| Record ID | cp011102 |
| Voet reference number | 56A |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | AMBROSIUS |
| Title page transcription | VOLVMEN ‖ HOMILIARVM ‖ E SANCTI AMBROSII ‖ EPISCOPI ET DOCTORIS ‖ LIBRIS CONTEXTVM, ‖ OPERA ET STVDIO ‖ Stephani Leinatii, presbyteri Mediolanensis, & ‖ Ecclesiæ S. Mariæ ad Fulcorinum Praepositi; ‖ VSVI ‖ S. MEDIOLANENSIS ECCLESIÆ ‖ ACCOMMODATVM: ‖ Ad Amplissimum & Optimum S.R.E. ‖ Cardinalem, ‖ CAROLVM BORRHOMÆVM, ‖ Archiepiscopum Mediolani. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXV. |
| Collation | Folio [265]: *⁸, **⁶, A-Z⁶, a-z⁶, Aa-Ll⁶; pages [1-28], 1-681, [682-684] |
| Fingerprint | 157502 - # a1 *2 qu : # a2 2*4 ediola - # 1b1 A m : # 1b2 Z4 od$ - # 2b1 a $ : # 2b2 z4 lit,$ - # 3b1 2A :$ : # 3b2 2L4 ue$ossi |
| Number of sheets | 178 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 30 November 1573, signed by I. de Perre) [3-28]: Amplissimo…S.R.E. Cardinali, Carolo Borrhomaeo…P. Galesinius, protonotarius apostolicus, S.D 1-4: Christianis lectoribus Benedictus Arias Montanus (Antwerp, 16 August 1574; italic type) 5-681: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in italic type and roman type) [682-683]: Index (on three columns; italic type) [683]: Approbations (Milan, 29 December 1564, s. M. Episc. Segobiensis; Antwerp, s. Henricus Zibertus Dungen; Brussels, 16 November 1573, s. B. Arias Montanus) [684]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | V. on title-page: woodcut, showing the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Carolus Borromeus |
| Copies | Leiden University Libraries - 547 A15CambridgeVatican Apolstolic LibraryMuseum Plantin-Moretus - Arch. 1228, folio 43 verso: only title-page - Arch. 1230, folios 696-705, pages 1-16, 325-326, 335-336 |
| Bibliographical references | Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3516Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5056 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV 12921524USTC 411976STCV c:stcv:12917354 |
| Note 1 | The work has been issued with two different title-pages. The reason is not quite clear. Variant B (see following no.) is more sober; Variant A (as described here) presents an homage to Carolus Borromeus and specifies that the work is more specifically interesting for the Archbishopric of Milan. It must be emphasized that the privilege, Brussels, 30 November 1573, on page [2], lists the title of the work as 'Volumen homiliarum e sancti Ambrosii episc. et Doct. libris contextum, opera et studio Stephani Leinatii, Presb. Med. etc.' being the title as given in Variant A. May be part of the edition was already printed with the more simple title (Variant B), when someone (Arias Montanus?) dicovered that a mistake had been made and ordered that the remaining part of the edition should receive the more elaborate title (Variant A). It is also possible and in fact more likely that only the relatively small number of copies to be shipped to Italy received the title-page with the tribute to Carolus Borromeus and the specification about the Archbishopric of Milan (Variant A), whilst the copies to be marketed in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain, had the more simple and for the sale in these countries less restricting version (Variant B). |
| Note 2 | Homilies for the Gospels of the year as used in the churches of the Archbishopric of Milan ('iuxta ritum Mediolanensem'), compiled from the writings of St. Ambrosius by Stephanus Leinatius, priest and praepositus of the church of St. Maria ad Fulcorinum (or St. Maria Castanniola) at Milan: each missa has its homily taken from St. Ambrosius (in italic type), followed by lengthy explanations by Leinatius. |
| Note 3 | In his foreword Arias Montanus gives interesting details about the genesis of the work: thirteen years before (in 1561), when going to the Council of Trent with his friend Martinus de Ayala, later Bishop of Segovia and Archbishop of Valencia, Arias met in Milan Leinatius and saw already part of the work, which greatly impressed him. Returning to Italy and Rome (April-December 1572: to obtain the papal authorization for the Polyglot Bible) he paid a visit to Leinatius, heard that the work was finished and asked and obtained the permission of the author to have it printed at Antwerp by Plantin. Arias when in Rome obtained also the authorization of Cardinal Carolus Borromeus, Archbishop of Milan, Leinatius's superior, who agreed at the same time to send a copy of the manuscript to Antwerp. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 8 verso (Homiliarium Ambrosianum, in f⁰ a⁰ 74, f[euilles] 178, [price:] 2 flor.). |
| Note 5 | In 1642 the Plantin Press still had a stock left of 140 copies (cf. L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, page 460). |
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