Opera, [Introductory volume], 1577.
| Record ID | cp011052 |
| Voet reference number | 604 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132839 |
| Author | Aurelius AUGUSTINUS |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page; within cut-out parts printed typographically:] □ OPERA ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI ‖ ET DOCTORIS PRÆCIPVI, ‖ TOMIS DECEM COMPREHENSA: ‖ PER ‖ THEOLOGOS LOVANIENSES EX MA- ‖ nuscriptis codicibus multo labore emendata, ‖ & ab innumeris erroribus vindicata: ‖ Illustrata prȩterea eruditis censuris, & locupletata ‖ multis homiliis & aliquot epistolis eiusdem ‖ B. AVGVSTINI, antea non editis. ‖ Cum Indice tripartito. ‡ ANTVERPIAE ‖ EX OFFICINA CHRISTOPHORI PLANTINI, ‖ ARCHITYPOGRAPHI REGII. ‖ CIƆ. IƆ. LXXVII. |
| Collation | Folio [309]: *⁶, **⁸, pages [1-28] |
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| Pages | [1]: French title: DIVI ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ OPERA [2]: illustration [3]: Title [4]: approbation (Louvain, 1 September 1571, signed by Joannes Molanus); Privilege (Brussels, 5 October 1575, signed by Jac. Blyleven) [5-6]: Illustrissimis…DD. Christophoro et Ludovico Madruciis S.R.E. cardinalibus amplissimis, Christophorus Plantinus S [7-8]: Ad…lectorem Joannis Molani de huius editionis ratione, praefatio (Louvain, 10 September 1576; italic type, words in roman type) [9-17]: Vita beatissimi patris ac praecipui doctoris, sancti Aurelli Augustini, Hipponensis episcopi, authore Possidio Calamensi episcopo, ipsius discipulo (on two columns, parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [18-26]: Indiculus librorum S. Augustini…editus a Possidio Calamensi episcopo (on two columns; italic type, parts in roman type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [27]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, signed by Haller) [28]: Privilege (Paris, 19 February 1577, signed by Poussemothe); approbation (Paris, 15 October 1576, signed by Robertus Percheron, Genebrard, F. Briard, F. Ardier) |
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Opera, I, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS I. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus per THEOLOGOS ‖ LOVANIENSES ab innumeris erroribus repurgatus. ‖ Quorum diligentiam, & vtilissimum laborem, indicent Castiga- ‖ tiones, quæ pleræq per eosdem ad calcem Tomi huius ‖ succincta breuitate sunt annotatæ. ‖ ⊕ 30 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [309]: A-Z⁸, a-b⁶; pages 1-390, [391-392] (Errors: 233 for 133). All pages on two columns |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table 3-365: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 366-375: Appendix (parts and marginals in italic type) 376-390: Castigationes (parts in italic type) [391-392]: Blank |
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Opera, II, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS II. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ COMPLECTENS EPISTOLAS, ‖ Per THEOLOGOS LOV ANIENSES non mediocri ‖ cura innumeris locis castigatus. ‖ APPENDIX eiusdem Tomi, complectens Epistolas aliquot falso ali- ‖ quando inscriptas S. Angustino, aut ad ipsum. ‖ Quid præstitum sit, docet Castigatio ad finem Tomi subiuncta, ‖ & epistola eisdem Castigationibus præposita. ‖ ⊕ 30 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [303]: A-Z⁸, a-c⁸; pages 1-414, [415-416] (Errors: 266 for 166, 82 for 282, 411 for 412). All pages on two columns, except page [415] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-370: Text (parts in italic type; marginals in roman type, italic type and greek type) 371-390: Appendix (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 391: Praefatio in subsequentes secundi tomi castigationes: Theologi Lovanienses pio lectori salutem (Louvain, 3 January 1571; italic type) 392-410: Castigationes (parts in italic type) 411-414: Index (parts in italic type) [415]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS ‖ ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ANNO DOMINI SV- ‖ PRA SESQVIMILLESIMVM SEPTVAGESIMO SEXTO, XIIII. ‖ KAL.MAIAS [416]: Blank |
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Opera, III, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS III. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ COMPLECTENS TA' ΔIΔAKTIKA': ‖ Hoc est, ‖ QVÆ PROPRIE AD DOCENDVM ‖ PERTINENT: ‖ AD veterum codicum collationem per THEOLOGOS ‖ aliquot LOVANIENSES emendatus. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [308]: A-Z⁸, a-e⁸, fⁱ⁰; pages 1-462 (= for 466), [467-468] (Errors: 425-428 twice, meaning that from 429 pagination too low with four units; 340-341 for 440-441-442; 451 for 449). All pages on two columns, except pages [2] and [467] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (italic type) 3-438: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type, italic type and greek type) 439-462 (= for 466): Variae lectiones et castigationes (parts in italic type) [467]: EXCVDEBAT ANTVERPIÆ CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ANNO DOMINI M.D. ‖ LXXVI. TERTIO NONAS ‖ APRILIS [468]: Blank |
