| Record ID | cp010796 |
| Voet reference number | 1512 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132941 |
| Author | Guy LE FÈVRE DE LA BODERIE (FABRICIUS BODERANUS) |
| Title page transcription | L'ENCYCLIE ‖ DES SECRETS DE ‖ L'ETERNITE'. ‖ A' TRESHAVLT ET TRES- ‖ Illustre Prince Monseigneur le Duc ‖ d'Allençon frere du Roy tres-chretien ‖ CHARLES neufiéme. ‖ PAR GUY LE FÉVRE DE ‖ LA BODERIE. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ EN ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, ‖ Imprimeur du Roy Catholique. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 4º [176]: A-Y⁸; pages 1-344, [345-352] (Errors: 22-23 for 30-31, 246 = 2 upside down, 158 for 258, 172 for 272) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: illustration (portrait of the author with accompanying Hebrew text) 3-8: Advertissement au lecteur 9: A son livre (italic type) 10-26: Epistre…dedicatoire…a Monseigneur le Duc d'Allençon…(italic type, part in roman type) 27-156: Text (italic type, marginals in roman type, words in Hebrew) 156-163: Latin and French poems of Io. Auratus, Rene de Voyer, Antoine Valet, Carolus Tustanus, Carolus Paschalis, Nicolas le Fevre (in French: italic type; in Latin: roman type) [164]: Recueil de vers pour la plus-part leus et presentez a Mondict. seigneur le Duc d'Alencon (= title) 165-344: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) [345]: Poem in Hebrew with Symbolum auctoris (part in italic type) [346]: Approbationes (24 April 1570, signed by Thomas Gozeus; s. Nicolaus Intosanus à Fraxinis) [347]: Privilege (Antwerp, 23 October 1570, s. de Langhe) [348-352]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | Woodcut: Portrait in medallion of the author, diam. 92, with his device in Greek characters, on page [2]. Above the woodcut, typographically printed: 'Aetatis suae an. XXX.' |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 362KBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 114 (1571, no. 22) |
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| Note 1 | Contains: a) A philosophical poem on the 'Secrets of Eternity' in nine 'cercles' (pages 27-156); b) Latin and French poems addressed to the poet and his work by friends (156-163); c) 'Recueil de vers pour la plus-part leus et presentez à…seigneur le duc d'Alençon' (164-344): series of sonnets, 'anagrammatismes', 'cantiques', epitaphs, acrostics, hymns, elegies, etc., in honour of the Valois, of prominent French nobles, of friends and relatives, etc. (including: an 'anagrammatisme' in honour of Plantin [187] and of his daughter Madeleine [188], 'au seigneur Christofle Plantin pour estrenes le premier iour de l'An. 1570' [212-213], '5 sonnets au roy catholique sur l'impression des grandes Bibles d'Anvers' [244-246], sonnet to 'François de Ravlenghien' [251-252]). |
| Note 2 | The edition has no year of publication on the title-page. As the privilege is dated 23 October 1570, it may be supposed that the printing was only finished in 1571. In any case the copy for Cardinal Granvelle was mailed as late as 7 July 1571 (Corr., II, no. 279; cf. Ibidem, no. 301, page 275). |
| Note 3 | Listed in M 296, folio 6r (Encyclie de l'Eternité par Guy le favre, 4º, f[euilles] 43½, [price:] stuivers 11), and Ms. 164, folio 11v. |
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