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De visibili monarchia ecclesiae libri VIII. Antwerp and Paris, M. Sonnius, [printed by Plantin], 1580

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Voet reference number 2181A
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Author SANDER) SANDERUS (SANDERS
Title page transcription DE VISIBILI ‖ MONARCHIA ‖ ECCLESIÆ, ‖ LIBRI VIII. ‖ IN quibus diligens instituitur disputatio de certa & perpetuæ Ecclesiæ Dei tum ‖ successione, tum gubernatione Monarchica, ab ipso mundi initio vsque ad finem. ‖ DEINDE etiam ciuitatis diaboli persæpè interrupta progressio proponitur, sectæ'que ‖ omnes & hæreses confutantur, quæ vnquam contra veram fidem emerserunt. ‖ DENIQVE de Antichristo ipso & membris eius; déque vera Dei & adulterina ‖ diaboli Ecclesia, copiosè tractatur. ‖ SI quid præterea difficile & scopulosum vel in Pontificum Romanorum ‖ historia, vel in conciliorum generalium ratione accidit; idipsum ‖ ex proposito discutitur & examinatur. ‖ CumINDICE rerum & personarum locuplete. ‖ AuctoreNICOLAO SANDERO, sacræ Theo- ‖ logiæ Professore. ‖ Singulorum librorum argumenta sequens pagina indicabit. ‖ ⊕ [of M. Sonnius; H. 51] ‖ ANTVERPLÆ, ‖ ET ‖ Venundantur PARISIIS, apud Michaëlem Sonnium ‖ via lacobæa, sub Scuto Basiliensi. ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXXX.
Collation Folio [260]: †⁶, A-Z⁶, a-z⁶, AA-YY⁶; pages [1-12], 1-808, [809-816] (Errors: 206 for 208, 49 for 495)
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Pages [1]: Title [2]: Table [3-6]: Beatissimo…domino Pio Quinto, pontifici maximo (Louvain, 29 June 1571, signed by Nicolaus Sanderus; italic type, words in roman type) [7-8]: Reverendissimis…cardinalibus Ioanni Morono, Angliae protectori, Stanislao Hosio, episcopo Warmiensi, et Ioanni Francisco Commendono, episcopo Zacynthi…Nicolaus Sanderus…felicitatem exoptat (Louvain, 30 June 1571) [9-12]: Praefatio ad lectorem…(parts in italic type) 1-808: Text (parts in italic type and on columns, marginals in roman type) [809-815]: Index (on two columns) [815]: approbation (s. Thomas Gozaeus à Bellomonte, Louvain; Ioannes Molanus, Louvain) [816]: Blank
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Copies Biblioteca Nacional de España- 2.2519
Bibliographical references Ruelens-de Backer, page 226 (1581, no. 16: address of Plantin)
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Note 1 Treatise in 8 'books' on the history of the Christian Church from a Catholic point of view, centering on its organization, with detailed references to the heretics, and, as far as England is concerned, the first attempt to compile a descriptive list of the Catholics - clergy and laity - who suffered death, exile or imprisonment for recusancy. As such the publication provoked the bitterest hostility in England.
Note 2 The two dedicatories give very valuable information on Sanderus's career up to that time.
Note 3 The only known copies have the address of Michel Sonnius, the Parisian bookseller, with whom Plantin was in close relations in those years. RDB, referring to the Biographie Universelle, gives as address 'Antverpiae, ex off. Chr. Plantini. 1581', but the Biographie Universelle, sub Sanders, 40, page 316, says only 'Anvers, 1581'. Moreover, owing to the political situation in Antwerp, where in those years the Calvinists were in power, it is doubtful that Plantin should have issued an edition bearing his name.
Note 4 He printed, however, most certainly the work, stating this explicitly in some of his letters: to de Çayas, September-October 1579, listing, among the works he is printing, 'libro Sanderi de Monarchia visibili' (Corr., VI, no. 840, page 89), to Buyssetius, 10 December 1579, where likewise, among the works issued by his press in the last two years, is noted 'Sanderus de Monarchia visibili' (Ibidem, no. 851, page 114). This seems to indicate that the printing was actually finished in 1579.
Note 5 Reprint of a former edition: either the first (Louvain, Reynerus Velpius, 1571) or most likely (cf. immediately below) the second (Antwerp, Joannes Foulerus [Fowler], 1578: a copy in Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 2900).
Note 6 Listed in M 296, folio 11v (Monarchia Sanderi f⁰ Foulerii [= meaning very probably 'according to the edition of Foulerus': see immediately above], f⁰, [feuilles] 208, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 3).
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