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Opera, IV, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS IIII. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ COMPLECTENS RELIQVA ‖ TΩN ΔIΔAKTIKΩN: ‖ PER THEOLOGOS LOVANIENSES ab innumeris mendis repurgatus. ‖ Cum Appendice eiusdem Tomi. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D. LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [309]: A-Z⁸, a-k⁸, I⁶, m⁴; pages 1-547, [548]. All pages on two columns, except page [2] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (italic type) 3-416: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type capitals and italic type) 417-531: Appendix (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 532-547: Notae sive recognitiones (parts in italic type) 547: ANTVERPIAE EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO DOMINI M.D. LXXVI. XI. KALEND. ‖ OCTOBRIS [548]: Blank |
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Opera, V, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS V. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ DE CIVITATE DEI, ‖ LIBROS XXII. CONTINENS: ‖ EX vetustissimis MS. exemplaribus per THEOLOGOS ‖ LOVANIENSES ab innumeris mendis repurgatus. ‖ Quorum diligentiam attestatur sub finem Tomi, castigationum ratio, ‖ & lectionum varietas, maiori ex parte annotata. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI |
| Collation | Folio [307]: A-Z⁸, a-d⁸, *-**⁶; pages 1-432, [433-456] (Errors: 780 for 380). All pages on two columns, except pages 325-326 and [433-454] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 5 October 1575, signed by J. Blyleven) [3]: Argumentum (marginals in italic type) [4]: Table (italic type) 5-312: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type; each book preceded by an Elenchus capitum in italic type) 313-323: Castigationes (roman type and italic type) [324]: Blank 325-432: Appendix tomi quinti Operum B. Augustini, complectens Joannis Lodovici Vivis commentarios in libros De Civitate Dei, nonnullis tamen omissis ex censura facultatis Theologicae Lovaniensis (parts and marginals in italic type and greek type) [433-453]: Index (on three columns, parts in greek type) [454]: EXCVDEBAT ANTVERPIAE CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ VIII. ID. IVNII, ANNO M.D.LXXVI [455-456]: Blank |
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Opera, VI, 1577.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS VI. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ CONTINENS TA' ΠOΛEMIKA': ‖ Hoc est, DECERTATIONES ADVERSVS HÆRESES, ‖ præcipué Iudæorum, Manichæorum, Priscillianistarum, ‖ Origenistarum, Arrianorum, & Iouiniani: ‖ NVNC multis in locis summo studio emendatus, per ‖ THEOLOGOS LOVANIENSES. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [310]: A-Z⁸, a⁸; pages 1-383, [384] (Errors: 30 for 28). All pages on two columns, except page [2] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (italic type) 3-370: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type, italic type and greek type) 371-383: Castigationes (parts in italic type) 383: ANTVERPIÆ EXCV DEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO MILLESIMO, QVINGENTESIMO, SE- ‖ PTVAGESIMOSEXTO, IPSIS NONIS IANVA- ‖ RIIS [384]: Blank |
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Opera, VII, 1576 (1577).
| Title page transcription | TOMVS VII. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ CONTINENS RELIQVAM PARTEM ‖ TΩN ΠOΛEMIKΩN, IN ALIAS ‖ duas diuisam; quarum priore aduersus Donatistas, ‖ posteriore contra Pelagianos dimicat. ‖ VNA CVM APPENDICE PSEVDEPIGRAPHORVM. ‖ NVNC demùm post varias editiones ad complurium MS. fidem a non paucis ‖ mendarum milibus incredibili labore expurgatus: id quod ex subiectis ad ‖ calcem Castigationibus & Scholiis facile cognosci poterti. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [308]: A-Z⁸, a-q⁸; pages 1-621, [622-624] (Errors: 122 for 120, 167 for 197, 25 for 255, 165 for 265, 287-288 for 277-278, 293-294 for 283-284, 456 for 464). All pages on two columns, except pages [2] and [622] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (italic type) 3-621: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [622]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHO- ‖ RVS PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS ‖ REGIVS, ANNO DOMINI M.D.LXXVII. ‖ KALENDIS MARTII [623-624]: Blank |
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Opera, VII bis, 1577.
