| Record ID | cp010890 |
| Voet reference number | 1190 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Sebastianus FOXIUS MORZILLUS (FOX MORCILLO) |
| Title page transcription | SEBASTIANI ‖ FOXII MORZILLI HI- ‖ SPALENSIS, DE HI- ‖ storiæ institutione, ‖ Dialogus. ‖ ⊕ 2 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ 1557. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [125]: A-O⁸; folios 1 recto-112 verso (Errors: 23 for 32) |
| Fingerprint | 155708 - # b1 A2 $licu : # b2 04 icio,$ |
| Number of sheets | 14 |
| Pages | [1 recto]: Title [1 verso]: Blank 2 recto-verso: Sebastianus Foxius Morzillus D. Ludovico Zerdae viro clarissimo S 3 recto-112 recto: Text (italic type, parts and marginals in roman type) 112 verso: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | British Library London - 580.C.6 [1]University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library Basel - Basel (Switserland)CambridgeKB National Library of the NetherlandsBodleian Libraries |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 14 (1557, no. 5) Gonzalez, signed by Fox Morcillo, pages 30-31 Kuiper, page 194 Palau y Dulcet, 5, page 479, no. 94121. |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12924444USTC 404279 |
| Note 1 | Treatise on historiography. In the dedicatory Foxius explains that the lecture of Diodorus Siculus's Historia de rebus Graecọrum induced him to study the 'ratio ac via omnis historiae cum fructu legendae ac indicandae'. In imitation of Plato he gives his study the form of a dialogue. The 'occasio dialogi' is this: visiting his friend Petrus Nannius, Foxius was exhorted by the company present to write the history of the Spanish people. Nannius thought his friend capable of doing it, but Foxius could not agree: the historian who should write this history has to be a 'orator summus, prudentissimus homo, atque longo rerum usu in Rep[ublica] diu versatus'. This leads the conversation onto the subject: how to write history (= forma scribendae historiae perfecta). Cf. the analysis of the work in Kuiper, pages 224-227. |
| Note 2 | The study originated about 1554. Cf. Gonzalez, S. Fox Morzillo, pages 30-31; Kuiper, page 194. |
| Note 3 | The edition of 1557 is the first known and very likely the editio princeps. It was, however, to all probability not printed by Plantin. This can be deduced from the formula of the imprint on the title-page ('apud' instead of 'ex officina') and from the type, which does not seem to have been used by Plantin. This type points to a Parisian typographer. Part of the edition received a title-page with the printer's mark and address of the Parisian bookseller and publisher, Martinus Juvenis (le Jeune) (a copy in Biblioteca Nacional de España). |
| Note 4 | Gonzalez and Lueben mention a reprint of 1564 at Antwerp (publisher not stated); no copies are known. Kuiper, page 224, records reprints in 1576 (in: Bodin, Methodus historica, Basel, P. Perna) and 1579 (in: Penus artis historicae, Basel, P. Perna). |
| Note 5 | The work was already on sale on 9 April 1557 (Arch. 38, folio 5 verso: 7 copies sold to Martin Nutius, bookseller at Antwerp; price per copy: 1½ stuivers). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 6 verso (8⁰, 1557, f[euilles] 14, price: 1½ stuivers), and M 164, folio 13 verso. |
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