| Record ID | cp011370 |
| Voet reference number | 2100 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3250362 |
| Author | Silvester PRIERIAS |
| Title page transcription | I. SYLVESTRINAE ‖ SVMMAE, QVAE SVMMA ‖ SVMMARVM MERITO ‖ NVNCVPATVR, ‖ PARS PRIMA, ‖ Ab Reuerendo patre SYLVESTRO Prierate, absolutissimo ‖ Theologo, ex sacra Prædicatorum familia, sacri Palatij ‖ magistro dignissimo edita. ‖ Cum INDICE bipartito, qui, vti Summa, ‖ bipartitus est. ‖ ⊕ 14 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXIX. |
| Collation | Folio [199]: A-Z⁸, Aa-Ii⁸; pages 1-509, [510-512] (Errors: 27 not numbered, 286 for 289, 355 for 455) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Typographus lectori (italic type, word in roman type) [3-5]: Sanctissimo D. Leoni pontifici max. frater Sylvester de Prierio…felicitatem [6]: Bibliopola lectori signed by (italic type) [7]-509: Text (on two columns; parts in italic type) [510-511]: Index (on three columns) [512]: Blank |
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| Title page transcription | II SYLVESTRINAE ‖ Summæ, nitori suo restitutæ, ‖ Pars Secunda. ‖ Ab Reuerendo Patre SYLVESTRO Prierate, absolutissi- ‖ mo Theologo, ex sacra Prædicatorum familia, sacri Pa- ‖ latij magistro dignissimo edita. Cum ARGVMENTIS ‖ huic postremæ editioni additis, ac INDICE bipartito, ‖ qui, vti Summa, bipartitus est. ‖ Omnia, collatis veteribus exemplaribus, multò, quàm ‖ antehac, castigatiora. ‖ ⊕ 14 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXIX. |
| Collation | Folio [199]: a-z⁸, aa-kk⁸, [ll]; pages 1-528, [529-532] (Errors: 20-21 for 18-19, 135 for 235, 224 for 244, 245 ?, 274 for 376, 276 for 376, 373 for 473) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-528: Text (on two columns; parts in italic type) [529]: Sequitur tabula doctorum sacrae theologiae, et utriusque iuris in hanc summam allegatorum, nomina continens (on four columns; parts in italic type) [530-531]: Index (on four columns) [532]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | Four woodcuts in vol. 2, illustrating problems of relationship and consanguinity in the entry on Matrimony: three rather crude on pages 196 (c. 80 × 82), 200 (85 × 85), 211 (c. 82 × 122), and one more elaborate on page 191 (Arbor consanguinitatis: 142 × 142). Executed by Antoon van Leest (see Notes) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 351: complete - R 8.24: with corrections and additions on title-page and page [2] of vol. 1 - in vol. 1, pages 5-12 and 497 ff., and in vol. 2, pages 497 ff. missingMajor Seminary Ten Duinen BrugesBibliothèques de l'UMONS |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 89 (1569, no. 6) |
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| Note 1 | A 'summa' of theology, more especially regarding the sins and cases of conscience, in the form of a dictionary with the entries in alphabetical order, in two volumes (I.: letters A-H; II.: letters I-Z). |
| Note 2 | Reprint of earlier editions (the editio princeps was issued in Bologna, 1515, in 2 vols. in 4⁰, and often reprinted), but with some changes. According to the note of the typographer to the reader in vol. I, page [2], the text was corrected and amended by the publisher, i.e. Plantin ('…Nam praeter innumeros locos mutilatos & confusos, qui a nobis summa diligentia restituti sunt. Argumenta quoque singulis titulis praefixa, tibi summopere profutura exhibemus'). Who did the editing is not specified. |
| Note 3 | The publication was somewhat forced upon Plantin by Cardinal Granvelle, residing then in Italy. Cf. the letter of Plantin to Granvelle, 22 October 1568 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, II, no. 155: '…je commence l'impression de Summa Silvestrina'; somewhat further in the letter Plantin explains that, having started printing the new breviary, he had been warned that his text contained faults and omissions, so that he stopped the production ''et [his employees] recommenceront à poursuivre la Summa Sylvestrina entrelaissée, laquelle nous espérons avoir achevé dedans quelque 2 mois'); Granvelle to Plantin, 19 November 1568 (Supplément Correspondance de C. Plantin, no. 78: 'La Sylvestrine sera oeuvre prouffictable, et me ferez plaisir de m'en imprimer trois exemplaires en bon papier de Francfort, pour mes librairies'); Plantin to Granvelle, 10 December 1568 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, II, no. 159: 'J'auray, dieu aidant, achevé Summa Sylvestrina ceste semaine prochaine'); Plantin to Granvelle, 31 December 1568 (Ibidem,no. 163: 'J'ay achevé la Sylvestrine et empacqué une…'); Granvelle to Plantin, 5 February 1569 (Supplément Correspondance’ de C. Plantin, no. 81: 'J'attendray…celluy [the copy shipped by Plantin] de la Sylvestrine…'); Granvelle to Plantin, 17 March 1569 (Ibidem, no. 84: the Cardinal thought that the copy of the 'Sylvestrine' would soon arrive). |
| Note 4 | The edition was reprinted by the firm Bellerus, Antwerp, in 1578 or 1581. |
| Note 5 | The illustrations were cut by Antoon van Leest, who was paid, on 11 December 1568, 30 stuivers for '3 figures de S. Silvester' and 2 florins Carolus guilders for 'Item l'arbre de consanguinitté dud[ict] Summa Silvestrina' (Arch. 31, folio 65 recto). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 17 verso (Summa Sylvestrina, A⁰ -, f[euilles] --, [price:] stuivers 35). |
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