K1]; Pieter Huys: nos. 16 [C4], 35 [E7], 37 [F1], 49 [G5], 60 [H8], 66 [I6]; Joannes Wiericx: nos. 7 [B3], 12 [B8], 17 [C5], 26 [D6], 31 [E3], 32 [E4], 39 [F3], 43 [F7], 45 [G1], 48 [G4], 50 [G6], 51 [G7], 54 [H2], 55 [H3], 56 [H4], 58 [H6], 59 [H7], 61 [I1], 62 [I2], 64 [I4], 65 [I5], 67 [I7], 68 [I8], 70 [K2]; Hieronymus Wiericx: nos. 8 [B4], 13 [C1], 36 [E8], 42 [F6], 44 [F8], 47 [G3], 52 [G8], 53 [H1], 63 [I3]); Notes: a) the year 1570 figures on illustration no. 17 [C5], the year 1572 on illustrations nos. 58 [H6], 61 [I1], 70 [K2]; b) the list of ills, enumerates 71 illustrations (not counting the title-page and the circular portrait); in fact there are only 70: in the list, by mistake, the enumeration jumps from 9 to 11 4) Each illustration within a border - also in copper engraving - with flowers and animals; six different types, one with the monogram of P. Huys, one with the monogram of the engraver Jan Sadeler, four without monogram |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 387: pages 7-10 missingKBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library LondonInstitute of Arts, Detroit - cf. C.E. Selby, 'A book from the Plantin Press' in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 45, 2, 1966, pages 36-37 |
| Bibliographical references | Morales, nos. 19 and 23 Palau y Dulcet, I, page 474, no. 16466 J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1554-1949, 1970, no. 26 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12927514 |
| Note 1 | The two forewords by Plantin are dated 1 May and 1 August 1571; the two dated approbationes are of 1 March 1571 [n.s.] and 17 March 1571; the privilege is dated 9 March 1571 [n.s.]. On 5, 12 and 19 March 1571 the pressman G. van Spangenberghe was paid for having printed the sheets A-G of Mon. salutis (Arch. 31, folio 177 verso) and again on 31 August 1571 for the sheets AB of the Commentariis monumenta Salutis (Arch. 32, folio 4 recto). The illustrations commissioned to the brothers Wiericx were paid from 14 March 1570 till 20 October 1571 (Joannes received 8 florins Carolus guilders per piece, Hieronymus 5 florins Carolus guilders: Rooses, M. Musée Plantin-Moretus, page 186). P. Huys was paid 8 florins Carolus guilders for the title-page on 21 October 1571 (Arch. 31, folio 64 recto). The edition was actually finished in October 1571: on the 3rd of the month 4 copies were sent to Cardinal Granvelle in Italy (Correspondance de C. Plantin, II, no. 301) and on 25 October 6 bound copies were noted on the account of Arias Montanus (worth 21 florins Carolus guilders, but the entry was crossed out and the 6 copies thus considered to be a gift) (Arch. 16, opening 108 left). |
| Note 2 | It is, consequently, quite clear that in October 1571 an edition of the Monumenta was published by Plantin. The problem is now which of the three known editions may be considered to be the editio princeps - and if, eventually, there have not been other editions as well. In a letter of 22 September 1583 (Correspondance, VII, no. 1011), Arias Montanus states explicitly that the edition then under discussion was the third (see no. cp012128). This seems to settle the question as to the number of editions of the Monumenta published by Plantin. The in 4⁰ edition is most certainly of 1583. This leaves only the two in 8⁰ publications. Both have the same illustrations, with the exception of the title-page and one text-illustration. The type used for the typographical texts in no. 588 were all available in the press from at least 1569-1570, but some, used in the other edition, were only cast in 1579-1580. The in 8⁰ edition described here, with the great title-page and the illustrations within a border, must, consequently, have been the editio princeps of 1571. The other, described under the following no., with the small title-page and the illustrations without border, must have been published at a later date (in 1581). |
| Note 3 | The fact that some of the illustrations show the date of 1572 has confused many bibliographers. Plantin, when an edition appeared late in a given year, usually gives the following year as year of publication on the title-page. It may be assumed that in the case of the Monumenta for similar reasons the engraver inscribed the year 1572 on some plates when, in fact, he finished them in 1571. |
| Note 4 | Arias Montanus must have had some difficulties with the Spanish Inquisition about this publication. In a letter of end June 1572 to his friend (the theologian stayed then in Italy), Plantin wrote that he had heard that the Monumenta was held as suspect by the Spanish 'inquisitores' and its sale forbidden (Correspondance de C. Plantin, III, no. 395: 'Monumenta vero quantum ab aliis audio a nonnullis Inquisitoribus adhuc suspecta habentur et prohibita'). |
| Note 5 | M 296 , folio 11 verso, lists one in 8⁰ edition of the Monumenta, which, according to the number of sheets noted, must be this first edition: 'Monumenta humane salutis 8⁰ cum fig[uris] aeneis etc. a⁰ -, f[euilles] 11½, [price:] flor. 3'. |
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