Record ID | cp011406 |
Voet reference number | 2270A |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3219253 |
Author | Joannes SYLVIUS or SILVIUS (DUBOIS) |
Title page transcription | DE MORBI ARTI- ‖ CVLARII CVRATIONE ‖ TRACTATVS ‖ QVATVOR, ‖ Ioanne Syluio Insulensi, medicinam Valentianis ‖ facienti, auctore. ‖ Eiusdem de morbo Gallico declamatio Louanij in ‖ disputationibus solennibus habita, Anno, M.D. ‖ LVIII. 18. Kalend. Ianuarij. ‖ ⊕ 13 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXV. |
Collation | 8⁰ [131]: A-F⁸, G⁴; pages 1-102, [103-104] (Errors: 72 for 27, 46 for 64) |
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Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 29 May 1564, signed by G. Wouwere) 3-9: Francisco Richardoto Atrebatensium episcopo integerrimo, atque doctiss. Ioannes Sylvius. S.D.P. (Valenciennes, 27 December 1563; italic type) [10]: Laurentii Dacholii tetrastichon (italic type) 11-102: Text (parts in italic type and greek type) 102: approbation (Antwerp, signed by Ioannes à Fine) [103]: EXCVDEBAT ANTVERPIÆ CHRISTO- ‖ PHORVS PLANTINVS ANNO M.D. ‖ LXV. V. IDVS MARTII [104]: Blank |
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Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - 8-581 [2]British Library London - 1188 b 20 [2]Staats- und Stadtbibliothek AugsburgGhent University LibraryBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.UNamur- R6A.0537 |
Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer See Notes |
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Note 1 | Medical treatise on gout (and arthritis), followed by a lecture on syphilis, held in Louvain on 15 December 1557 or 1558. The latter is studied by L. Elaut, 'Over de syfilis: een aktuele "Declamatio" te Leuven in het jaar 1557 gehouden' in Scientiarium Historia, 2, 1960, pages 9-16. |
Note 2 | According to the colophon the printing was finished on 11 March 1565. |
Note 3 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 76 verso, gives the following details about 'Sylvius de morbo articularis à 800 (= meaning that 800 copies were printed)': the wages for composing and printing amount to 10 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers; for printing the 800 copies 13 reams 5 'mains' of 'papier petit bastard' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers per ream, came to 15 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 25 florins Carolus guilders 17 stuivers |
Note 4 | A number of copies have on the title-page the imprint of Plantin's Antwerp colleague, G. Silvius, who must have taken quite a large part of the edition. |
Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 9 verso (Jo. Sylvius de morbo articulari, 8⁰, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 1½) and folio 17 verso (Sylvius Jo. de morbo Articulari, 8⁰, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 1¼). |
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