Record ID | cp010202 |
Voet reference number | 1959 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:632619 |
Author | HILARIUS OF POITIERS |
Title page transcription | PONTII PAVLINI ‖ BVRDIGALENSIS ‖ POEMATA. ‖ PROSPERI TIRONIS AQVITANI- ‖ CI EPIGRAMMATON LIB. I. ‖ DE PROVIDENTIA DEI LIB. I. ‖ DE INGRATIS LIB. I. ‖ ET ‖ S. HILARII IN GENESIM AD ‖ Leonem Papam Carmen. ‖ ⊕ 8 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ Anno 1560. |
Collation | 16mo [91]: A-T⁸; folios 1r-152v |
Fingerprint | 156016 - # b1 A2 $&$do : # b2 T4 orta |
Number of sheets | |
Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Blank [2r-v]: Theodorus Poelmannus Cranenburgensis D. Petro Mego, monialium collegii Falconis Antverpiae praefecto. signed by (Antwerp, 1560; italic type) 3r-95v: Text of Paulinus (marginals in italic type) 96r: PROSPERI TIRO- ‖ NIS AQVITANICI ‖ EPIGRAMMATON ‖ LIBER I. ‖ DE PROVIDENTIA DEI LIB. I. ‖ DE INGRATIS LIB. I. ‖ ⊕ 8 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ Anno 1560 96v: Incerti auctoris ad lectorem epigramma (marginals in italic type) 97r-145r: Text of Prosperus (114r: Incerti auctoris ad lectorem de Prospero carmen; 114v: Andreae oratoris de Maria Virgine ad Rusticianam carmen; marginals in italic type, word in greek type) 145v: Blank 146r-148v: Sancti Hilarii Pictaviensis episcopi in Genesim ad Leonem papam, carmen (marginal in italic type) 149r-152r: Venantii Honorii Fortunati hymni III, et elegia I (marginals in italic type) 152v: Blank |
Edition information | |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 530Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library London |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 23 (1560, no. 5)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 3948 Adams P-483 |
Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12919959USTC 404347 |
Note 1 | Publication of works of four Christian authors of the early Middle Ages, edited by Theodorus Pulmannus: a) Pontius Paulinus: folios 3r-95v (Epistolarum liber: 3r-29v; Panegyricus in obitum Celsi; 29v-39r: Natalis Felicis: 39r-83v; In Nicetae abitum: 83v-88v; Precatio matutina ad omnipotentem Deum: 88v-89v; Psalmi: 89v-92r; Epigrammata, ex ipsius ad Severum epistola duodecima descripta: 92r-95v); b) Prosperus Tiro: folios 97r-145r (Ex sententiis Sancti Augustini epigrammaton liber: 97r-114r; De providentia divina liber: 115r-129r; Epigrammata: 129r-130r; De ingratis contra Pelagianos liber: 130v-145r). In the edition of the works of Prosperus two short pieces by other authors: Incerti auctoris ad lectorem de Prospero carmen [114r] and Andreae oratoris de Maria Virgine ad Rusticianam carmen [114v]); c) Sanctus Hilarius, bishop of Poitiers: In Genesim, ad Leonem papam, carmen (146r-148v); d) Venantius Honoratus Fortunatus: Hymni III et elegia I (149r-152r). |
Note 2 | In the dedicatory to Megus, Pulmannus explains that, regarding the text of Paulinus, Bonaventura Vulcanius had been working on it, using an 'old manuscript', but as he suddenly left for Spain, leaving the edition unfinished, Pulmannus took over ('Huic malo uti aliqua ex parte occurreretur, operam nostram, quantam potuimus, in corrigendis Paulini poëmatis impendimus: quae tibi amicitiae ergo dedicamus: partim Bonaventurae Vulcanii adolescentis felicissimae indolis diligentia ad vetusti codicis fidem multis in locis restituta: partim meo studio emaculata, quod ea, ob subitam suam in Hispanias profectionem absolvere non potuerat. Utinam ipse his summum fastigium imposuisset, haberemus procul dubio nunc emendatissima'). Pulmannus continues that to Paulinus he added Prosperus Tiro, the text of whom he had been able to correct thanks to 'old books' forwarded to him by Cornelius Gualtherus ('Paulino huic, Prosperum Tironem adieci, quem ab erratis quam plurimis ope antiquorum librorum repurgavi, quos mihi Cornelius Gualtherus vir inprimis pius, et doctus benigne commodavit.'). Nothing is said about the other texts. |
Note 3 | One of the manuscripts used by Pulmannus for the text of Prosperus is preserved in Museum Plantin-Moretus (M. 17. 4; cf. Denucé, Catalogue des manuscrits, no. 176, pages 136-137). |
Note 4 | On 12 March 1560 were shipped to Paris 24 'poëmata Paulini 24⁰ [= an error for 16⁰]' (Arch. 35, folio 110). |
Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 14v (Paulini Poemata in 16⁰, f[euilles] 9½, [price:] stuivers 1½. A⁰ 1560). |
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