| Record ID | cp011356 |
| Voet reference number | 2278 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:973087 |
| Author | Caius Cornelius TACITUS |
| Title page transcription | C. CORNELII ‖ TACITI ‖ OPERA OMNIA ‖ QVÆ EXSTANT. ‖ Quorum index pagina sequenti. ‖ I. LIPSIVS denuò castigauit, ‖ & recensuit. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXI. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [130]: *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-o⁸, p⁴, *⁸; pages [1-16], 1-600, [601-616] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Table (parts in italic type) [3-4]: Iustus Lipsius Christophoro Plantino signed by dico [5-9]: Imp. Caesari Maximiliano II…Iustus Lipsius…(italic type, parts in roman type) [10-13]: C. Cor. Taciti vita…(line in italic type) [14-16]: Veterum scriptorum de Tacito testimonia vel eiusdem fragmenta (parts in italic type) 1-600: Text (page 525: Dedicatory to Io. Sambucus, in italic type; marginals in roman type and italic type) [601-613]: Index (on two columns) [614]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTO- ‖ PHORVS PLANTINVS, ARCHITY- ‖ POGRAPHVS REGIVS, MENSE ‖ FEBRVARIO ANNI M.D.LXXXI [615-616]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- 8 - 391University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBiblioteca Nacional de PortugalMazarine, Paris- with annotations by M.A. Muretus: cf. J. Ruysschaert, 'Une édition de Tacite de Juste Lipse, avec annotations de Muret' |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 224 (1581, no. 9) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), V, pages 290-291 |
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| Note 1 | Contains: Annales (pages 1-332), Historiae (pages 333-524), Germania (pages 526-545), Agricola (pages 546-569), Dialogus Quinctiliani (pages 570-600). |
| Note 2 | Revised version of the 1574-edition. Without the Notae, which - completely rewritten - were published separately as a Liber commentarius (see under J. Lipsius, no. cp011260). |
| Note 3 | The colophon gives February 1581 as the date of issue. In fact, Plantin wrote already to A. Grapheus on 20 January 1581 (Corr., VI, no. 906): 'Cornelii Taciti nuper alteram editionem Lipsij nostri absolvi, hujus commentaria in eundem auctorem sudant sub praelo'. The edition was on sale at the Frankfurt Fair in Lent 1581. The Liber commentarius was finished late March or early April 1581 and appeared only in the Frankfurt September Fair of that year (cf. no. 1561 and J. Ruysschaert, Juste Lipse et les Annales de Tacite, page 11). |
| Note 4 | J. Ruysschaert, op. cit., pages 11-12, supposes that the Opera was printed at a still earlier date, even as early as 1576. In fact, the actual printing of the work or of a large part of the work has to be situated in the second half of 1579: in a letter to Buyssetius of 10 December 1579 Plantin noted, among the works he was printing, 'Cornelius Tacitus rursus a Lipsio annotatus' (Corr., VI, no. 851). It may be assumed that the revised text of Tacitus's Opera was already ready in 1576, but that Plantin postponed the publication, awaiting the new revised Notae. Lipsius worked longer at it than anticipated. In 1579 Plantin thought to receive them soon and started printing the Opera. He had, however, to wait for another year for the Liber commentarius and finally decided to go ahead with the publication and sale of the Opera before having finished the Liber commentarius. |
| Note 5 | This fact can explain why M 321 (= catalogue of Plantin's editions printed between 1580-1590) notes the Liber commentarius but not the Opera. It does not explain, however, why the edition is not entered in M 296 (= general catalogue of Plantin's publications). |
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