| Title page transcription | ANNOTATIONES ‖ IN TOMVM VII. ‖ B. AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS ‖ EPISCOPI, ‖ QVIBVS CASTIGATIONVM RATIO VARIETASQVE ‖ lectionum indicatur, res memoratu dignæ obseruantur, obscu- ‖ riora difficilioràque loca explicantur & illustrantur. ‖ ⊕ 31 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. |
| Collation | Folio [310]: aa-nn⁸, oo⁴; Columns 1-316, [317-320]. All pages on two columns (and numbered by column), except Columns [1-4] |
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| Pages | [1-2]: Title [3-4]: Studiosi lectori signed by (italic type) 5-316: Text (roman type and italic type) 315-316: Errata (roman type and italic type) [317-320]: Blank |
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Opera, VIII, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS VIII. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ CONTINENS ENARRATIONES ‖ IN PSALMOS: ‖ Operâ THEOLOGORVM LOVANIENSIVM ‖ ad MS. exemplaria castigatus. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [309]: A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, AA⁶; pages 1-747, [748] (Errors: 725-726 for 735-736). All pages on two columns, except page [2] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Note on volume VIII (parts in italic type) 3-719: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 720-747: Castigationes et variae lectiones (parts in italic type) 747: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTO- ‖ PHORVS PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPO- ‖ GRAPHVS REGIVS, ANNO DOMINI ‖ M.D.LXXVI [748]: Blank |
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Opera, IX, 1576 (1577).
| Title page transcription | TOMVS IX. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ CONTINENS ILLIVS TRACTATVS: ‖ HOC EST, ‖ EXPOSITIONES AD POPVLVM ‖ factas in nouum Testamentum, cum ‖ aliis varij generis opusculis: ‖ A THEOLOGIS aliquot LOVANIENSIBVS diligenter ‖ emendatus ex collatione MS. codicum. ‖ Qui etiam notha, seu falso beato Augustino inscripta, ‖ in Appendicem retulerunt. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [309]: A-Z⁸, a-h⁸, i⁴, aA-iI⁶, A-T⁶, V⁴, a-c⁶, d⁸; pages I-502, [503-504]; Columns I-214, [215-216]; pages [I-284] (Errors: 45 for 451; Columns 5-6-7-8, 17-18-19-20 not numbered) |
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| Pages | [I]: Title [2]: Table (italic type) 3-456: Text (on two columns, parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 457-502: Castigationes et variae lectiones (on two columns, parts in italic type) [503]: ANTVERPIAE EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO DOMINI M.D.LXXVI. IX. KALEND. ‖ DECEMBRIS [504]: Blank; Columns [I-2]-214: Indices (on two columns, within double or single rules, parts in italic type) [215-216]: Blank; pages [I-282]: Indices (on three columns, except pages 277-280: on two columns; parts in italic type) [282]: ANTVERPIÆ, EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO M.D.LXXVII. MENSE SEPTEMBRI [283-284]: Blank |
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Opera, X, 1576.
| Title page transcription | TOMVS X. OPERVM ‖ D. AVRELII ‖ AVGVSTINI ‖ HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI, ‖ CONTINENS SERMONES AD ‖ POPVLVM ET CLERVM: ‖ Vetustissimorum exemplarium subsidio per THEOLOGOS ‖ LOV ANIENSES emendatus, & multorum Sermonum ‖ accessione auctus. ‖ Cum Appendice eiusdem Tomi, quæ est aliorum auctorum. ‖ ⊕ 24 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regii. ‖ M.D.LXXVI. |
| Collation | Folio [310]: A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, Aaⁱ⁰; pages 1-754, [755-756] (Errors: 558 for 548, 613 for 629, 614 for 630, 619-620 for 635-636, 964 for 664, 726 ?). All pages on two columns, except pages [2] and [755] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table; Note on volume X (italic type) 3-754: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [755]: ANTVERPIAE EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO DOMINI M.D.LXXVI. XI. KALEND. ‖ SEPTEMBRIS [756]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Frontispiece, 345 × 205 (within a richly wrought border St. Augustinus working in his study) 2) Title-page, 350 × 225 (richly decorated border, with cut-out parts for the typographically printed parts). According to the Plantinian records (see Notes) designed by Crispin van den Broeck; engraver(s) unknown |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 274 - of volume 1: pages 167-170 missingKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeRoyal Library of San Lorenzo de El EscorialBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaUtrecht University LibraryLeiden University Libraries - volume 5 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 175-179 (1577, no. 2) Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3548 (only volume 5: University Library Leiden) |
