| Record ID | cp010371 |
| Voet reference number | 1233 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3244489 |
| Author | Laurentius GAMBARA |
| Title page transcription | LAVRENTII ‖ GAMBARÆ BRIXIANI ‖ PRECATIONES ‖ AD DEVM. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Regij Prototypographi. ‖ M.D.LXXII. |
| Collation | 4º (221 × 156): A-G⁴; pages 1-54, [55-56] |
| Fingerprint | 157204 - # b1 A2 i$han : # b2 G3 $de |
| Number of sheets | 7 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Declaration of orthodoxy by the author 3-54: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) [55]: approbation (Antwerp, 11 March 1572, signed by B. Arias Montanus); Privilege (Brussels, 10 April 1572, s. I. de Witte) [56]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 333KBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library LondonPostel Abbey |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 333 (4) |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 123 (1572, no. 12)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 1225 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12927677USTC 440884 |
| Note 1 | Contains: a) Series of religious poems by Gambara, each dedicated to a prominent prelate (3-38). E.g. 'In Innocentes, Ad Alexandrum Farnesium cardinalem'; 'In Natalem Christi. Ad Ioannem Moronum cardinalem', etc. The prelates to whom the poems are dedicated, include, besides the two already quoted: Antonius Perenottius Granvellanus, cardinal; Ioannes Franciscus Gambara, cardinal; Marcus Antonius Amulius, cardinal; Antonius Helius, patriarcha Hierosolymitanus; Gherardus [de Groesbeeck], episcopus Leodiensis; Hieronymus Garimbertus, episcopus Gallesanus; Nicolaus Ormanettus, episcopus Patavinus; Laevinus Torrentius, archidiaconus Leodiensis; Thomas Aldobrandinus. A last poem is titled 'Ad Aurelium Portulacam in patriam euntem'; b) A poem by Prosper Martinengus Brixianus 'In Virginem Mariam' (39-40); c) Religious poems by Hippolytus Capilupus Mantuanus (41-49); d) Religious poems by M. Antonius Muretus (49-51); e) Religious poems by I. Franciscus Ferrarius Mutinensis (52-54). |
| Note 2 | Gambara's Ad Deum gratiarum actio pro victoria de Turcis habita (see following no.), formally presented as a separate edition, forms in fact part of the Precationes ad Deum, and was normally sold together with it. |
| Note 3 | The publication was again forced by Cardinal Granvelle upon a willing Plantin (cf. Plantin's letter to Granvelle, 6 March 1572 [Corr., II, no. 319]: 'Le 5 du present, j'ay receu les lectres de Vostre très illustre Exce dattées du dernier de décembre, avec les vers du Sr Gambara, lesquels j'ay incontinent délivrés entre les mains des censeurs de livres en ceste ville pour les approuver, afin de les envoyer à Bruxelles pour en obtenir le congé de les imprimer, ce que je feray en la plus grande diligence qu'il me sera possible, ainsi que de livrer, incontinent après, les 60 exemplaires à Monsieur le Provost d'Aire, pour les envoyer par la poste…'). Again, however, there was some delay owing to the negligence of the censor and of the 'secretaire' in charge of the privileges (letter from Plantin to Granvelle, 26 April 1572: Corr., II, no. 328). Something went also amiss with the copies to be forwarded to Granvelle and the author. In his letter of 5 December 1573 (Corr., IV, no. 499), Plantin explains to de Goneville, the agent of Cardinal Granvelle, that on 12 June 1573 he had entrusted to the agent of a transport-firm a bale of books to be delivered to Cardinal Granvelle at Naples. Having nothing more heard about this consignment (and the bill included), the typographer wrote this new letter. Plantin continues 'Au reste j'ay entendu de Monseigneur l'Archiduc [= Archidiacre] de Liège Livinus Torrentinus [= Torrentius] que le Seigneur Laur. Gambara estoit fort esmerveillé de ce que ayant imprimé ses poemes je ne luy en avois pas envoyé ni a son Illme Seigneurie, chose qui m'a fort rendu estonné et triste, veu que tout incontinent apres les avoir achevés j'en envoye 60 exemplaires a Monseigneur Monsieur le Prevost d'Aire ainsi que son Illme et Revme Se m'avoit ordonné par ses lectres precedentes: mais beaucoup de mois apres, ledict Seigneur Prevost d'Aire me renvoya partie desdicts exemplaires lesquels aussi je mis en ladicte balle derniere'. |
| Note 4 | A copy was mailed to de Çayas on 14 November 1572 (Corr., III, no. 432, page 220). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 10v ([Laurentii Gambarae poemata] Eadem in 4º. Anno 1572, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 5½ [= probably an error for 2½]), and folio 14v (Poemata Laurentii Gambara in 4º, 1572, f[euilles] 9 [i.e. the 7 sheets of the Precationes ad Deum and the 2 sheets of the Ad Deum gratiarum actio pro victoria de Turcis habita], [price:] stuivers 2½). |
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