| Record ID | cp011313 |
| Voet reference number | 2308 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | THEOLOGIA GERMANICA |
| Title page transcription | THEOLOGIA ‖ GERMANICA. ‖ LIBELLVS AVREVS: ‖ Hoc est, breuis & prægnans: Quomodo ‖ sit exuendus vetus homo, induen- ‖ dusq̓ue nouus. ‖ Ex Germanico translatus, IOANNE ‖ Theophilo interprete. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ 1558. ‖ Cum priuilegio. |
| Collation | 8⁰: A-H⁸; pages 1-124, [125-128] (Errors: 9 not numbered) |
| Fingerprint | 155816 - # b1 A2 icat : # b2 H5 ui$ |
| Number of sheets | 4.00 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 6 October 1557, signed by P. de Lens) 3-8: Praefatio (italic type, marginals in roman type) [9]-124: Text (marginals and parts in italic type) [125-128]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Emmanuel College Library- S. 14.5.786 |
| Bibliographical references | |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12923116 |
| Note 1 | Reprint of the real '1558'-edition. |
| Note 2 | H.D.L. Vervliet proved that La théologie germanicque printed by Plantin and showing the date of 1558 on the title-page has in fact been issued in 1579-1580 (see no. cp012971). He did not know this Latin edition, but his arguments are as valid for it as for the French publication: the printer's mark and the type used point to a much later date than 1558. Moreover, the work is listed at the date of 1578 in M 296, folio 18v ([Theologia germanica] Eadem 1578, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 1½). |
| Note 3 | It is probably this Latin (and not the French) edition which is mentioned in the curious letter Plantin wrote to (an otherwise unknown) Laurentius, 14 June 1580 (Corr., VI, no. 879). This Laurentius must have asked the typographer some pertinent questions about the Theologia Germanica. Plantin answers very carefully - so carefully that it does not become clear if he is speaking of an edition published years ago or of a publication which left his presses quite recently. Anyway, he tries to persuade his correspondent as convincingly as possible that the publication was acceptable to both Catholics and Calvinists, and that years ago he had been granted in due form the privilege to print it ('Libellum cui titulus est Theologia Germanica per theologos deputatos a Regia catholica Majestate prius approbatum et postea Privilegio Regio mihi datum impressi neque umquam intellexi quemquam theologum catholicum fuisse qui eum librum reprobaret. Ex illis autem qui Calvini dogmata sequuntur quamplurimi quare qui eum librum rem faciet ipsis gratissimam ob id maxime quod relictis propriis affectibus ad bene operandum exhortetur quo nomine ob omnibus pietatem Christianum pluris faventibus quam verba maxime semper probari intellexi. Atque quod pro duplici laude et approbationes haberi debet. Cum hic mandato Ducis Albani omnes officinae et tabernae nostrae librariae una eademque hora clauderentur ad inquirendum acerrime et visitandum num quis quid in sua officina impressisset haberetve quod vel minima haereseos suspicione contaminatum esset, is libellus ab inquisitoribus laudatus fuit, tantum abest ut inter reprobatos adscriptus fuerit. Exemplar vero Privilegii ante 23 annos mihi concessi ad te mitto una cum catalogo prohibitorum in eo acerrimo examine librorum. Nihil praeterea nunc venit in mentem quo vos scrupulo vobis injecto levare queam'). |
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