| Record ID | cp011057 |
| Voet reference number | 1433 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | HYMNI |
| Title page transcription | HYMNI ET PRO- ‖ SÆ ECCLESIASTICÆ, VVLGO ‖ SEQVENTIÆ DICTÆ, BREVIVSCVLA ‖ quidem, sed maximè commoda Hermanni ‖ Torrentini explanatione ‖ illustrati. ‖ Qui pijs & Christianis oblectan- ‖ tur canticis, his se oblectent. ‖ ⊕ VH, Silvius no. 1 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Gulielmi Sylvij Typogra- ‖ phi Regij. Anno ‖ M.D.LXII. |
| Collation | 8º [125]: A-H⁸; pages [1-128] |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-125]: Text (parts in italic type) [125]: approbation (22 February 1546, signed by Petrus Curtius, Louvain) [126]: ANTVERPIAE, EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS, ANNO ‖ M.D.LXII. DIE XXII. SEPT. ‖ V. (typographical fleuron) [127-128]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek- Lith. 625/dStaats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 6 (1562, no. 6) |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Collection of religious hymns and metric poems (in roman type), each followed by an explanation of the difficult words and sentences (in italic type). The author of the explanations is said to be Hermannus Torrentinus (perhaps to be identified with the grammarian and schoolmaster H. van Beek, of Zwolle, who taught c. 1490 in Groningen and must have died c. 1520; nothing in his known works, however, shows that he had a particular interest in religious matters; more likely is meant another Van Beek or Van der Beken, living about 1560). |
| Note 2 | Of the saints mentioned many are specific for the archbishopric of Cologne. The work even ends with 'Sequentia de patronis Coloniensium': the publication must have been conceived for Cologne (and the eastern parts of the Netherlands under the spiritual jurisdiction of Cologne). |
| Note 3 | According to the colophon the printing was finished on 22 September 1562. This poses an odd problem as earlier in that year Plantin's goods had been seized and he himself obliged to seek safety in Paris: in September 1562 the Plantin Press was idle and the typographical material sold. The date, consequently, should perhaps be changed into 22 September 1561. |
| Note 4 | RDB specifies: 'Hymni et Prosae Ecclesiasticae, vulgo Sequentiae dictae, breviuscula quidem, sed maxime commoda Hermanni Torrentini explanatione illustrati. Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1562'. This implies a title-page with Plantin's address, but the only two known copies have title-pages with Silvius's imprint. In these years, however, Plantin often printed editions in which a number of copies received a title-page with the imprint of the colleagues who took a rather large part of the edition. This was also very likely the case with the Hymni et prosae ecclesiasticae: the existence of copies with Plantin's address may be accepted. |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Hymni et prosȩ ecclesiast. in 8º, aº 1561, f[euilles] 8, [price:] stuivers 1½). |
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