| Record ID | cp010340 |
| Voet reference number | 2419A |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | MODESTUS (JULIUS MODESTUS) |
| Title page transcription | FLAVI VEGETI REN. V. INL. ‖ DE RE MILITARI ‖ LIBRI QVATVOR; ‖ POST OMNES OMNIVM EDITIONES ‖ ope veterum librorum correcti, ‖ A ‖ GODESCALCO STEWECHIO HEVSDANO. ‖ Accesserunt SEX. IVLI FRONTINI Strategematôn libri quatuor; ‖ In eosdem FRANCISCI MODII Notæ, & G. STEWECHI Con- ‖ iectanea: ÆLIANVS De instruendis aciebus: MODESTVS De vo- ‖ cabulis rei militaris: Castrametatio Rom. ex historiis POLYBII, La- ‖ tinitate donata à Iano Lascari, &c. ‖ Accessit seorsum eiusdem G. STEWECHI ‖ in Fl. Vegetium Commentarius. ‖ ⊕ 40 ‖ LVGDVNI BATAVORVM, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXXXV. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [164]: †⁶, A-Z⁴, a-g⁴, h⁶, i-l⁴, m; pages [1-12], 1-248, [1-4], 249-276 (Errors: 1st part: 20 not numbered, 100 for 200, 231 for 226, 223 for 231) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Ioan. Matalius Metellus Sequanus I.C. (italic type, parts in roman type) [3-10]: Serenissimo…principi Carolo, Calabriae, Lotharingiae, Barri, ac Geldriae duci, etc. (Pont-à-Mousson, 1584, signed by Godescalcus Stewechius) [11-12]: Ad lectorem (italic type, parts in roman type) [12]: Fragmenta Flavi Vegeti; Table (italic type, words in roman type) 1-248: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [1]: MODESTI ‖ DE VOCABVLIS ‖ REI MILITARIS ‖ LIBELLVS, ‖ AD ‖ TACITVM ‖ AVGVSTVM. ‖ ⊕ 40 ‖ LVGDVNI BATAVORVM, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXXXV [2]: Blank [3-4]: Nobiliss…. Ioan. Guilielmo a Spangen, d. in Spangen, Boudry etc. et Walrando ab Haeften, d. in Haeften, Herwiinen, etc. Godescalcus Stewechius S.D. (20 January 1584; italic type, part in roman type) 249-276: Text (marginals in roman type and italic type) |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Leiden University Libraries. |
| Bibliographical references | See following no |
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| Note 1 | The texts of some Roman authors on the Roman military system and methods, edited by Godescalcus Stewechius (including some notes on Sextus Julius Frontinus by Stewechius's friend Franciscus Modius): a) Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor (pages 1-97); b) Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategematicon libri IV (pages 98-196; followed by Loca aliquot a Francisco Modio Brug[ensi] in Sexto Iulio Frontino obiter notata, pages 197-204); c) Aelianus, De instruendis aciebus opus, ad divum Hadrianum, a Theodoro Thessalonicense Latinum factum, et Antonio Panormitae Alphonsi regis praeceptori dicatum (pages 205-248); d) (with special title-page:) Modestus, De vocabulis rei militaris, ad Tacitum Augustum, libellus (pages 249-258); e) Castrametatio Rom. ex Polybii lib. VI. Historiarum. Versa olim e Graeco ab A. Iano Lascari (pages 259-276). |
| Note 2 | A completory volume was constituted by the illustrated commentaries of Stewechius on Flavius Vegetius and Sextus Julius Frontinus (see no. cp012466). Presented as a separate volume, but both forming in fact one publication, and the two volumes normally sold together. The commentaries are, moreover, announced on the title-page of the text-edition. |
| Note 3 | Printed in Leiden, but a number of copies received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp imprint. In fact, Stewechius, in his letter of 1 August 1584 quoted below, insists to have only the Antwerp address figuring on the title-pages (living in a Catholic part of France he must not have liked the prospect to see his name on a book with the imprint of Leiden, the great Calvinist cultural bulwark). For some reasons, Plantin did print copies with a Leiden imprint. However, as most of the copies actually known have the Antwerp address, it is safe to admit that only a limited number of copies received a title-page with the Leiden imprint - perhaps because Plantin, working in Leiden, was virtually obliged to do so. |
| Note 4 | Stewechius's sources (manuscripts and printed editions) are detailed in the commentaries on page [8] (see no. cp012466). |