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| Note 1 | Edition of the works of St. Augustinus in 10 volumes, with an introductory volume. Contains: VOL. I: Retractationum libri II (3-28), Confessionum libri XIII (28-100), De grammatica liber I (100-111), Principia dialecticae (111-116), Categoriae decem (117-128), Principia rhetorices (128-132), De musica libri VI (233[for 133] -175), Contra academicos libri III (175-195), De ordine libri II (195-211), De vita beata (212-218), Soliloquiorum libri II (219-232), De magistro (232-242), De immortalitate animae (242-247), De quantitate animae (248-265), De libero arbitrio libri III (265-299), De vera religione (299-318), De moribus ecclesiae catholicae (319-332), De moribus Manichaeorum (332-344), De Genesi contra Manichaeos libri II (345-363), Regula Augustini (363-365); Appendix (complectens quaedam falso ipsius nomine in primo tomo antea edita): Regulae clericis traditae fragmentum (366), Regula secundum (366-367), De vita eremitica ad sororem (367-375). VOL. II: Letters, 1-270 (pages 3-370); Appendix (complectens epistolas aliquot, quae aliquando falso impressae fuerunt nomine S. Augustini, aut sub aliorum nominibus ad ipsum): 19 letters (371-390). VOL. III: De doctrina christiana libri IIII (3-40), Locutionum libri VII (41-60), De fide et symbolo liber I (61-66), Enchiridion ad Laurentium liber I (66-85), De Trinitate libri XV (85-188), De Genesi ad literam, imperfectus, liber I (188-197), De Genesi ad literam libri XII (198-285), De agone christiano liber I (286-292), De opere monachorum liber I (293-304), De spiritu et litera, ad Marcellinum (305-320), De divinatione daemonum (321-324), Speculum (324-379); Appendix (continens ea quae falso antea in hoc tomo fuerunt nomine beati Augustini): De ecclesiasticis dogmatibus (380-384), De fide ad Petrum diaconum liber I, authore S. Fulgentio (384-394), De mirabilibus sacrae Scripturae libri III (394-410), De spiritu et anima liber I (410-425), Quaestiunculae de Trinitate (426-427), De benedictionibus Iacob patriarchae (427-428), Sententiae Prosperi Aquitanici (428-438). VOL. IV: De mendacio ad Consentium liber I (3-13), Contra mendacium ad eundem liber I (14-24), De fide et operibus liber I (25-36), Quaestionum libri VII (36-141), Quaestionum Evangelicarum libri II (141-155), Quaestionum Evangelicarum secundum Matthaeum liber I (156-159), De consensu Evangelistarum libri IV (160-229), Octogintratium quaestionum liber I (229-263), De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum libri II (264-280), De octo Dulcitii quaestionibus liber I (280-288), De cura pro mortuis gerenda, ad Paulinum liber I (288-294), De catechizandis rudibus liber I (295-308), De continentia liber I (308-316), De patientia liber I (316-321), De bono sive perfectione viduitatis ad Julianam viduam liber I (321-328), De sermone Domini in monte libri II (329-359), Expositionis epistolae Pauli ad Romanos inchoatae liber I (360-366), Expositionis quarundan propositionum ex epistola ad Romanos liber I (367-376), Expositionis epistolae Pauli ad Galatas liber I (376-393), Annotationum in Job liber I (393-416); Appendix (continens D. Angustino aliquando falso inscripta): Vigintiunius sententiarum sive quaestionum liber I (417-420), Quaestionum LXV dialogus (420-426), Quaestionum Veteris et Novi Testamenti liber I (426-491), De Incarnatione Verbi libri II (492-497), De Trinitate et Unitate Dei liber I (497-503), De essentia Divinitatis liber I (504-507), De fide rerum invisibilium liber I (507-509), De substantia dilectionis et amoris liber I (510-511), De vera et falsa poenitentia liber I (511-517), De salutaribus documentis liber I (518-527), De amicitia liber I (528-531). VOL. V: De Civitate Dei (5-312). VOL. VI: 4 letters, two from and two to Augustinus, on heresies and heretics (3-4), De haeresibus ad Quodvult Deum liber I (5-15), De quinque haeresibus oratio (15-23), Concio ad catechumenos contra Judaeos, paganos et Arrianos (23-29), Oratio adversus Judaeos (30-34), De utilitate credendi, ad Honoratum liber I (34-45), Contra epistolam Manichaei quam vocant Fundamentum liber I (45-57), De duabus animabus, contra Manichaeos, liber I (58-65), Contra Fortunatum quendam Manichaeorum