| Record ID | cp010668 |
| Voet reference number | 919 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1082478 |
| Author | Joannes CARPENTEIUS |
| Title page transcription | SANCTISSIMI PATRIS ‖ BENEDICTI ‖ VITA, ‖ Heroicis tetrastichis expressa: ‖ Auctore IOANNE CARPENTEIO, ‖ Attrebatio Jurisconsulto. ‖ ITEM, ‖ Malchus Maroniades, siue, Monachus fugitiuus, ex D. Hiero- ‖ nymo, per eundem auctorem heroico carmine redditus. ‖ Ad Ampliss. Patrem, & Reuerendiss. Dominum D. Ioannem ‖ Sarracenum, Diui Vedasti apud Attrebates ‖ Abbatem meritissimum. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVIII. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [178]: A-E⁴; pages 1-39, [40] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Tetrastichon I.C.A 3-6: Ad…D. Ioannem Sarracenum, divi Vedasti apud Attrebates abbatem…(prologus; 1 November 1585; italic type, marginals in roman type) 7-15: Benedicti vita 15: Note on the vita in form of a letter to Sarracenus, 13 November 1585 16-39: Malchus Maroniades (italic type) 39: approbation (Antwerp, 10 March 1588, signed by D. Henricus Zebertus à Dunghen), Privilege (Brussels, 21 April 1588, s. I. de Witte) [40]: Blank |
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| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 18- A 335KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 306-307 (1588, no. 6) Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 4655 (without the year noted). |
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| Note 1 | Contains two 'carmina heroica': the first on the life of St. Benedictus of Nursia (pages 7-15), the second 'Malchus Maroniades' or The Fugitive Monk, compiled from St. Hieronymus (16-39). |
| Note 2 | Jean Sarrazin, Abbot of St. Vaast at Arras, to whom the work is dedicated, approached as early as 1586 Plantin for an edition of the life of St. Benedictus and of 'l'histoire de Malchus', each to be illustrated with fifty intaglio-prints. In a letter of 30 April 1586 Plantin carefully details the huge costs of such a project (Corr., VII, no. 1094). In Plantin's later letters to Sarrazin nothing more is said of this edition: the attention of the abbot became centered upon the publication of an other work of Carpenteius, the In vaticinia Isaiae…paraphrasis (see preceding no.). However, probably to do a favour for the powerful abbot, Plantin also printed - but without illustrations - the Vita S. Benedicti and the Malchus Maroniades, published in one volume. |
| Note 3 | Listed in M 321 (f[euilles] 5, [price:] stuivers 2). Under In vaticinia Isaiae…, however, the Vita S. Benedicti is noted as a kind of appendix. It may be surmised that in fact the Vita S. Benedicti was normally sold together with the In vaticinia Isaiae… |
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