| Record ID | cp010106 |
| Voet reference number | 2335 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Livinus TORRENTIUS (VAN DER BEKEN) |
| Title page transcription | LÆVINI TORRENTII ‖ in ‖ C. SVETONII ‖ TRANQVILLI ‖ XII. Cæsares ‖ COMMENTARII. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXVIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [132]: A-Z⁸, a-o⁸; pages 1-590, [591-592] (Errors: 105 for 195) |
| Fingerprint | 157808 - # 1b1 A2 sse$se : # 1b2 Z5 t$Cl - # 2b1 a u : # 2b2 o5 su |
| Number of sheets | 37 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 30 July 1575, signed by Iac. Blyleven) [3]-4: Laevinus Torrentius Cornelio Prunio suo (1 April 1578) 5-590: Text (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) [591-592]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 65 woodcuts, representing Roman coins: a) 47 showing one side (diam. 35): on pages 5, 6, 44, 69, 88, 89, 106, 115, 118, 123, 131, 135, 147, 154, 166, 206, 218, 226, 281, 290, 292, 341, 342, 343, 351, 353, 389, 404, 405, 421, 423, 437, 468, 473, 477 (two illustrations on one page), 489 (two illustrations on one page), 501, 506, 507, 520, 523, 548, 559, 564, 576 b) 18 showing both sides (35 × c. 60): on pages 10, 81, 110, 118, 121, 272, 309 (two illustrations on one page), 310, 338, 343, 356 (two illustrations on one page), 380, 384, 404, 563,578 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1689 - A 1724Allard PiersonHeritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpStaats- und Stadtbibliothek AugsburgBamberg State Library - Bamberg (Germany, DDR)University Library Basel - Basel (Switserland)Municipal Library BrugesKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeJagiellonian Library - Cracow (Poland)Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - Douai (France, dép. Nord)University Library of Erlangen-NürnbergUniversity Library GentGöttingen State and University LibraryHeidelberg University LibraryBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBayerische StaatsbibliothekBibliothèque nationale de FranceBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di RomaBNU National University Library Strasbourg - Strasbourg (France, dép. Bas-Rhin)Municipal Library ToulouseMunicipal Library TroyesUppsala University LibraryVatican Apostolic LibraryBiblioteca San Marco, VeniceAustrian National Library. BB also lists Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, and Landesbibliothek, Dresden.UL Liège- XVII.178.014 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 184 (1578, no. 7) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), V, pages 380-381Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.) T 156 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6914 Dekesel, C.E. Bibliothecae Universitatis Gandavensis numismatica selecta 1514-1599, p. 298-303 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12917753USTC 414927 |
| Note 1 | Comments on Suetonius's Twelve Caesars, bearing as well upon the restitution of the text as upon the explication of that same text and the elucidation of specific details of Roman history, archaeology and prosody; based, besides the study of the classical authors, on the examination of coins (some belonging to Torrentius's own collection) and on inscriptions, the author referring occasionally to marbles he had seen in Italy. Torrentius himself had some manuscripts of Suetonius and studied others, quoting a Vaticanus, a Tornacensis (probably the one used by Erasmus for his edition of Suetonius), a Lovaniensis, a Ferrariensis, besides a manuscript of Lucianus from Verdun and a manuscript of Seneca from St. Jacobus of Liège. This study of Torrentius has been much appreciated by the scholars. Cf. BB, op. cit. |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory to Prunius, the author explains that the work was the result of years of study. From his youth, when studying civil law, he had admired Suetonius for his style as well as for the content so useful for a lawyer. Since then he had continued to gather all that he could find on the Roman historian, visiting 'old libraries' (libraries with old manuscripts), and together with Carolus Langius (on the contribution of Torrentius's friend: BB, V, pages 380-381) he had collated many manuscripts. His study was more specifically intended to complement the Suetonius-edition (with comments) edited by Pulmannus (Plantin, 1574: see no. cp011155), and furthermore the comments by Philippus Beroaldus, Antonius Sabellicus 'and others'. |
| Note 3 | The original manuscript of Torrentius's work is preserved in KBR Royal Library of Belgium (Ms. 3526). |
| Note 4 | A new edition, together with the text itself of the XII Caesares, was published by the Plantin Press in 1592 (cf. BB, V, page 283). |
| Note 5 | The publication is mentioned incidentally in some of Plantin's letters: to Arias Montanus, 4 February 1579 (Corr., VI, no. 820: 'Laevinus Torrentius valet, superiori aestate commentarium ejus in Suetonium impressi, pollicetur se mihi commentaria in Horatium missurum…'); to J. Buyssetius, 10 December 1579 (Ibidem, no. 851, page 114: 'Laevinus Torr[entius] in Suetonium 8⁰' figures among the works published by Plantin in the last two years); to Torrentius, 1 April 1580 (Ibidem, no. 872: 'Vos commentaires in Suetonium ont telement pleu qu'il m'en reste peu d'exemplaires. Parquoy quand il vous plaira envoyer les augmentations je le reimpremeray volontiers in folio…'). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 3r (Comme [n] t [ari] a Levini Torre[n]t. in Suetonium, 8⁰, 1578, f[euilles] 37, [price:] stuivers 10) and folio 10v, and M 164, folio 6v. |
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