Record ID | cp010332 |
Voet reference number | 27 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132821 |
Author | Andreas ALCIATUS (ALCIATI) |
Title page transcription | [Within woodcut frame:] OMNIA ‖ ANDREÆ ‖ ALCIATI V.C. ‖ EMBLEMATA: ‖ CVM COMMENTARIIS, QVIBVS ‖ Emblematum omnium aperta origine, mens ‖ auctoris explicatur, & obscura omnia du- ‖ biaque illustrantur: ‖ PER CLAVDIVM MINOEM ‖ Diuionensem. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
Collation | 8⁰ [128]: A-Z⁸, a-z⁸; pages 1-732, [733-736] (Errors: 23 for 237, 609? for 605, 622 for 632) |
Fingerprint | 157708 - # b1 A2 turum$ : # b2 z5 prof^157708 - # 1b1 A2 turum$ : 1b2 Z5 $flect - # 2b1 a è : # 2b2 z5 prof |
Number of sheets | 46 |
Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (s. I. Fabri) 3-8: Reverendo in Christo patri ac D.D. Annae, coenobii Benigniani ac Pulteriarum meritiss. antistiti, Claudius Minos signed by (Paris, 1 December 1571; italic type) 9-15: Poems by Nicolaus Gulonius (in greek type), P. Pinellus (Latin translation of preceding poem), Claudius Paetius, Ioannes Buchaerus, Robertus Widius, Franciscus Iuretus (roman type and italic type) 16-28: Claudius Minos Divionensis, lectori…(part in italic type, Greek words) 29-43: Syntagma de symbolis…(parts in italic type and greek type) 44-46: Clariss. viri Andr. Alciati in librum emblematum praefatio ad Chonradum Peutingerum Augustanum (parts in italic type, words in greek type) 47-671: Text (parts and marginals in italic type and greek type) 672-685: Epigrammatum Graecorum…explicatio ad verbum…(italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) 686-712: Indices (on two columns; words in greek type) 713-732: Ad Alciati emblemata laudatio, vice praefationis ad emblematum explanationem (Paris, 23 April 1576; parts in italic type, words in greek type) [733]: Blank [734]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS ARCHI- ‖ TYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ANNI ‖ M.D.LXXVII. MENSE IVLIO [735-736]: Blank |
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Illustrations | Woodcuts: 1) 197 illustrations, 58 × 58 (196 wood-blocks: emblems 61 and 62 illustrated with the same wood-block), ornating the emblems and printed within a border of typographical fleurons; some with the monogram of the woodcutter A. Nicolai (emblems nos. 1, 4, 6, 21, 22) 2) 14 illustrations, c. 130 × c. 80, with reproductions of trees, ornating the emblems of the section devoted to the trees. All these wood-blocks preserved in Museum Plantin-Moretus |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - R 55.29University of Aberdeen Library - Aberdeen (Great Britain)Staats- und Stadtbibliothek AugsburgBonn University and State Library - Bonn (Germany, BRD)Major Seminary Ten Duinen BrugesKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgePublic Library of Inguimbertine - Carpentras (France, dép. Vaucluse)FrankfurtUniversity Library Gotha Research Library - Gotha (Germany, BDR)Heidelberg University LibraryBritish Library LondonHonourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBibliothèque site de Montauban - MontaubanBayerische StaatsbibliothekUniversity Library ParisStuttgartAustrian National Library. Green also mentions copies in Aarau and Siena |
Bibliographical references | Green, H. Andrea Alciati and his Books of Emblems, no. 93 Duplessis, G. Les livres à gravures du XVIe siècle. Les Emblèmes d'Alciat, no. 80 Landwehr, J. Emblem-Books in the Low Countries, 1554-1949, no. 13 Not in Ruelens-de BackerCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, nr. 66 Landwehr, J. Emblem & fable books (3rd ed.), nr. 17 Claude Sorgeloos, Labore et constantia. A collection of 510 editions issued by Christopher Plantin from 1555 till 1589. Introduction by Leon Voet. Bruss |
Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12919788 |
Note 1 | Revised edition: Mignaut has partially rewritten his comments (and in this process the Supplementa of the 1573-edition were incorporated into the text or re-arranged). The dedicatory to the Abbot of St. Benigne, dated 1571, remains, but Plantin's letter, dated 1573, has been dropped. Some poems in honour of Mignaut and his work have been added, together with a translation and explanation of the Greek sentences and verses used in the comments, and the text of a lecture on Alciatus's work, given by Mignaut, on 23 April 1576, at Paris, in the 'Regia Burgondionum Schola'. The chapter on the emblems and their meaning has also been rewritten and largely expanded. |
Note 2 | The woodcuts illustrating the emblems now number 196; emblems 61 and 62 are illustrated with the same block. All these blocks are of larger dimensions than the ones in the previous editions, and were, consequently, cut especially for this publication (On 15 November 1575 Gerard Janssen van Kampen was paid 12 florins Carolus guilders for cutting 20 'fig[ures] Alc[iat]': Arch. 31, folio 77r). The section on the trees is now also illustrated with the reproduction of 14 trees. |
Note 3 | Mignaut wrote Plantin on 27 July 1576 a letter on the subject: 'je suis bien content d'attendre jusques au terme, qu'il vous plait donner, d'imprimer le commentaire sur les Emblemes d'Alciat a ce que les figures nouvelles y soient mises telles qu'il vous a pleu les desseigner…'. He mailed a copy of an emblem-book printed in Paris 'affin-que voz ouvriers voyent et remarquent toutes les figures, nonobstant que j'aye opinion que les pouvez desja avoir. Je ne fay point de double que celles que ferez tailler ne soient plus-belles'. He added in postscriptum 'Je ne vous puis exprimer par parolles combien il y a de gens icy en nostre université qui attendent ce petit livre avec grande devotion: vous asseurant bien que je suis contraint de dire a plusieurs qui le demandent, qu'il est desja sur la presse' (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 733). The political troubles in the Netherlands did however postpone the printing, as Plantin told Arias Montanus on 3 May 1577 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 757, page 236: 'Hieronymus quiescit donec…[together with other works enumerated] Emblemata Alciati in 8⁰ cum Commentariis Minois…quae diu ante cladem Antverpiensem fuerant inchoata, fuerint absoluta…'). In the colophon of the work it is stated that the edition was, actually, finished in July 1577. A copy reached Nuremberg in October 1577 (letter of Plantin to Camerarius, 8-19 November 1577: Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 780). |
Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 5 verso (Eadem [Emblemata Alciati] in 8⁰ cum c[ommen] t[ari] o Minois a⁰ 1577, [price:] stuivers 10), and M 164, folio 10 verso. |
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