| Record ID | cp010271 |
| Voet reference number | 1753 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:476184 |
| Author | NONNUS PANOPOLITUS |
| Title page transcription | ΝΟΝΝΟΥ ‖ ΠΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ‖ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΑΚΑ. ‖ NONNI PANOPOLITAE ‖ DIONYSIACA, ‖ NVNC PRIMVM IN LVCEM EDITA, ‖ EX ‖ Bibliotheca Ioannis Sambuci Pannonij. ‖ CVM lectionibus, & coniecturis Gerarti Falkenburgij ‖ Nouiomagi, & Indice copioso. ‖ ⊕ 14 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ CIƆ IƆ LXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [162]: †⁸, ††⁴, A-Ω⁸, α-ω⁸, Aα-Θϑ⁸, Ii⁵, Kk3-[4]-5, Kk⁴; pages [1-24], 1-899, [900-920] (Errors: 3 not numbered, 64 for 63, 21 for 213, 213 for 223, 358 for 338, 469 for 496, 528 for 526, 525 for 527, 58 for 583, 67 for 679, 861-862-863-864 not numbered, 92 for 892) |
| Fingerprint | 156904 - # a1 +2 è,$ : # a2 2+3 $α&ro;π - # b1 A u : # b2 2K2 $ |
| Number of sheets | 118 |
| Pages | [1]: Title[2]: Angelus Politianus in Nutritiis (three line Latin poem in italic type, and two line Greek poem)[3-6]: Gerardus Falkenburgius Noviomagus Ioanni Sambuco Pannonio S.D. (Antwerp, 22 February 1569; part in greek type, marginals in italic type and greek type)[17-19]: Two poems by Ioannes Goropius Becanus to Sambucus and on the edition (italic type)[20]: In Nonnum Gul. Canterus (italic type); Greek poem by Gerartus Falkenburgius[21-24]: Proemium (greek type)1-860: Text (greek type)[861-862]: Gerartus Falkenburgius Noviomagus lectori (italic type)[863]-899:…in Nonni Dionysiaca lectiones et coniecturae (on two columns; greek type, parts in roman type and italic type)[900]: Note of G. Falkenburgius on his ‘lectiones’ and ‘coniecturae’[901]: C. Plantinus lectori (italic type)[901-902]: Gulielmi Canteri emendationes (on three columns; greek type)[903-918]: Index (on three columns; parts in greek type)[918]: Errata (roman type and greek type); approbation (19 February 1569, signed by Cunerus Petri a Brouwershaven, Louvain); Privilege (Brussels, 10 March 1568, s. Facvvez)[919]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, s. Haller)[920]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 25.15- R 15.12- A 13873KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonBibliothèque nationale de FranceUtrecht University LibraryUNamur- R6A.0497 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 93-94 (1569, no. 18)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, nr. 2227 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7083563 |
| Note 1 | Poem describing the triumphal progress of Dionysius to India; valuable for mythological learning. |
| Note 2 | Greek text edited by Gerardus Falkenburgius, from a manuscript belonging to the Hungarian humanist, Joannes Sambucus. In the note to the reader, on page [862], Falkenburgius thanks Sambucus for having forwarded the manuscript, specifying that it was the copy used previously by Arsenius, ‘Monembasiae episcopus’, and that it had been bought at Tarente for 45 gold-pieces. In the dedicatory to Sambucus the editor tries to outline a biography of Nonnus and gives some interesting details on research-work done by other scholars on Nonnus and his treatise. |
| Note 3 | The publication contains a long list of ‘lectiones and emendationes’ by G. Falkenburgius (pages [863] -899), but, as Plantin explains in the note to the reader on page [901], just after the printing was finished, he received some amendments on Nonnus made by Gulielmus Canterus, which seemed to confirm a number of Falkenburgius’s conjectures and which, consequently, he deemed interesting enough to include in the publication (pages [901-902]). |
| Note 4 | Plantin received the manuscript as early as the beginning of 1568 (letter to Granvelle, 26 March 1568 [Corr., III, no. 355]: ‘J’ay receu Dionysiaca Nonni que m’a envoyé Mr. Sambucus pour l’imprimer et quelques autres livres grecs aussi’). It is not very clear if it was Sambucus’s intention to have the manuscript edited by Falkenburgius, or that, having received it, Plantin looked around for a competent scholar willing to do the job. On 18 September 1568 Plantin could tell Camerarius that he had the work on his presses (Suppl. Corr., no. 74). The printing was finished before March 1569, as between 26 March and 3 April Plantin wrote to Fulvius Ursinus: ‘Dionysiaca Nonni Graeca, alienis sumptibus adjutus (mirum etenim quantum his temporibus nostrae frigeant tabernae) impressi’ (Corr., II, no. 170). Cf. also Corr., II, no. 177 (letter to F. Ursinus, 18 June 1569: he promises to mail a copy to the Roman scholar) and no. 213 (letter to A. Francquart, vicar of the Archbishop of Cambrai, 23 February 1570: ‘Nonni Dionysiaca graece’ included in a list of books printed by the Plantin Press). |
| Note 5 | The Dyonisiaca in Plantin’s 1569-edition inspired Jean Dorat for the decoration of the banqueting hall at the reception of the wife of King Charles IX of France at Paris in 1571 (cf. F.A. Yates, ‘Poètes et artistes dans les entrées de Charles IX et de sa reine à Paris en 1571’ in Les Fêtes de la Renaissance, I, Paris, 1956, pages 67-82). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 12v (Nonni Dyonisiaca grȩce, in 4⁰, a⁰ —, f[euilles] —, [price:] stuivers 30). |
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