| Record ID | cp011260 |
| Voet reference number | 1561 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:971865 |
| Author | Justus LIPSIUS (LIPS) |
| Title page transcription | IVSTI LIPSI ‖ AD ‖ ANNALES ‖ CORN. TACITI ‖ LIBER ‖ COMMENTARIVS, ‖ SIVE NOTÆ. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXI. |
| Collation | 8º [131]: *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-i⁸; pages [1-16], 1-481, [482-512] (Errors: 257 for 357) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-8]: Ordinibus Bataviae, I. Lipsius dedicat consecratque [9-11]: Ad lectorem (italic type) [12-16]: Poems in honour of Justus Lipsius by Ianus Lernutius, Nic. Dalius I.C. Ultraiect., I. Grotius (italic type) 1-481: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type, italic type, and greek type) [482-487]: Poems in honour of J. Lipsius and Tacitus by Gaspar Schuermannus, Franciscus Modius, Ianus Gulielmus (italic type, words in roman type) [488-509]: Index (on two columns) [510]: Errata (parts in italic type) [511-512]: Blank. - On separate sheet (395 × 305): STEMMA AVGVSTÆ DOMVS (in form of table; parts in italic type; dedicated to Ianus Lernutius) |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut: small illustration, on page 79, with two views of a Roman ring |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1719- 8-391KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBibliothèques de l'UMONSUtrecht University Library |
| Bibliographical references | Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 1077 |
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| Note 1 | Historical and critical comment on a particular work of Tacitus, the Annales. The publication accompanied the 1581-edition of Tacitus's Opera by J. Lipsius (see no. cp011356), but formed a separate work. |
| Note 2 | Lipsius had initially the intention to make a Liber commentarius on the whole of Tacitus's Opera. Already in 1576 Plantin stated in some letters (Suppl. Corr., no. 121: 13 January 1576, to Camerarius; Ibidem, no. 125: 10 February 1576, to Pithou) that the comment was ready to be published and that he would shortly print it. It is known that Lipsius worked hard on it in 1579-1580, but the task was more difficult than he had anticipated and probably pressed by his publisher (who had already printed as early as 1579 the text of Tacitus's Opera) he finally contented himself with commenting one particular work, the Annales (cf. J. Ruysschaert, Juste Lipse et les Annales de Tacite, pages 11-12). |
| Note 3 | Whilst the text of the Opera was already circulating in January 1581, the Liber commentarius was only completed in late March or early April 1581. On 22 March 1581 Plantin wrote to Melissus that he hoped to finish the Commentaria Lipsii in Annales Taciti within a few days (Corr., VI, no. 924), whilst on 19 April 1581 he could mail two copies to Camerarius (Ibidem, no. 926) (Cf. also Ruysschaert, op. cit., pages 11-12). |
| Note 4 | The text-edition of the 1581 Tacitus-edition is not entered in the Plantinian catalogues, but the Liber commentarius figures in M 164, folio 6v, M 296, folio 3v, and M 321, folio 2r (price: 10 stuivers; the number of f[euilles] is given as 34 in Ms. 164 and M 296, left open in M 321). |
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