presbyterum liber I (65-71), Contra Adimantum Manichaei discipulum liber I (72-88), Adversus Faustum Manichaeum libri XXXIII (89-205), De actis cum Felice Manichaeo liber I (206-219), Contra Secundinum Manichaeum liber I (219-228), De natura boni, contra Manichaeos liber I (228-235), De fide, sive de unitate Trinitatis contra Manichaeos liber I (236-242), Contra adversarium Legis et Prophetarum liber I (243-266), Contra Priscillanistas et Origenistas, ad Orosium liber I (267-271), Sermo Arrianorum (272-273), Contra sermonem Arrianorum liber I (274-283), Contra Maximinum Arrianorum episcopum liber I (283-323), Contra Felicianum Arrianum de unitate Trinitatis ad Optatum liber I (323-330), De bono coniugali, contra Jovinianum liber I (330-338), De sancta virginitate (338-350), De adulterinis coniugiis, ad Pollentium, libri II (350-362), De Epicureis et stoicis tractatus I (363-365), De eo quod dictum est a Deo ad Moysen, Ego sum qui sum (365-367), Appendix: De altercatione ecclesiae et synagogae dialogus (367-370). VOL. VII: A. Libri contra Donatistas: Psalmus contra partem Donati (3-5), Contra epistolam Parmeniani Donatistarum episcopi libri III (6-32), De baptismo contra Donatistas libri VII (32-82), De unico baptismo contra Petilianum Donatistarum episcopum liber I (82-88), Contra litera eiusdem Petiliani libri III (89-140), De unitate ecclesiae contra eiusdem Petiliani epistolam liber I (141-161), Contra Cresconium grammaticum libri IV (161-215), Breviculus collationum cum Donastis (215-229), Epistola nomine Cirtensis Concilii ad Donatistas (230-232), Post collationem ad Donatistas liber I (232-246), Sermo ad plebem Ecclesiae Caesariensis de Emerito (247-249), De gestis cum eodem Emerito Caesariensi Donatistarum episcopo liber I (250-253), Contra duas epistolas Gaudentii Donatistarum Thamugadensis episcopi libri II (254-271), Appendix: Contra Fulgentium Donatistam incerti authoris liber I (271-276). B. Quae agit contra Pelagianos: De peccatorum meritis et remissione ad Marcellinum libri III (287 [= for 277] -309), De natura et gratia, ad Timasium et Iacobum contra Pelagianos liber I (310-324), De gratia Christi et de peccato originali contra Pelagium et Celestium libri II (325-342), De nuptiis et concupiscentia ad Valerium comitem libri II (343-364), Contra Julianum Pelagianum libri VI (365-450), Contra duas epistolas Pelagianorum ad Bonifacium Romanae urbis episcopum libri IV (450-480), De anima et eius origine libri IV (481-508), De perfectione justitiae contra Celestium liber I (508-516), De gratia et libero arbitrio ad Valentinum et cum illo monachos liber I (517-528), Duae epistolae ad eundem (528-530), De correptione et gratia ad eundem liber I (531-541), Epistolae II ad Augustinum, altera Prosperii, altera Hilarii de reliquiis Pelagianae hereseos (542-546), De praedestinatione sanctorum ad eosdem liber I (546-557), De dono perseverentiae ad eosdem liber I (558-572). Appendix: D. Prosperi Regiensis episcopi adversus calumniatores doctrinae B. Augustini de gratia Dei, responsionum libri IV (573-594), Celestini pontificis Romani pro B. Angustino ad episcopos Galliarum epistola (594-595), Concilium Arausicanum secundum adversus reviviscentes per Gallias Pelagianae haereseos errores (595-597), Contra Pelagianos Hypognosticon incerti authoris libri VI (597-616), De praedestinatione et gratia suspecti authoris liber (616-620), De praedestinatione Dei eiusdem farinae opusculum seu fragmentum (620-621). VOL. VIII: Enarrationes in Psalmos (3-719). VOL. IX: In Evangelium Joannis exposito (3-235), In epistolam Joannis exposito (235-268), De decem chordis liber I (268-274), Sermo seu tractatus de pastoribus (274-283), Sermo sive tractatus de ovibus (283-291), De symbolo vel regula fidei ad catechumenos libri IV (291-310), Tractatus de diversis XIV (310-333: 1. De disciplina christiana; 2. De cantico novo; 3. De quarta feria; 4. De cataclysmo; 5. De tempore barbarico; 6. De quatuor virtutibus charitatis; 7. De laudibus charitatis; 8. De honestate mulierum; 9. De convenientia 10 praeceptorum et 10 plagarum; 10. De utilitate jejunii; 11. De urbis excidio; 12. De pugna animae; 13. De utilitate poenitentiae; 14. Psalterium quod matri composuit), Liber meditationum (334-352). Appendix (continens ea quae constat beati Augustini non esse, etsi in eius tomo nono extare soleant): In Apocalypsin Joannis expositio (352-367), De diligendo Deo liber, qui et meditationum inscribitur (367-372), Soliloquiorum animae ad Deum liber I (373-385), Manuale (385-391), Tractatus XXIV de diversis (391-456: 1. De triplici habitaculo; 