Record ID | cp010334 |
Voet reference number | 2214 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
Author | Jacobus SIMANCA |
Title page transcription | IACOBI ‖ SIMANCÆ ‖ PACENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ IVRECONSVLTI, DE ‖ Episcopis iuris peritis, ‖ opusculum. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXIIII. |
Collation | 16mo [86]: A-B⁸, C⁴; pages 1-36, [37-40] |
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Number of sheets | |
Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 13 November 1573, signed by I. De Witte) 3-36: Text [37-38]: Approbationes (Antwerp, 29 November 1573, s. B. Arias Montanus; Sebastianus Baer Delphius, Antwerp; Franciscus Sonnius, Antwerp) [39-40]: Blank |
Edition information | |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- Arch. 1228, folio 68r: only title-pageBiblioteca Nacional de España- R. 30481 [3] |
Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer and Palau y Dulcet |
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Note 1 | Treatise defending the divine rights of the bishops against the heretics. The text starts with the statement that some years ago Simanca had written this work against 'temerarios qui contra usum…Ecclesiae Catholicae et contra Concilium Tridentinum dixerunt et scripserunt iuris pontifici peritos, quanvis boni viri, docti et prudentes sint, episcopi tamen esse non posse…'. |
Note 2 | This publication seems to be the editio princeps (and only edition issued). |
Note 3 | The costs for printing 1,250 copies 'De Episcopis per Simancam', amounting to 11 florins Carolus guilders 11 stuivers (= 1¼ sheet per copy, making 3 reams 17 'mains', and counted [for paper and printing] at 3 florins Carolus guilders per ream) were noted on the account of Arias Montanus on 31 December 1574 (Arch. 52, folio 205r). |
Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 9v (Jacobi Simancȩ de episcopis jurisperitis opusculum, 16⁰, A⁰ [15] 74, f[euilles] 1¼, [price:] stuivers ½) and folio 17v. |
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