| Note 5 | The editor made the publication possible by advancing Plantin a sum of 100 florins Carolus guilders 17 stuivers, to be returned when the edition should have been sold out. Plantin signed the IOU in Leiden on 14 July 1583: 'Je Christophle Plantin cognois et confesse avoir receu de Monsieur Godschalck Steewechs quatorze doubles ducats d'Espagne et ung escu au soleil pour aide de l'impression de Vegece avec ses Commentaires et figures, lesquels 14 doubles ducats et l'escu au soleil je luy promects rendre ou la valeur desdictes pieces qui est cent florins et dix sept patarts tout incontinent que les exemplaires dudict livre seront vendus. Que s'il plaist audict Signeur prendre cependant desdicts livres je luy promets de luy en delivrer pour ladicte somme au prix qu'ils se vendront aux libraires…' (Corr., VII, no. 1002). |
| Note 6 | In an interesting letter, dated Pont-à-Mousson, 1 August 1584, Stewechius, having included out of security once again his 'praefationes' (which he already sent with his letters of 6 and 18 July), details at length his instructions regarding the printing: after the title-page of the Vegetius, on the verso-side, have to be reproduced the verses by J. Metellus ('which you have already received at this time'). Then has to follow the first 'praefatio ad Principem Lotharingiae' and the note to the reader. For the commentaries he likes to have a new title-page, on the verso-side of which should figure his portrait; to be followed by the second 'praefatio…ad Comitem Salmensem' and the [second] note to the reader. Thereafter could come the 'carmina amicorum', already received by Plantin, and eventually others sent by friends directly to Plantin in the absence of Stewechius. No problems should arise regarding the poems already forwarded by Stewechius (namely of Rolandius, Schuermannius, and Estius), which Plantin could print in the order he thought best. Of the others, eventually sent through other channels than the editor, the judgement was left to the typographer. Anyway, Gerardus Dalanthus, physician and 'civis meus', has promised one [but he did not forward a poem: the only ones reproduced in the volume are those of Rolandius, Schuermannius, and Esthius]. The third 'praefatio' has to accompany the 'Conjectanea' on Frontinus, which should receive its own title-page. The 'praefatio ad Julium Strozzam', sent previously, may be omitted. The fourth 'praefatiuncula', which had to precede the 'Stemmata Valentinianorum', may likewise be deleted. The editor asks moreover with great emphasis to have only the Antwerp imprint used ('Superest aliud, quod te rogo, obsecro, libris hisco non aliud nomen, quam civitatis Antverpiensis, non Lugdunensis adhiberi cures, in quo videbo, quantum me ames'; cf., however, the remark above: Plantin did print a few copies with the Leiden imprint). He continues with remarks about indices and errata: 'De indicibus diligenter conficiendis curabo, scio. Velim tamen in peculiarem indicem redigi locos illos, quos in Jure, aut aliis scriptoribus passim hoc Commentario meo emendare conatus sum, vel puer tuus hoc praestiterit, margine libro inspecto, et percurso. Quae nuper ad te in litteris notatam mutanda vel augenda in Commentario, ea velim, saltim brevissime, corrector tuus inter errata operarum adscriberet; quod nullo negotio fieri possit, praesertim si quae sit menda notabilis; aut si id ita illi visum erit, trium, aut quatuor linearum praefatiuncula, quasi mea, additiunculas illos inter errata meo nomine adscribat'. To conclude, Stewechius asks, as he had already specified in his previous letters, to forward at the next Frankfurt Fair 25 copies of the Vegetius and 25 of the commentaries to Lotharingian merchants [who would have to give them to Stewechius at Pont-à-Mousson] (Corr., VII, no. 1024). These instructions Plantin followed quite closely. |
| Note 7 | 'Vegetius de re militari cum commentis Godescalci Stewechi, in 4⁰' figures in the list of books printed by Plantin in Leiden, a copy of which he presented to the Leiden magistrate on 2 January 1585 (this copy lost; cf. E. Hulshoff Pol, 'Boucken op 't secreet. Plantijndrukken op het raadhuis te Leiden' in Leids Jaarboekje, 1972, page 91). This means that in fact the edition must have been completed in 1584. |
| Note 8 | The work (the edition proper and Stewechius's comments, including the illustrations) was reprinted in 8⁰ in the Officina Plantiniana Francisci Raphelengii in Leiden in 1592 (a copy in Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 1423). |
| Note 9 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v (Vegetius Fl. ex castigatione Godscal. Stewechii, in 4⁰, f[euilles] 93, [price:] stuivers 30), and M 321. |
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