2. Scala paradisi; 3. De duodecim abusionum gradibus; 4. De contritione cordis; 5. De cognitione verae vitae; 6. De speculo; 7. De vita christiana; 8. De assumptione Mariae; 9. De contemptu mundi; 10. De vanitate seculi; 11. De obedientia et humilitate; 12. De bono disciplinae; 13. De visitatione infirmorum; 14. De eadem; 15. De consolatione mortuorum; 16. De eadem; 17. De sobrietate et virginitate; 18. Speculum peccatoris; 19. De conflictu virtutum et vitiorum; 20. De rectitudine catholicae conversationis; 21. De creatione primi hominis; 22. De arbore scientiae boni et mali; 23. De antichristo; 24. Super Magnificat). Indices: refer to volumes I-IX. VOL. X: Sermones de verbis Domini (3-92), Sermones de verbis Apostoli (93-155), Homiliae L (156-208), Homiliae de Tempore (208-403), Homiliae de Sanctis (404-431), Sermones septemdecim a Parisiensibus additi (431-445), Sermonum de diversis partes duae per Lovanienses additae (446-614), Fragmenta quaedam (615-613 [= for 629]). Appendix: Avitus, Lucianus et Evodius, de revelatione Stephani protomartyris (614 [= for 630] -640), Appendix sermonum de diversis (641-711), Sermones ad Fratres in eremo commorantes et quosdam alios (712-753), De vita, conversatione ac morte Sanctae Monicae, matris beati Augustini narratio (754). |
| Note 2 | In a letter to Maximilian Morillon, 3 May 1570, Plantin tells how Thomas Gozaeus, professor in theology at Louvain University, asked him to publish the works of the churchfathers and how the printer gladly accepted (Correspondance de C. Plantin, II, no. 226). In the foreword to the first volume of the Opera S. Augustini, dated 10 September 1576, Joannes Molanus explains what happened then: Gozaeus started collating the works of St. Augustinus, but died on 8 March 1571. Joannes Molanus, successor to Gozaeus as royal censor, was asked by Plantin to continue the work. Molanus accepted to lead the enterprise, but divided the work: the collation and correction of the first volume was entrusted to Martinus Baccius (who by 1576 had become a priest at Alost); volume 2 to Jacobus Baius, president of the College of Savoie at Louvain; volume 3 to Henricus Cuyckius, professor in Ethics at Louvain; volume 4 to Embertus Everaerds, priest of the Church of St. James; volume 5 to Petrus Coretus (who by 1576 had become a professor at Crispin); volume 6 to Christophorus Broide (who by 1576 had become dean at Aire); volume 7 to Henricus Gravius, professor at Louvain; volume 8 to Claudius Porta, priest and canon at Binche; volume 9 to Guilielmus Estius; volume 10 to the canons of the St. Martin Abbey at Louvain (where Martinus Lipsius and his pupils Joannes Costerius and Joannes Vlimmerius had already worked on the subject; the latter was able to add several 'sermones' of St. Augustinus he had found in manuscripts of the Cambron Abbey). Molanus reserved for himself the verification of the authenticity of the works attributed to St. Augustinus ('Illud autem mihi reservavi, singulis ut Augustini libris, quod in manuscripts observatum est, retractationem ipsius, aut, si ea deesset, brevem censuram multorum theologorum sententia confirmatam praemitterem. Quae vero manifeste deprehensa constat Augustini non esse, ea praemissis censuris in Appendice sui tomi reponenda censui'). Molanus took care to have his work verified by the professors Henricus Gravius and Laurentius Westerhovius. What Molanus didn't tell was that the making of the monumental indices (in volume 9) was commissioned by Plantin to Father David Regius, of the Bogards at Antwerp. Some brief remarks on the work on St. Augustinus by J. Vlimmerius (and Martinus Lipsius) and E. Everaerds in H. de Vocht, History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, III, 1954, pages 74-75, and IV, 1955, page 479. |
| Note 3 | The theologians in charge of the gigantic work collated and verified hundreds of manuscripts. Molanus in his foreword speaks of 30 manuscripts from the library of the Abbey of Gembloux, 30 from Cambron Abbey, 20 from Aulne Abbey, 8 from Floreffe Abbey, 31 from St. Martin at Tournai, 32 from St. Amand Abbey, besides an unspecified number from Louvain institutions (Theology College; Jesuits; Carthusians; Park Abbey; St. Martin; Bethlehem). Joannes Gravius sent a manuscript with letters of St. Augustinus from Rome (see also the letter of Plantin to Gravius, 1 January 1575: Correspondance de C. Plantin, IV, no. 599). |
