| Record ID | cp010098 |
| Voet reference number | 1315 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | HERODIANUS |
| Title page transcription | HERODIANI ‖ HISTORIÆ DE ‖ IMPERIO POST ‖ MARCVM: ‖ VEL, ‖ DE SVIS TEMPORIBVS, ‖ LIBRI VIII. ‖ Angelo Politiano interprete. ‖⊕ 19 ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ CIƆ. IƆ. LXVI. |
| Collation | 16mo [85]: A-P⁸; pages 1-239, [240] (Errors: 40 for 100) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-4: Angelus Politianus Andreae Magnanimo suo signed by (Fiesole, 6 May 1493; italic type) 5-7: Angeli Politiani ad Innocentium VIII, pontificem maximum, praefatio in Herodiani historiam, e Graeco in Latinum conversam (italic type) 8: Ex Raphaele Volaterrano (note on Herodianus; italic type) 7-239: Text 239: EXCVDEBAT ANTVERPIAE ‖ CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS ‖ ANNO DOMINI CIƆ. IƆ. LXVI. ‖ NONIS. IVLII [240]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 489KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de PortugalBritish Library LondonVatican Apolstolic Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 59 (1566, no. 23) |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Latin translation of the Greek 'Historiae' of Herodianus by the Italian humanist Angelus Politianus, finished in May 1493. |
| Note 2 | The Latin translation was first printed in 1498, as part of the Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani, Venice, Aldus Manutius. The Greek text and the Latin translation were published in the Xenophontis omissa, Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1503, and again in a separate edition in 1524, Venice, In aedibus Aldi et And. Asulani soc. Plantin's edition must be a reprint of one of these publications. |
| Note 3 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 108, gives the following details about 'Herodianus 16º,: the wages for composing and printing quires A-H (at 2 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers per sheet and the 'format' 6 stuivers) are noted on 22 June 1566 for 9 florins Carolus guilders 14 stuivers; the wages for quires I-P are entered, at an unspecified date, for 8 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers; together for composing and printing 17 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers 1,500 copies were printed. At 7½ sheets per copy, 23 reams of paper 'petit carré' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, came to 32 florins Carolus guilders, bringing the overall costs to 49 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers |
| Note 4 | According to the colophon the printing was finished on 7 July 1566. |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Herodianus historicus 16º, f[euilles] 7½, [price:] stuivers 1½). |
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