Record ID | cp010318 |
Voet reference number | 1839 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1100671 c:lvd:667454 |
Author | HORTA) ORTO (ORTA; HORTO |
Title page transcription | AROMATVM, ‖ ET ‖ SIMPLICIVM ALIQVOT ‖ MEDICAMENTORVM APVD ‖ INDOS NASCENTIVM ‖ HISTORIA: ‖ Primùm quidem Lusitanica lingua per Dialogos ‖ conscripta, D. GARCIA AB HORTO, Pro- ‖ regis Indiæ Medico, auctore. ‖ Nunc verò Latino sermone in Epitomen contracta, & ico- ‖ nibus ad viuum expressis, locupletioribusq̓ annotatiun- ‖ culis illustrata à CAROLO CLVSIO Atrebate. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ CIƆ. IƆ. LXXIIII. |
Collation | 8⁰ [128]: A-O⁸, P⁴; pages 1-227, [228-232] |
Fingerprint | 157408 - # b1 A2 m$a : b2 P3 hircu |
Number of sheets | 14.50 |
Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (s. I. de Witte) 34: Benevolo lectori 4: Poem by Ioan. Posthius Germ. medic. (italic type) 5-227: Text (italic type, parts and marginals in roman type) 227-[232]: Index (on three columns) |
Edition information | |
Illustrations | Woodcuts: 27 illustrations of varying dimensions representing plants of India 16 of these illustrations (on pages 31, 37, 59, 80, 88, 92, 97, 103, 125, 126, 136, 144, 167, 204, 205, 206) figured already in the 1567-edition 11 are new (on pages 86, 99, 107, 114, 116, 129, 133, 140, 159, 214, 215) |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1732Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaVatican Apolstolic Library.UNamur- R16A0691- R6A.0504- Rés.17F.9 |
Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 1556 Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 1732 |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 154 (1574, no. 41) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), IV, pages 578-579 Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), no. 949 Palau y Dulcet, 6, page 106, no. 99516Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 2275 |
Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12921849USTC 401628 |
Note 1 | Reprint, with some changes, of the 1567-edition. The dedicatory to Jacobus Fuggerus has been deleted, the note to the reader adapted, a poem by J. Posthius added. Some stylistical alterations in the Latin text and some larger changes in chapters 22 and 28 of the 2nd book are to be noted, while some annotations of Clusius himself have been modified or enlarged. For a detailed survey of the differences between the two editions, and the enumeration of the illustrations added to the 1574-publication: BB, IV, pages 578-579. |
Note 2 | Listed in M 296, folio 1r ([Aromatum historia Gar. ab Horto] Idem a⁰ 1574 page Clusium Aucta, f[euilles] 14½, [price:] stuivers 4½), and M 164, folio 1r. |
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