| Note 4 | According to Rooses, M. Musée Plantin-Moretus, pages 216-217, the actual printing started on 2 May 1575. At first one compositor worked on the job; a second joined him in June, a third and a fourth in July, a fifth and a sixth in October; the work was printed by two 'pressiers' (two presses? or one press worked by two men?). Rooses very likely compiled these details from Arch. 32 (Livre des Ouvriers, 1571-79); when he adds that the first six volumes were finished at the end of 1575 he must refer to a passage in a letter from Plantin to Arias Montanus, December 1575 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 687). In fact the printing schedule has been somewhat different. In the agreement with Mylius, 20 January 1575 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, IV, no. 604), Plantin promised to start the work with 4 presses (meaning the collaboration of at least 8 compositors) in April; and in a letter of 20 April 1575 he actually declared he was busy with 4 presses on the job (Correspondance de C. Plantin, IV, no. 621). In the colophons of most of the volumes is stated when they finished: vol. 2 on 18 April 1576, volume 3 on 3 April 1576, volume 4 on 21 September 1576, volume 5 on 6 June 1576, volume 6 on 5 January 1576 (= an error for 1577), volume 7 on 1 March 1577, volume 8 in 1576 (without further specification), volume 9 (first part) on 23 November 1576, volume 10 on 22 August 1576. The introductory volume must have been achieved after 19 February 1577 (date of the Parisian privilege). Not a single volume, consequently, had left the presses at the end of 1575: what Plantin probably meant in his letter to Arias Montanus was that six volumes were well advanced, not that they were already printed. The Indices (second part of volume 9) were the last part to be finished (September 1577): David Regius had not been very quickly on the job, as Joannes Moretus complained to Mylius in November 1576 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 747). |
| Note 5 | In Arch. 9, folios 65 recto-68 recto, precious details are given about the financial side of the publication. In all 1,000 copies were printed and 250 extra-copies of volume 5 (De Civitate Dei). For the 1,000 copies 3,015 reams 11 'mains' of paper were used, which, at 50 stuivers per ream, meant an expense of 7,538 florins Carolus guilders 10½ stuivers The wages for composing and printing came to 4,052 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers (subdivided: 25 stuivers per ream for the actual texts; 35 stuivers per ream for the 'appendices' and the notes in volume 7; 38 stuivers per ream for the Indices), bringing the total to 11,900 fl 15½ stuivers - but entered by PLantin as 11,591 florins Carolus guilders 1½ stuivers The 250 extra-copies of volume 5 came to 213 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers (142 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers for the 57 reams of paper; 71 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers for the printing, at 25 stuivers per ream). Collating the copies costed 40 florins Carolus guilders, whilst 27 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers are entered for work on the premises by a carpenter. Printed copies of former editions of the works of St. Augustinus 'envoyés à Louvain pour faire la collation' were purchased for 87 florins Carolus guilders (two copies from Paris: 45 florins Carolus guilders, and two from Germany: 42 florins Carolus guilders); the privileges were paid 24 florins Carolus guilders (the two issued at Brussels 12 florins Carolus guilders together, the one issued at Paris 12 florins Carolus guilders); the total costs of the illustrations (the frontispiece and title-page in volume 1) came to 52 florins Carolus guilders (6 florins Carolus guilders to Crispin van den Broeck for the design; 36 florins Carolus guilders to the unknown engraver; 10 florins Carolus guilders for printing 1,000 copies of each engraving). The scholars working on St. Augustinus received remunerations for their expenses and work: 139 florins Carolus guilders were paid to Gozaeus and another 25 florins Carolus guilders to his heirs; the sixty 'licentiés et bacheliers' who aided in collating the manuscripts were each awarded 6 florins Carolus guilders, making 360 florins Carolus guilders; the 9 doctors in theology, responsible for the edition, were given 24 florins Carolus guilders each, making 216 florins Carolus guilders David Regius received 204 florins Carolus guilders 6½ stuivers and the three assistants who had helped him with the index 126 florins Carolus guilders 14 stuivers This came to a grand total, as entered by Plantin (he made some errors in adding the totals), of 13,005 florins