| Record ID | cp010275 |
| Voet reference number | 66 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | ANTONIO OF PORTUGAL |
| Title page transcription | [Typographical V.] ‖ THE EXPLANATION. ‖ OF THE TRVE AND ‖ LAVVFVLL RIGHT AND TYTLE, ‖ OF THE MOSTE EXCELLENT PRINCE, ‖ ANTHONIE the first of that name, ‖ King of Portugall, ‖ concerning his warres, againste Phillip King of Castile, and ‖ against his Subiectes and adherentes, for the recouerie of his kingdome. ‖ TOGETHER VVITH A BRIEFE HI- ‖ storye of all that hath passed aboute that matter, vntill the ‖ yeare of our LORD. 1583. ‖ Translated into English and conferred with the ‖ French and Latine Copies. ‖ [Typographical V.] ‖ By the commaundement and order of the Superiors. ‖ At Leyden ‖ In the Printing house ‖ of Christopher Plantyn. ‖ 1585. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [152]: [Aⁱ], A-G⁴; pages [1-2], 1-55, [56] |
| Fingerprint | |
| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Delft, 15 January 1585, signed by I. Van Langen) 1-55: Text (parts in italic type) [56]: Blank. On folding sheet hors texte (175 × 290): Genealogy of Emmanuel I, King of Portugal |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | British Library London - 1451. e. 24 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 288 (1585, Leiden, no. 11) See also Notes |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Falsely attributed to the Plantin Press: English translation made (by Claude Desainliens alias Hollyband, the schoolmaster) and printed in London (by Thomas Purfoot), but reproducing Plantin's Leiden imprint. Cf. E.M. Tenison, Elizabethan England, IV, 1933, pages 24-25, 39-44 (with reproduction of the title-page); R. Breugelmans, 'Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Christophori Plantini. A checklist of Plantin's Leiden imprints, 1583-1586' in Quaerendo, 5, 1975, page 94. |
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