| Record ID | cp010411 |
| Voet reference number | 589 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132967 |
| Author | ARIAS MONTANUS (MONTANO) Benedictus |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page: see reproduction] |
| Collation | 8⁰ (169 × 110): A-I⁸, K⁴, a-b⁸, c⁴; pages [1-152], 1-39, [40] |
| Fingerprint | 000008 - # 1b1 A2 centio : # 1b2 K3 t - # 2b1 a en : # 2b2 e3 conci |
| Number of sheets | 12 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 9 March 1570, signed by I. de Langhe; in roman type capitals) [3-5]: Christophorus Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 May 1571; italic type) [6]: Christo liberatori S. (10 lines Latin poem; italic type) [7]: illustration [8-147]: Text (on the left page: Latin poem, in italic type; on the right page: illustration, with, printed typographically, above a caption in roman type capitals and a distichon in italic type, underneath a line in roman type capitals) [149-149]: Approbationes (Louvain, 17 March 1571, s. Augustinus Hunnaeus; Antwerp, 1 March 1570 old style, signed by Silvester Pardo; Antwerp, signed by Franciscus Sonnius) [150-151]: Benedicti Ariae Montani carmen votivum ad Christum Iesum (italic type) [152]: Blank [1-2]: Christophorus Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 August 1571; italic type) [2]: Note on the book (italic type) 3-36: Annotationes in odas Bened. Ariae Montani (parts in italic type) 37-39: List of the illustrations (italic type) [40]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Title-page: 147 × 90, reduction from the one in the preceding no., probably also engraved by P. Huys 2) On page [7]: circular portrait, 85, of the Christ looking to the left 3) From page [9] on: 70 illustrations, the same as in the preceding no., with, however, one change (illustration no. 7 [B3]: showing now the monogram of P. Huys) and some variants according to the editions. The copy in KBR Royal Library of Belgium has the same illustrations as the [1571]-publication (with the change of illustration no. 7), but the copy in Museum Plantin-Moretus has three illustrations showing the same representation but recut: illustrations no. 40 (F4: Flight to Egypt; with the monograms of Pieter van der Borcht and Joannes Wiericx), no. 61 (I1: Christ on the Cross; with now only the monogram of Pieter van der Borcht, and thus without the monogram of Joannes Wiericx and the date 1572), no. 63 (I3: the Sepulture; with now the monogram of Joannes Wiericx) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - R 55.23KBR Royal Library of Belgium - VH 30460 LPUniversity Library Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 121 (1572, no. 8) Morales, nos. 19 and 23 J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1554-1949, 1970, no. 27 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12927493 |
| Note 1 | Re-issue of the preceding no., with the same texts, including approbationes, privilege and Plantin's forewords, dated 1571. The illustrations are identical, with the exception of B3, which has been replaced by another one (whilst in some copies of the edition other variants have to be noted: cf. illustrations). This time they are not printed within an engraved border. The pages, consequently, are much smaller than in the former edition. Owing to this fact the title-page of the 1571-edition has been copied on a smaller scale in order to fit this smaller in 8⁰ format. |
| Note 2 | Plantin, probably following a demand or a wish of his friend, told Arias Montanus on 29 October 1576 that he would print the Humanae Salutis Monumenta in a smaller format as soon as possible (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 664, page 46: 'Humanae salutis Monumenta quamprimum potero minori forma recudam'). The project, however, was no more advanced on 11 February 1576, when the printer told his friend (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 702, page 127): 'Emblemata humanae salutis prima occasione uti mones imprimam amicisque istuc et alibi mittam'. And, indeed, in these months Mijnken Liefrinck, specialized in intaglio-printing, printed for Plantin 3,662 sheets of the 'Monumenta Montani' (representing, at 4 florins Carolus guilders per hundred, the sum of 146 florins Carolus guilders) (Arch. 18, opening 158 right). This means only about 50 complete sets of the 72 illustrations: Plantin had only the intention, at the explicit demand of his friend, to distribute these illustrations without accompanying texts to friends and 'patroni'. It was not yet the publication of the edition in a smaller format as stressed in the letter of 29 October 1575. The political troubles must have forced Plantin to postpone the project until better times. |
| Note 3 | One of the types used by Plantin for the 'smaller' edition described under this no. was only available in his press from 1580: the first fount of the 'mediane cursive pendante' of Granjon, in which the poems accompanying the illustrations are set, was delivered by H. van den Keere on 29 April 1580 (cf. M. Parker, K. Melis, H.D.L. Vervliet, 'Early inventories of punches, matrices and moulds in the Plantin-Moretus Archives' in De Gulden Passer, 38, 1960, page 79). This makes it quite clear that the 'smaller' edition must have been printed after 1580. The 'Livre des Ouvriers' allows more precise dates: the compositor Van de Velde was paid on 30 September and 7 October 1581 for having set the sheets A-I⁸, K⁴, a-b⁸, c⁴ of a Monumenta Montani (Arch. 33, folio 19 recto) - which perfectly fits the description of the 'smaller' edition. See following no. for the reasons which can have induced Plantin to 'forget' to note the exact date of the publication and to reproduce the old approbationes and privilege. |
| Note 4 | Not listed in M 296 and M 321. The omission in M 321 (which lists carefully per year all the publications of the Plantin Press from 1580 onwards) is quite exceptional and difficult to explain. |
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