Carolus guilders 11½ stuivers Not counted by Plantin in this grand total was the substantial sum of 601 florins Carolus guilders 7½ stuivers for travel expenses and the shipment of the manuscripts used for the collation. His cost-accounting note, however, was in fact made about the middle of 1577 before the complete finishing of the Indices in volume 9 and the additional notes to volume 7: the paper and printing costs for these parts have to be added. As also some additional expenses paid to Joannes Harlemius (in 1570-1572), Molanus and Vlimmerius (Arch. 16, opening 138 left and right, 178 left and right, 198 left and right; Arch. 18, opening 32 left and right, 199 left and right; cf. also Arch. 18, opening 200 left and 262 left and right; much later, on 23 March 1586, Plantin had an argument with Vlimmerius on the non-payment of certain bills to Molanus and Henricus Cuyckius: Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 1082), and his own proof-reader, A. Spithals, who had worked for 14 weeks on the Index Augustini, and, at 2 florins Carolus guilders 14 stuivers per week, received 37 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers on 20 August 1577 (Arch. 32, folio 276 recto). Plantin in his agreement with Mylius (see below) put the total expenses at 13,565 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers |
| Note 6 | For this very expensive publication Plantin made a deal with the Cologne publisher Arnold Mylius: on 20 January 1575 they agreed that the latter should take half the edition, whilst paying half of the paper and half of the printing expenses (Correspondance de C. Plantin, IV, no. 604). An amendment was made on 16 January 1576: Plantin let 100 copies to be ceded by Mylius to Geoffroy Birckman and his companions at Cologne (Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, no. 697). Mylius's part (including his extra copies of the De Civitate Dei and the 100 copies ceded to the Birckmans) amounted to 6,782 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers, which he paid in installments from 22 January 1575 till 10 December 1577 (Arch. 19, opening 69 left). It had been agreed in January 1575 that one of the two parties should distribute all the copies; in the agreement of 16 January 1576 Mylius was noted as the sole distributor, but, finally, both publishers each sold their own copies. Years later Plantin had an argument with Mylius about the St. Augustinus. The reasons for the dispute are not very clear, but in his letter of end December 1581 Plantin tells his former partner that, whilst Mylius received his due share of 500 copies, Plantin had had to bear all the losses (…'des pertes faictes audict logis ne des imperfections tant de l'imprimerie que des feilles mangees, rompues et rongees par les rats et autrement audict logis'). Investigating carefully the matter, he came to the rather astonishing conclusion that finally he had only retained for himself 390 complete copies. Climbing in person to the storage place in the attic he found some 60 reams of paper in defects, including 12 copies lacking only the Index. He had this index and some other missing sheets reprinted, at an expense of more than 100 florins Carolus guilders, in order to make an additional number of 18 complete Opera (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 970). If this statement may be taken at its face-value there must be two editions of the Index, the second one reduced to only 12 copies. |
| Note 7 | The work is dedicated by Plantin to the Italian cardinals Christophorus and Ludovicus Madrutius; on this subject cf. Correspondance de C. Plantin, V, nos. 687, 730, 738; Supplément Correspondance de C. Plantin, no. 132. |
| Note 8 | The publication is mentioned in a great number of letters and documents published in Correspondance de C. Plantin, some of which have been quoted above. The complete list reads thus: Correspondance de C. Plantin, IV, nos. 492, 570, 599, 604, 615, 621; V, nos. 655, 687, 697, 702, 704, 730, 736, 738, 745, 747, 750, 754, 765, 775, 782, 787, 796; VI, no. 858; VII, nos. 970, 1082; Supplément Correspondance de C. Plantin, nos. 132, 138. An interesting note on the edition in Rooses, M. Musée Plantin-Moretus, pages 216-217. |
| Note 9 | Listed in M 296, folio 1 recto (Augustini opera correcta etc. 1576, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 25; Augustini de Civitate Dei seorsim f⁰, 1576, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 2 stuivers 10), and M 164, folio 1 recto. |
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