| Record ID | cp010901 |
| Voet reference number | 2228A |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Richard STANIHURSTUS (STANYHURST) |
| Title page transcription | RICHARDI ‖ Stanihursti Dubliniensis ‖ DE REBVS ‖ IN HIBERNIA ‖ GESTIS, LIBRI ‖ QVATTVOR, ‖ Ad carissimum suum fratrem, clarissimumq̓ue virum, ‖ P. PLVNKETVM, Dominum Baronem Dunsaniæ. ‖ Accessit his libris Hibernicarum rerum Appendix, ex ‖ SILVESTRO GIRALDO CAMBRENSI ‖ peruetusto scriptore collecta; ‖ Cum eiusdem STANIHVRSTI adnotationibus. ‖ Omnia nunc primùm in lucem edita. ‖ ⊕ 44 ‖ LVGDVNI BATAVORVM ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ M.D.LXXXIIII. |
| Collation | 4⁰: A-Z⁴, a-l⁴; pages 1-264, [265-272] (Errors: 68 for 69) |
| Fingerprint | 158404 - # 1b1 A2 nia$ : # 1b2 Z3 i$au - # # 2b1 a l : # 2b2 l2 an |
| Number of sheets | 34 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-218: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type) 219-264: Appendix (italic type and roman type, marginals in italic type) [265-270]: Index (on two columns; italic type) [271]: Errata; Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, signed by Haller) [272]: Privilege (Fontainebleau, 5 August 1582, s. De Neufville) |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | CambridgeLeiden University Libraries. |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 270-271 (1584, no. 35) Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4405 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12927953USTC 422254 |
| Note 1 | Early history of Ireland in four 'books' down to the time of Henry II, written from an English point of view (pages 3-218), followed by an annotated appendix of extracts from the Welsh 12th century historiographer Giraldus Cambrensis on Ireland (Rerum Hibernicarum appendix, ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi, pervetusto scriptore collecta, cum Richardi Stanihursti adnotationibus; pages 219-264). The work is dedicated to Richard's brother-in-law, P. Plunket, baron Dunsany. The introductory pages of the History (pages 3-14) are in fact a dedicatory letter to Plunket. |
| Note 2 | The work was actually printed in Leiden, but a number of copies received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp imprint. |
| Note 3 | In 1587, when in contact with Plantin about the publication of his Life of St. Patrick, Stanihurstus must have asked the typographer if a reprint of the History of Ireland could be considered. Plantin, in a letter of 30 June 1581, answered in the negative, recalling the fact that copies of the original edition were still available (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1271). |
| Note 4 | 'Richardi Stanihursti Historia hybernica, in 4⁰' figures in the list of books printed by Plantin in Leiden, a copy of which he presented to the Leiden magistrate on 2 January 1585 (this copy in Leiden University Libraries: cf. E. Hulshoff Pol, 'Boucken op 't secreet. Plantijndrukken op het raadhuis te Leiden' in Leids Jaarboekje, 1972, page 92. |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 16v (Richardi Stanihursti Hybernica hist[ori]a, 4⁰, a⁰ [15] 84, f[euilles] 33, [price:] stuivers 10), and M 321. |
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