| Record ID | cp010274 |
| Voet reference number | 1001 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | CLEYNAERTS) CLENARDUS (CLEYNARTS |
| Title page transcription | MEDITATIONES ‖ GRAECANICAE IN ‖ ARTEM GRAMMATICAM, ‖ * ‖ In eorum gratiam, qui viua præceptoris voce ‖ destituuntur, & litteras Græcas suo ipsi ductu ‖ discere coguntur, ‖ NICOLAO CLENARDO ‖ AVCTORE. ‖ ⊕ 12 ‖ . ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXIIII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: a-h⁸; pages 1-126, [127-128] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Humanissimo simulque doctissimo viro Iacobo Cantae, reverendiss. D. cardinalis Campegii summo cubiculario, Nicolaus Clenardus S.P.D. (Louvain, 20 June 1531) 3-126: Text (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) 126: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS, ‖ M.D. LXIIII. III. IVLII [127-128]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Bibliothèques de l'UMONS - 4239/54 L 11117Biblioteca Nacional de PortugalIn both copies the Annotationes Renati Guilloni are missing |
| Bibliographical references | Chauvin-Roersch, page 200 Not in Ruelens-de Backer. |
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| Note 1 | Treatise on Greek grammar, especially for students deprived of oral teaching. It is centered on the epistle of St. Basilius to St. Gregorius Nazianzenus on life in solitude (in Greek), with the Latin interpretation by Budé, and a word-to-word translation by Clenardus, acompanied by a great number of notes and remarks (cf. Chauvin-Roersch, pages 64-67). The editio princeps appeared at Louvain, Bartholomeus Gravius and Rutgerus Rescius, 1531 (Ibidem, pages 64-65). It met the same success as the Institutiones: Chauvin-Roersch, pages 187 ff., lists between 1531 and 1564 18 separate editions and 10 editions in which it is joined to the Institutiones, published at Louvain, Paris, Lyons, Venice, Antwerp, Geneva, Cologne. Plantin's edition must be a reprint of one of these editions. |
| Note 2 | Plantin had very likely in 1562 the idea of bringing the Institutiones and the Meditationes in one book. Owing to the tribulations with the Institutiones (cf. no. 997, he finally published it as a separate edition. |
| Note 3 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 65 verso, gives the following details about 'Meditationes in Gram[maticam] Graec[am] Clenardi': the wages for composing and printing quires A-H are entered on 18 June and 1 July 1564, for a total of 15 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers; 21 reams of paper 'carillon' were used, which cost 1 florins Carolus guilders per ream [meaning an expense of 21 florins Carolus guilders]. This entry is followed by 'Annotationes in Gram[maticam] Graeca [m] Clenardi': the costs for printing quires A-D are entered on 21 October and 4 November 1564, for a total of 5 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers (including an unspecified sum for 'la copie', meaning probably a copy of a printed text of the Annotationes); 11 reams of paper 'carillon' were used, which cost 1 florins Carolus guilders per ream [meaning an expense of 11 florins Carolus guilders]. The number of reams used indicates that, taking into account the 'imperfections', some 1,250 copies of each of the two parts were printed. |
| Note 4 | According to the colophon the printing of the Meditationes proper was finished on 3 July 1564. |
| Note 5 | The Annotationes in Grammaticam Graecam Clenardi in the cost-accounting note are to be identified with the Annotationes Renati Guillonii in Grammaticam Graecam Clenardi which appear in Plantin's 1566-edition of the Meditationes but was from 1572 onwards included in the Institutiones. In the two known copies of Plantin's 1564 Meditationes-edition this part is missing (in the Bibliothèques de l'UMONS-copy figures instead the 1543-edition of the Annotationes Guillonii by Joannes Steelsius, Antwerp). It is not excluded, however, that the Annotationes printed in 1564 has in fact not been used for the 1564-edition of the Meditationes but has been reserved for and included in the 1566-edition of the Meditationes (see cp013364). |
| Note 6 | On René Guillon and his annotations on Clenardus's Greek Grammar: see Chauvin-Roersch, pages 91-92 (they appear for the first time in the edition of the Institutiones, Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1542). |
| Note 7 | The publishers Guilielmus Silvius, Antwerp, and Maternus Cholinus. Cologne, took rather large numbers of Copies: the former 300 copies on 3 August 1564 (Arch. 39, folio 61 recto), the latter 50 copies on 29 August 1564 (at 1¼ stuivers per copy: 3 florins Carolus guilders 2½ stuivers: Arch. 39, folio 100 recto). |
| Note 8 | Listed in M 296, and M 164 ? See cp012294. |
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