| Record ID | cp010916 |
| Voet reference number | 1018 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Alanus COPUS (COPE) |
| Title page transcription | DIALOGI SEX ‖ CONTRA ‖ SVMMI PONTIFICATVS, ‖ MONASTICAE VITAE, SANCTORVM, ‖ SACRARVM IMAGINVM OPPVGNA- ‖ TORES, ET PSEVDOMARTYRES: ‖ In quibus præterquàm quòd nonnulla, quæ alij hactenus vel atti- ‖ gerunt leuiter, vel penitus omiserunt, paullò vberius & plenius ‖ explicātur; Centurionum etiā Magdeburgensiū, auctorum Apo- ‖ logiæ Anglicanæ, Pseudomartyrologorum nostri temporis, ma- ‖ xime verò Ioannis Foxi, & aliorum, qui adulterino Euangelio ‖ nomina dederunt, variæ fraudes, putidæ calumniæ, & insignia in ‖ historiis Ecclesiæ contaminandis mendacia deteguntur: ‖ Nunc primùm ad Dei Optimi Maximi gloriam, & Catholicȩ religio- ‖ nis confirmationem ab ALANO COPO ANGLO editi. ‖ Cum triplici indice, primo auctorum, altero capitum, tertio ‖ rerum & verborum. ‖ PSALM. XXVII. ‖ Vnum petij à Domino, hoc requiram, vt inhabitem in domo Domini ‖ omnibus diebus vitæ meæ; vt videam voluntatem Do- ‖ mini, & visitem templum eius. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXVI. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [161]: A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, Aa-Tt⁸; pages [1-32], 1-1002, [1003-1050] (Errors: 14 for 15, 707 for 721, 638 for 738, 742 for 741, 800 for 801, 837-846 omitted, 994 not numbered, 995 - [two pages not numbered] - 994 - [one page not numbered] - 996…) |
| Fingerprint | 156604 - # a1 A2 e$v : # a2 B5 oni - # 1b1 A ae : # 1b2 Z5 ant - # 2b1 a $e : # 2b2 z5 $ill - # 3b1 2A V : # 3b2 2T5 iner |
| Number of sheets | 134.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: approbation (Louvain, 18 January 1565, signed by Cunerus Petri); Privilege (Brussels, 20 January 1564 old style, s. De Langhe) [3-7]: Reverendo…D. Ioanni Lentallerio, coenobiarchae Aquiscinctensi Alanus Copus S.P.D. (Antwerp, 1 January 1566) [8-11]: Auctoris praefatio ad lectorem (parts and marginals in italic type, words in greek type) [12-14]: Index (italic type; on three columns) [15]: Nomina eorum…[= of heretic authors] (on two columns; italic type, greek type words) [15-17]: Admonitio ad lectorem (marginals in italic type) [18]: Errata (roman type and italic type) [19-28]: Table [29-30]: Errata (parts in italic type) [31-32]: Quotations from Eusebius, Nicephorus Callistus and Marcellus Apameensis (marginals in italic type) 1-1002: Text (parts and marginals in italic type; greek type words) [1003-1048]: Index (on two columns; italic type) [1049]: Blank [1050]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS PLAN- ‖ TINVS ANTVERPIAE, ANNO MILLE- ‖ SIMO QVINGENTESIMO SEXAGESI- ‖ MO SEXTO |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut, given as hors-texte (see Notes) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 334 Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience Antwerp KBR Royal Library of Belgium British Library London KU Leuven- Maurits Sabbe Library, P279.114.4/Q° HARPUNamur- R6A.0382- Rés.10C.10- Rés.9E.24 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 52 (1566, no. 2).Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 1387 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12925992USTC 401293 |
| Note 1 | Diatribes, in the form of dialogues, against the Protestant reformers and 'pseudo-martyrs'. |
| Note 2 | On page 506, in the midst of the fourth dialogue, the following text in form of a title: SEQVITVR EFFI- ‖ GIES CRVCIS. (with two bands of fleurons above, and two bands beneath this inscription). This cross - being the miraculous cross, found in an ash tree at St. Donat's, Glamorganshire, shortly after the accession of Elizabeth - is reproduced, printed in sepia, on a separate broadside, 390 × 275, with a typographical text (in italic type), headed: 'Anno Domini. 1559. XIII Kalend. Aprilis', and underneath: 'Ioannes Fennus' (in Museum Plantin-Moretus and British Library-copies bound with the text after page 506). The original drawing with the accompanying manuscript text in Museum Plantin-Moretus (Denucé, Manuscrits, no. 293). |
| Note 3 | In the dedicatory to Lentallerius Copus explains that he had been exhorted to publish this work by several pious men, including Cunerus, priest of St. Peter at Louvain, and Guilielmus Lindanus, at that time bishop of Roermond. |
