Record ID | cp010970 |
Voet reference number | 1129 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
Author | Desiderius ERASMUS |
Title page transcription | APOPHTHEGMATVM ‖ EX OPTIMIS VTRIVSQVE ‖ LINGVAE SCRIPTORIBVS, PER ‖ DESIDERIVM ERASMVM RO- ‖ TERODAMVM COLLECTORVM, ‖ LIBRI OCTO. ‖ ⊕ 12 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ - ‖ M.L.LXIIII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
Collation | 8⁰ [134]: A-Z⁸, Aa-Kk⁸; pages 1-604, [605-628] (Errors: 128-227 omitted, meaning that from 228 onwards numeration too high by 100 units; 256-257 for 266-267, 272-273 for 278-279, 276-277 for 282-283, 280-281 for 286-287, 284-285 for 290-291, 390 not numbered, 393 for 394, 437-452 for 453-468) |
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Pages | [1]: Title (N.B.: 'M.L.LXIIII.' instead of 'M.D.LXIIII.') [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 17 March 1563 old style, signed by I. Fabri) 3-10: Illustrissimo principi iuniori Gulielmo, duci Clivensi, Iuliacensi, Montensi…Des. Erasmus Roterodamus S.D. (Freiburg im Breisgau, 26 February 1531; italic type, words in greek type) 10: Index auctorum 11-604: Text (parts and marginals in italic type and greek type) [605-627]: Indices (on two columns; italic type) [627]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ANTVERPIAE. M.D. ‖ LXIV. POSTRID. NON. DECEMBRIS [628]: Blank |
Edition information | |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 643KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryKB National Library of the NetherlandsLeiden University LibrariesBritish Library LondonUtrecht University LibraryMunicipal Library Chartres - Chartres (France, dép. Eure-et-Loir)Bibliothèque Municipale de Colmar - Colmar (France, dép. Haut-Rhin)Royal Danish LibraryDresdenWadham LibraryBibliothèques de Rennes - Rennes (France, dép. Ille-et-Villaine)Bibliotheek Rotterdam - Rotterdam (The Netherlands)Municipal Library Troyes |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 43 (1564, no. 32) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), II, page 452. |
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Note 1 | Collection compiled by Erasmus of apophthegmata or egregie dicta attributed to men and women of Antiquity (1st edited by: Basel, 1531). |
Note 2 | This Plantin-edition is probably a reprint of the 1558-edition by de Tournes and Gazeau, Lyons (itself a reprint of former editions by S. Gryphius of Lyons). |
Note 3 | According to the colophon the printing was finished on 6 December 1564. |
Note 4 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 69, specifies: the wages for composing and printing were paid from 18 June till 24 November 1564, and amount to 64 florins Carolus guilders 19 stuivers (including 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers 'for les copies [= of the editions used for the reprint]' and 6 florins Carolus guilders for 'la table [= the indices forming pages 605-627] à Mattheis Ghisb [recht]'). For the edition 86 reams of paper were used (as each copy contains 33 quires, this means that 1,250 copies were printed), which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers per ream, came to 104 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 169 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers This made the cost price per copy 2¾ stuivers 'moins 5 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers [sur le tout]'. |
Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 1r (Apophtegmata Erasmi 8⁰, f[euilles] 33, [price:] stuivers 5), and M 164, folio 1r. |
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