Record ID | cp010705 |
Voet reference number | 605 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:690329 |
Author | Cornelius AURELIUS |
Title page transcription | BATAVIA, ‖ SIVE ‖ DE ANTIQVO VEROQVE ‖ EIVS INSVLÆ QVAM RHENVS ‖ in HOLLANDIA facit situ, descri- ‖ ptione & laudibus; aduersus GERAR- ‖ DVM NOVIOMAGVM, ‖ LIBRI DVO; ‖ Auctore CORN. AVRELIO, ‖ D. Erasmi Roterodami olim præceptore. ‖ Item alia quæ proxima pagella indicabit. ‖ BONAVENTVRÆ VVLCANII operâ, ‖ nunc primum in lucem edita. ‖ ⊕ 43 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXXXVI. |
Collation | 8⁰ [128]: *⁸, A-H⁸, I⁴; pages [1-16], 1-135, [136] (Errors: 99 not numbered, 101 for 117, 108 for 124, 126 for 128) |
Fingerprint | 158608 - # a1 *2 udin : # *5 mo - # b1 A s$ : # b2 I3 h |
Number of sheets | 9.50 |
Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (italic type and roman type capitals) [3-10]: Ampliss. prudentissimisq. viris praetori, consulibus, senatuique Civitatis Leydensis, Bon. Vulcanius S.D. (Leiden, 18 May 1586; Greek words, marginal in italic type) [11-13]: De Corn. Aurelio et variis eius scriptis (italic type; parts in roman type) [14]: Bon. Vulcanius ad Batavos, de hac Cor. Aurelii editione (italic type) [15]: Ad virum doctiss. Bon. Vulcanium, pro Cornelio Aurelio luci ac vitae restituto…Franco Duyckius Leydensis [16]: Adelardus Amstelredamus Cor. Aurelio doctissimo signed by (Louvain, 1515) 1-108 (= for 124): Text (parts in italic type, marginals in italic type and gothic type) 125-135: Ex Batavica Historia Gerhardi Geldenhaurii Noviomagi (italic type; parts in roman type capitals) [136]: Blank |
Edition information | |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 153 - A 1716KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de España |
Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 1716 (2) |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 292-293 (1586, no. 20)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 200 Typographia Batava, 371 |
Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12917042USTC 406736STCN 44102003 |
Note 1 | Edition of some of the writings of Aurelius by Bonaventura Vulcanius, at that time professor at Leiden. The autographed papers of Aurelius are still in Leiden University Libraries among the Vulcanius-manuscripts. |
Note 2 | Contents of C. Aurelius: a) Libri duo of Batavia, a history of that country in Antiquity and early Middle Ages (liber 1: pages 1-48; liber 2, dedicated to Reynerius Snoyus Geduanus [= Goudanus]: pages 49-77, containing also, at the end, pages 70-76, a letter by Aloysius Marlianus to Hieronymus Buslidianus [Busleyden]); b) Cornelius Aurelius, Ad suam Bataviam (page 78); c) Epistolae (pages 79-98): to Johannes de Heemstede (pages 79-88), Henry, Count of Nassau (pages 89-91), Jacobus de Lochorsta (pages 92-94), Johannes Banningus (pages 95-98); d) Diadema imperatorium, sive de coronatione Maximiliani imperatoris, deq. boni imperatoris officio. Oratio per eundem Corn. Aurelium composita in persona Summi Pontificis, quando Imperatorem coronat (pages 99-108 [= for 124]). Followed by an extract of a History of Batavia by G. Geldenhauer (pages 125-135). |
Note 3 | The publication was in fact printed at Leiden at the Officina Plantiniana of Franciscus Raphelengius (copy with the Leiden imprint: Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 1799). Part of the edition received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp address. |
Note 4 | Listed as a Plantin-edition in M 296, folio 2 recto (Batavia Corn. Aurelii, 8⁰, f[euilles] 9½, a⁰ 86, [price:] stuivers 3), and M 321 (under 1586). |
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