| Note 4 | The Dialogi sex seems to have been in fact the work of Dr. Nicholas Harpsfield, the Catholic theologian, who was imprisoned in the Tower from 1559 until his death in 1575, and who wrote this violent diatribe against the Protestants whilst in prison. Harpsfield entrusted the publication to Copus, who, to avoid the aggravation of his friend's hardships, put his own name onto the book. The letters at the end of the Dialogi, on page 1002: 'A.H.L.N.H.E.V.E.A.C.' should stand for 'Auctor hujus libri, Nicolaus Harpsfeldus. Eum vero edidit Alanus Copus' (cf. Dictionary of National Biography). From the dedicatory and the forewords to the readers it should be deduced, however, that Copus did more than merely edit the manuscript of Harpsfield: he must have rewritten parts of it and made corrections and additions. |
| Note 5 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 78 verso, gives the following details about 'Dialogus Anglorum': the wages for composing and printing are entered from 17 March 1565 till 2 February 1566, and amount to 278 florins Carolus guilders 17 stuivers - calculated by inadvertence by Plantin to be 279 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers In all 491 reams 'petit bastard' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers per ream, came to 609 florins Carolus guilders, bringing the overall costs to 888 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers |
| Note 6 | The format has the size of an in quarto, yet the quires are numbered as for an in 8⁰; each numbered quire is in fact formed not by one but by two sheets (cf. Arch. 4, folio 78 verso, where, in one instance, is specified '18 feilles entieres p[ar] demies'). This means that the technique was used of the so-called 'imposition by half-sheet' (cf. L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, page 304; see also no. 722). |
| Note 7 | The total number of sheets per copy is, consequently, not 65 (= A-Z, a-z, Aa-Tt), but 130 - given in the Plantinian catalogues as being 134½, very likely because the broadside on which the Cross was counted for 4½ sheets per copy. As 491 reams of paper were used this would give, at 134½ sheets per copy, some 1,825 copies. |
| Note 8 | At the end of 1564 Plantin and Copus must have agreed that Plantin should print the work at the expense of the author. In a note dated 5 January 1565 the typographer states he has received 300 florins Carolus guilders from Copus 'à bon compte sur le livre que ie luy ay promis d'imprimer à 55 stuivers la rame pour papier et faceon et à luy rendre les exemplaires parfaicts' (Arch. 3, folio 21 recto). Some other payments by Copus are entered later: 360 florins Carolus guilders and 90 florins Carolus guilders in September 1565 (Ibidem, folio 35 recto), 181 florins Carolus guilders on 10 November 1565 (Ibidem, folio 38 recto), 80 florins Carolus guilders on 24 January 1566 (Ibidem, folio 44 recto), making 1,011 florins Carolus guilders The total of the payments lay in fact somewhat higher, as in the cost-accounting note (Arch. 4, folio 78 verso) is entered 1,097 florins Carolus guilders for payments by Copus 'à diverses fois'. As Plantin counted 1 florins Carolus guilders 2 stuivers per copy this meant that Copus was entitled to some 1,000 copies. The total number of copies printed was in the region of 1,825. It may, consequently, be surmised that the edition was not completely reserved for Copus, but that part of the publication - some 825 copies - were to be sold directly by Plantin for his own benefit. |
| Note 9 | When the edition was already finished and put on the market, Plantin decided for some unknown reason to buy back the copies reserved for Copus: in the cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 78 verso, is entered the sale by Copus of 260 copies (at 220 florins Carolus guilders - an error for 286 florins Carolus guilders; March 1566), 700 copies (at 770 florins Carolus guilders; as can be deduced from other sources: in August 1566) and 40 copies (at 42 florins Carolus guilders); in all thus 1,000 copies. These transactions are also noted with more details in Arch. 37, opening 37 right and 77, and Arch. 44, folios 78 verso, 111 verso, 116 verso and 121 verso. |
| Note 10 | Copus inquired in 1568 about the possibilities of a new edition, but in his letter of 17 July Plantin answered that he had still too many copies in stock to be willing to take the risk (Correspondance de C. Plantin, I, no. 147). See also following no. |
| Note 11 | Listed in M 296, folio 4 verso (Dialogi sex Alani Copi contra hist. Madeburg., f[euilles] 134½, [price:] stuivers 28), and M 164, folio 8 verso. |
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