| Record ID | cp010620 |
| Voet reference number | 727 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132862 |
| Author | Petrus BIZARUS (BIZARRI) |
| Title page transcription | PERSICARVM ‖ RERVM HISTORIA ‖ IN XII. LIBROS ‖ DESCRIPTA, ‖ TOTIVS GENTIS INITIA, ‖ MORES, INSTITVTA, ET RERVM DOMI ‖ forisq̓ue gestarum veram atque dilucidam enar- ‖ rationem continens. ‖ AVCTORE PETRO BIZARO ‖ SENTINATE. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXXXIII. |
| Collation | Folio [250]: †⁶, A-Z⁶, a-p⁶, q⁴, r⁶; pages [1-12], 1-451, [452-476] (Errors: 80 for 86, 365 for 165, 213 for 313) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: illustration (coat-of-arms) [3-8]: Illustriss…principi ac domino, domino Augusto, duci Saxoniae…(s. Petrus Bizarus, Antwerp, 13 February 1583) [9]: Auctor ad eundem illustrissimum principem, &c. (italic type and Hebrew) [10-12]: Latin poems to the author and his work by Hugo Favolius, I. Iesseus, Clemens Trelaeius, Matthias Sasbout (italic type) 1-451: Text (part and marginals in italic type) [452-474]: Index (on two columns; italic type) [475]: Errata et Addenda (parts in italic type) [476]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut, 133 × 110, on page [2], showing the coat-of-arms of August, Elector of Saxony |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 288KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonUtrecht University Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 258 (1583, no. 21) |
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| Note 1 | A history of Persia in 12 'books' from Antiquity till 1581, pages 1-451, with at the end (pages 449-451) a list of the rulers of Persia (and of the Ottoman Empire). |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory no specific details are given about the genesis of the work. |
| Note 3 | In October 1582 the printing had already started: in a letter of the 16th of the month to Camerarius (Suppl. Corr., no. 176), Plantin includes the 'Historiam Persicam Petri Bizarri in folio' among the works he was printing ('Sub praelis habemus…'). |
| Note 4 | 550 copies were printed; the compositors were paid 16 stuivers per sheet (Arch. 788). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Rerum Persicarum eiusdem, f⁰, f[euilles] 122, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 2), M 164, folio 4v, and Ms. 321. |
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