| Record ID | cp011402 |
| Voet reference number | 1235 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132911 |
| Author | Laurentius GAMBARA |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page; in cut-out part, typographically printed:] LAVRENTII ‖ GAMBARÆ ‖ BRIXIANI, ‖ RERVM SACRARVM ‖ LIBER. ‖ CVM Argumentis Iacobi Pacti ‖ Siculi Mamertini. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXVII. |
| Collation | 4º [180]: A-Z⁴, a⁴-[b]; pages 1-194, [195-196] |
| Fingerprint | 157704 - # 1b1 A2 ene : # 1b2 Z e - # 2b1 a nd : # 2b2 a3 ina$ |
| Number of sheets | 24.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Iacobus Pactus Siculus Mamertinus ad Laurentium Gambaram, de sacris eius poematibus 3-194: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) 194: approbation (s. Walterus vander Steeghen, Antwerp) [195]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 August 1576, signed by Iac. Blyleven) [196]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 55 copper engravings of varying dimensions: 1) Engraving: title-page, 196 × 130, with cut-out centerpart for typographical text; underneath in a cartouche the name of the designer: 'Bernardus Passarus. Ro. Inv.' 2) 42 engravings, 122 × 95 3) 9 engravings, 102 × 135 (the illustration on page 160 has been reprinted on page 191) 4) 1 engraving, 130 × 100 (on page 141)) 5) 1 engraving, 100 × 85 (on page 158) 6) 1 engraving, 112 × 86, with the monograms of the designer (Pieter Van der Borcht) and the engraver (Joannes Wiericx) (on page 88). As pointed out in letters from Plantin (see below) the plates were made in Italy (by an unknown engraver), probably after the designs of the Roman painter Bernardo Passaro (whose name, anyway, figures on the title-page), and shipped to Antwerp; with the only exception of the plate on page 88, which belonged to Plantin's stock and was used in those years in liturgical editions of the Officina Plantiniana |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 303KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 180 (1577, no. 7) |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12924382 |
| Note 1 | Collection of religious poems by Gambara in the same style as his Precationes ad Deum of 1572 (of which some have been reproduced; e.g. In Innocentes, 46-48; In Ieiunium Christi, 49-50, In Christum in cruce pendentem, 58-60; In direptionem urbis Nicosiae, 149-151; Ad Aurelium Portulacam Brixianum, in patriam euntem, 180; other poems of the 1572-edition have been substantially rewritten), followed by some similar poems by other authors (De Laurentio Gambara carmen Iosippi Vasselii Lucensis, 181-182; In D. Antonium Patavinum Achillis Statii Lusitani hymnus, 183-190; Turcis navali proelio victis Achillis Statii Lusitani eucharisticon, 191-194). |
| Note 2 | Each poem, with but a few exceptions, starts with a short 'argumentum' (summary), and has an illustration, adapted to the text. As in the 1572-series, each poem on a saint or a religious feast is dedicated to a prelate; some are directly addressed to personalities, generally prominent members of the clergy. The personalities honoured in this way include: Pope Gregorius XIII (twice mentioned); Antonius Carafa, cardinal; Hieronymus Garimbertus, episcopus Gallesanus; Caesar Gambara, episcopus Terdonensis; Ioannes Moronus, cardinal; Alexander Farnesius, cardinal (trice mentioned); Alexander Rufinus, Hieronymi filius Romanus, episcopus Melphiensis; Thomas Aldobrandinus, Florentinus, ab epistolis, quas breves appellant, Pii V Pont. Max.; Iacobus Sabellus, cardinal; Fulvius Ursinus, Iulii filius, episcopus Spoletinus; Hippolytus Aldobrandinus, auditor rotae; Antonius Perenottus Granvellanus, cardinal (four times mentioned); Franciscus Alciatus, cardinal; Ascanius Salimbenus, Viterbiensis iurisconsultus; Laevinus Torrentius, archidiaconus Leodiensis; Gerardus [de Groesbeeck], episcopus Leodiensis; Marcus Antonius Amulius, cardinal; Matthaeus Contarellus, Gregorii XIII datarius; Antonius Fachinettus, episcopus Boloniensis et Neocastrensis; Ad Prosperum Santacrucium Romanum, qui postea a Pio IV Pont. Max. in numerum cardinalium cooptatus fuit; Ad Ptolemaeum Gallium, cardinalem; Seraphinus Olivarius Gallus, rotae auditor; Augustinus Valerius, episcopus Veronensis; Ad Auminum Polam Tarvisimum; Ad Ferandum Farnesium, episcopum Parmensem; Ioannes Baptista Stella Brixianus, Vincentii filius, monachus Ord. S. Benedicti Cassinatensis (twice mentioned); Pyrrhus Tarus Romanus; In Divum Laurentium, cuius templum ad Ollium flumen Ioanni Francisco Gambarae cardinali commissum est; Vincentius Stella Brixianus, I.V. doctor; Antonius Haelius, patriarcha Hierosolymitanus; Seraphinus Fontana Mediolanensis, praelatus monachis D. Mariae Farfensis; Christophorus Robusterus Tarraconensis, auditor rotae; Gulielmus Sirletus, cardinal; Margarita Stella, Vincentii I.V. doctoris filia; Ad Bernardinum Risium de Cuppis, episcopum Auximatem; Ad Iacobum Pactum Siculum Mamertinum; Franciscus Brondinus Picolhomineus, archiepiscopus Senensis; Nicolaus Ormannettus, episcopus Patavinus; Ad Guidum Ferrerium, cardinalem; Ad Aloysium Atestium, cardinalem; Ad Bartholomaeum Ferrium Lugiensem, Ordinis Praedicatorum Interamnensem episcopum; Ad Silvium Antonianum Romanum; Ad Ioannem Baptistam Dionysium Auximatem iurisconsultum; Ad Aurelium Portulacam Brixianum, in patriam euntem. |
| Note 3 | Plantin speaks about the publication in some letters to Arias Montanus. In his epistle of 1-4 September 1576 he tells in passing 'Nuper accepi Carmina Gambarae sed nondum figuras [= the plates] quas intelligo datas Dno. Casnedo [= Italian merchant in Rome] neque quicquam aliud ipsi traditum vidi neque quando sim accepturus scio' (Corr., V, no. 738, page 198), and on 3 May 1577 he mentions the shipment of a copy (Corr., V, no. 757, page 236: 'Mitto nunc Catalogum nundinarum et D. Gambarae carmina pia cum figuris aeneis quas acceperam ab Urbe'). Finally, in an Italian letter of 19 November 1577 to a not named correspondent, supposed to be the Italian merchant Casnedo, the shipment of 50 copies 'Poemata Gambare con le figure di Rome' is announced. Some 12 copies had to be presented to the author and a copy to each of the Cardinals Madrutius, Granvelle, and Sirlet, and eventually to other personalities. The remaining copies could be sold (Corr., V, no. 782). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 10v ([Laurentii Gambarae poemata] Eadem cum fig. aeneis, 1577, f[euilles] 24½, [price:] stuivers 40) and folio 14v ([Poemata Laurentii Gambarae] Eadem figuris aeneis, [price:] stuivers 40, in 4º). |
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