| Record ID | cp010913 |
| Voet reference number | 2149 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Joannes Baptista ROMANUS |
| Title page transcription | INSTITVTIONES ‖ CHRISTIANÆ, ‖ seu ‖ PARVVS CATECHISMVS ‖ CATHOLICORVM, ‖ Præcipua Christianæ pietatis capita complectens: ‖ PRIMVM quidem à P. IOANNE BAPTISTA RO- ‖ mano, Societatis Iesu, in rudiorum & idiotarum gratiam, ‖ iuxta SS. Concilij Tridentini decretum sess. 25. imaginibus ‖ distinctus, nunc vero æreis formis ad D. PETRI CANI- ‖ SII, Societatis Iesu, Institutiones eleganter expressus. ‖ ⊕ 36 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, Architypo- ‖ graphus Regius, sibi & Philippo Gallæo. ‖ M.D.LXXXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (140 × 90): A-N⁸, O⁴; pages 1-212, [213-216] (Errors: 53 for 63, 8 for 78) |
| Fingerprint | 158908 - # b1 A2 Val : # b2 O2 rum$ |
| Number of sheets | 13.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3]: Catholico lectori [4]: Blank 5-209: Text (on uneven pages: illustration with text underneath [italic type, part in roman type]; on even pages: blank, with the exception of page 6) 210: Blank 211: approbation (Antwerp, 25 February 1589, signed by Henricus Zebertus Dungaeus) 212: Privilege (Brussels, 7 April 1589, s. I. de Witte) [213]: ANTVERPIAE EXCVDEBAT SIBI ET ‖ PHILIPPO GALLAEO CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS ‖ REGIVS, ANNO M.D.LXXXIX [214-216]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Engravings, c. 70 × 80: 102 illustrations, each printed within a small frame (most of them numbered, but with a numeration repeated at each subject). In the style of Pieter van der Borcht |
| Copies | British Library London- 3505-aa. 87 |
| Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12927084 |
| Note 1 | The 'Christian institutions' illustrated. As stated on the title-page the source of inspiration was a publication of Romanus (first edition: Dottrina Christiana nella quale si contigono li principali misteri della nostra fede rappresentati con figure per instrutione de gl'Idioti, et di quelli che non sanno legere. Conforme à quello che ordino il Sacro Concilio Tridentino nella sessione XXV. Composta dal P. Gio. Battista Romano della Compagnia di Gesu. In Roma, nella stamperia di Vincentio Accolti, 1587, 8⁰, 78 pages, with rather crude woodcuts: cf. De Backer-Sommervogel, 3, Columns 379-380); but, as also can be deduced from the title-page, with additions inspired from the 'Christian institutions' of P. Canisius (cf. nos. 873-883. |
| Note 2 | A joint edition by Plantin and Philip Galle. It may be assumed that the latter took the initiative and had the illustrations made and printed, while Plantin took only care of the relatively minor operation of printing the typographical texts. |
| Note 3 | Two copies ('dos libros del Cathechismo figurado que novamente salen de la estampa') were mailed by J. Moretus to de Çayas on 15 June 1589 (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1471). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 3r (Cathechismus Cathol. Baptistae Ro[mani] cum figuris aeneis in 8⁰, f[euilles] 13½, 1589, [price:] stuivers 30) Not in M 321. |
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