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De pestis praeservatione libellus, 1565

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Record ID cp010912
Voet reference number1246
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:3244516
Author GERARDUS BERGENSIS
Title page transcriptionGERARDI BER- ‖ GENSIS MEDICI IVRATI ‖ REIP. ANTVERPIENSIS, ‖ DE PESTIS PRAE- ‖ SERVATIONE ‖ LIBELLVS. ‖ ⊕ 17 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXV. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO.
Collation8º [124]: A-D⁸; pages 1-59, [60-62]
Fingerprint156508 - # b1 A2 $int : # b2 D5 e$si
Number of sheets4
Pages[1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 29 January 1564, signed by De Langhe) [3-6]: Amplissimo ordini senatorio reip. Antverpiensis Gerardus Bergensis. S.P.D 7-59: Text 59: Ad lectorem (italic type) [60]: approbation (s. Sebastianus Baer, Antwerp) [61]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTO- ‖ PHORVS PLANTINVS ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ANNO ‖ M.D.LXV.XII MARTII [62-64]: Blank
Edition information
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus - 8-581 British Library London - 1167 d 23 Nederlandse Maatschappij ter bevordering van de Geneeskunde, Amsterdam KBR Royal Library of Belgium Cambridge Biblioteca Nacional de España Vatican Apostolic Library UNamur- R4Z.0178
Digital copies Museum Plantin-Moretus: 8 581 (1)
Bibliographical references Ruelens-de Backer, page 51 (1565, no. 24)Van Schevensteen, Les traités de pestilence publiés à Anvers, pages 134-138 (with reproduction of the title-page on page 136)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 294
Online bibliographical referencesSTCV c:stcv:12923866USTC 401229
Note 1Medical treatise on the protection against the plague (principal problems enumerated and discussed by Van Schevensteen, pages 135-138).
Note 2According to the colophon the printing was finished on 12 March 1565.
Note 3The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 72 verso, gives the following details about 'Gerardus Berg. de peste': 600 copies were printed. The wages for composing and printing are entered on 4 March 1565, and amount to 4 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers Seven reams of paper 'petit bastard' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers per ream, came to 8 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 12 florins Carolus guilders 13 stuivers
Note 4Listed in M 296, folio 7 verso (Gerardus bergensis de peste, 8º, f[euilles] 4, [price:] stuivers ¾), and M 164, folio 14 recto.
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