| Record ID | cp010119 |
| Voet reference number | 2443 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:402273 |
| Author | Joannes Antonius VIPERANUS (VIPERANO) |
| Title page transcription | IO. ANTONII ‖ VIPERANI ‖ DE REGE, ET REGNO ‖ LIBER. ‖ Ad Regem Philippum Caroli V. ‖ Imp. F. ‖ Eiusdem Io. Anto. Viperani de Historia scribenda liber. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [128]: A-G⁸; pages 1-108, [109-112] |
| Fingerprint | 156908 - # 1b1 A2 lor : # 1b2 G5 esse. - # 2b1 A2 ere. : # 2b2 E2 com |
| Number of sheets | 11.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-5: Regi Philippo Caroli vignette Imp. F. Io. Antonii Viperani carmen (italic type) 6-14: Regi Philippo Caroli vignette Imp. F. Io. Antonius Viperanus S.: praefatio 15-108: Text (italic type, parts in greek type) 108: approbation (s. Sebastianus Baer Delphius, Antwerp) [109]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 December 1568, signed by De Langhe) [110]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, s. Haller) [111-112]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 169Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBibliothèque nationale de France. |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 96 (1569, no. 26)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4782-4783 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7064335USTC 404594 |
| Note 1 | Historical treatise on monarchy and its foundations. |
| Note 2 | On the title-page is announced the De historia scribenda liber, which, however, is presented as a separate publication, and, as shown by the Plantinian catalogues, could be sold separately. In fact, the De historia scribenda liber was finished before the De rege et regno liber. |
| Note 3 | The printing by Plantin of both treatises was promoted by Cardinal Granvelle, then viceroy of Naples. Cf. Corr., I, no. 138 (Plantin to Stephanus Winandus Pighius, at that time librarian of Cardinal Granvelle at Brussels, 3 July 1568: he has received [through Granvelle] a manuscript 'de historia' written by a Sicilian [author], which with great pleasure he will print, if he could be assured that it had not yet been published before: 'Libellum Siculi manuscriptum de historia recepi, vir clarissime. Hunc libentissime imprimerem, si scrupulo mihi ex lectione dedicationis ad Illustrissimum injecto liberarer. Is autem est quod dubitem num liber jam antehac impressus fuerit, cum dicat se adductum fuisse ad hunc libellum emittendum postquam videsset historiam suam Melitensem ab amicis, se nescio, editam fuisse. Nam, si liber jam fuerit ab aliquo alio editus, abstinerem ab editione; si non, praelo, quam facere possem, citissime excuderem'); Corr., II, no. 155, page 13 (Plantin to Granvelle, 22 October 1568: will send 'les livrets de Rege et Regno et de Historia' to Brussels to get the privilege); Suppl. Corr., no. 78 (Granvelle to Plantin, 19 November 1568: the cardinal is glad to hear that Plantin has the intention to print soon 'celluy [livre] de scribenda historia et l'aultre de regnis'); Corr., II, no. 158 (Plantin to Granvelle, 20 November 1568: has sent a manuscript together with 'les deux autres livres De Rege et Regno et De historia scribenda' to Brussels to get the privilege); Ibidem, no. 180 (Plantin to Granvelle, 27 August 1569: 'J'envoye ici 2 exemplaires du livre de Viperanus de Scribenda Historia; l'autre, De Rege et Regno, sera de bref aussi achevé et en envoyeray tel nombre qu'il plaira…'); Ibidem, no. 199 (Plantin to Granvelle, 16 December 1569: he hopes that the Cardinal by now has received 'le livret de Rege et Regno'). Cf. also Corr., II, no. 189 (Thomas Corraeo, a Portuguese Jesuit, then in Rome, to Plantin, 2 November 1569: having been given by Cardinal Granvelle a copy of the 'De scribenda historia' of his friend J.A. Viperanus published by Plantin, he suggests to have some of his own works printed by the Antwerp typographer), and Suppl. Corr., no. 91 (Plantin to Camerarius, 22 March 1570: mails to the German scholar, with other works, a copy of 'Viperani de rege et regno'). |
| Note 4 | Some years later, Plantin, as he tells in a letter of 12-19 March 1575 to de Geneville, representative of Cardinal Granvelle, was approached to print Viperanus's De summo bono libri V. He refused as the work had already been published recently (in Naples, the same year), but proposes to de Geneville to reprint the De rege et regno and the De historia scribenda, if the author would make some additions (Corr., IV, no. 612). Plantin, finally, did not reprint the two publications (cf. also Plantin's letter to Viperanus, 13 November 1581: Corr., VII, no. 961, quoted in no. 2448). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v (Viperanus Jo. de rege et Regno, in 8⁰, A⁰ -, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 1½). |
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