| Record ID | cp010367 |
| Voet reference number | 1099 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Rembertus DODONAEUS (DODOENS) |
| Title page transcription | PVRGANTIVM ‖ ALIARVMQVE EO ‖ FACIENTIVM, TVM ET ‖ Radicum, Conuoluulorum ‖ ac deletariarum herba- ‖ rum historiæ ‖ LIBRI IIII. ‖ REMBERTO DODONÆO Mechli- ‖ niensi Medico auctore. ‖ ACCESSIT Appendix variarū & quidem rarissimarum ‖ nonnullarum stirpium, ac florum quorundam peregrinorum, ‖ elegantissimorumq' icones omnino nouas nec anteà editas, ‖ singulorumq' breues descriptiones continens: cuius altera parte ‖ vmbelliferæ exhibentur non paucæ, eodem Auctore. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D. LXXIIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: A-Z⁸, a-i⁸; pages 1-505, [506-512] |
| Fingerprint | 157408 - # b1 A2 rgi : # b2 i3 co |
| Number of sheets | 32 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, Privy Council, 30 July 1572, signed by De la Torre, and Council of Brabant, 12 September 1572, s. I. de Witte) 3-8: Maximo…D. Philippo, Hispaniar. catholico regi (s. Remb. Dodonaeus; Malines, 13 November 1572) 9-376: Text (italic type, parts in roman type, greek type and Go, marginals in roman type) [377]: APPENDIX ‖ VARIARVM ET ‖ QVIDEM RARISSIMARVM ‖ NONNVLLARVM STIRPIVM AC ‖ Florum quorundam peregrinorum elegātissi- ‖ morumq̓ue, & icones omnino nouas nec anteà ‖ editas, & singulorum breues descriptiones con- ‖ tinens: cuius altera parte vmbelliferæ multæ ‖ exhibentur. ‖ REMB. DODONÆO MEDICO ‖ AVCTORE . ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXIIII 378-381: Remberti Dodonaei in appendicem ad lectores praefatio (Malines, 1571) 382-505: Text (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type, marginals in roman type) [506]: approbation (Brussels, 10 July 1572, s. Gislenus de Vroede); Errata (words in greek type) [507-511]: Indices (roman type and greek type) [512]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 221 woodcuts representing plants, mostly c. 135 × c. 75 (some 5 in a smaller format). See Notes 2 and 3 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 630KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryKB National Library of the NetherlandsBritish Library LondonPostel AbbeyVatican Apolstolic Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 153-154 (1574, no. 39) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), II, pages 214-216 Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), II, page 49, no. 515.Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 961 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7038568USTC 401609 |
| Note 1 | The four books of the edition proper (pages 9-376) are devoted to the description of plants with purgative properties, of plants of which the roots are used in medicine, of climbing-plants, and of poisonous plants; with 140 illustrations. The Appendix (pages 377-505) is divided into two parts. In the first, with 33 chapters and 64 illustrations (pages 382-475), the description is given of a number of plants having a place in the two editions formerly published by Dodonaeus, Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum…historia, 1566 and 1569, and Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, 1568 and 1569. The first part forms in fact a kind of appendix to those publications. The second part, with 15 chapters and 17 illustrations (pages 476-505), gives the description of some umbellifers. In the introduction to the Appendix, dated Malines, 1571, Dodonaeus explains that a number of these plants were introduced to him by other scholars or amateurs, citing by name: Joannes Brancio; Alfonsus Pancius, physician to the Duke of Ferrara; Joannes Boisot of Brussels; Petrus Coudebergius, chemist at Antwerp; Georgius Rhetius; Raphael Coxia. |
| Note 2 | Of the 221 illustrations 39 are also reproduced in Clusius, Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, 1576. In fact Clusius borrowed 6 illustrations from Dodonaeus's work, while on the other hand 33 illustrations already cut for Clusius were used for Dodonaeus's publication (cf. the detailed list in BB, II, pages 215-216; see also no. cp013446). |
| Note 3 | The drawings were very likely executed as usual by Pieter van der Borcht. The larger part of the blocks, if not all of them, were cut by Gerard Janssen van Kampen in 1571-1573 (Arch. 31, folio 77: 17 'figures des simples de Dodoneus', 17 florins Carolus guilders, on 8 December 1571; Arch. 17, folios 267 and 284: 1572 - 9 January 1573: execution of a large number of illustrations of plants ['figures des plantes'; in all 80] without specification if they were intended for the work of Dodonaeus or for the above mentioned publication of Clusius). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 14v (Purgantium herbar[um] hist[ori]a Remb. Dodonei, 8⁰, A⁰ 1573, f[euilles] 32, [price:] stuivers 10) and folio 16v ([Remberti Dodonei] Hist[ori]a Purgantium, [price:] stuivers 10). |
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