| Record ID | cp011410 |
| Voet reference number | 2448 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3219433 |
| Author | Joannes Antonius VIPERANUS (VIPERANO) |
| Title page transcription | IO. ANTONII ‖ VIPERANI, ‖ ORATIONES VI. ‖ De Naturali sciendi cupiditate. ‖ De Vtilitate scientiarum. ‖ De Consensu Disciplinarum. ‖ De Perfecto habitu hominis. ‖ De Philosophia. ‖ De Legibus. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXI. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [130]: A-F⁸, G; pages 1-99, [100] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 March 1576, signed by Iac. Blyleven) 3-4: Iacobo Boncompagno utriusque militiae S.R.E. gubernatori generali, Io. Antonius Viperanus 5-99: Text (italic type) 99: approbation (s. Walterus vander Steegen, Antwerp) [100]: ANTVERPIAE ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHO- ‖ RVS PLANTINVS, ARCHI- ‖ TYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ ANNO CIƆ.IƆ. LXXXI. ‖ MENSE IVNIO |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 408CambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de España. |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 229 (1581, no. 30) |
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| Note 1 | Series of six studies: De naturali sciendi cupiditate (pages 5-19); De utilitate scientiarum (pages 20-34); De consensu disciplinarum (pages 35-50); De perfecto habitu hominis (pages 50-64); De philosophia (pages 64-76); De legibus, ad Perusinos (pages 77-99). |
| Note 2 | According to the colophon the printing was finished in June 1581. |
| Note 3 | The manuscript must already have reached Plantin in 1576, together with those of the other works printed in 1581 (De componenda oratione libri tres: no. 2447; In M.T. Ciceronis de optimo genere oratorum commentarius: no. 2446), as shown by Plantin's letter to Viperanus, 31 March 1576, in which the typographer confirms to have received Viperanus's letters of 28 January and 25 February 1576 'una cum Orationibus manuscriptis et impressis', which were immediately forwarded to the competent authorities to get the approbationes and the privilege (Corr., V, no. 708). In the same letter Plantin explains that he had not yet obtained the approbatio for Viperanus's De re poetica (see no. cp012722), meaning thus that the text of this treatise must have reached him somewhat earlier. The privilege, obtained on 20 March 1576, was conceived in general terms (= Io. Antonii Viperani opera), covering all the treatises, including the De re poetica. The latter was finally issued in 1579, but the three others had to wait until 1581. The delays are discussed in some of Plantin's letters to Arias Montanus (3 May 1577: Corr., V, no. 757, page 236), to Viperanus (February 1578: Ibidem, no. 789), to Charles Billohe, residing in Madrid, who contacted the typographer on behalf of Viperanus (February 1581: Corr., VI, no. 914), to Viperanus (15 September 1581 [Ibidem, no. 946]: Plantin promises to have 25 copies of Viperanus's publications brought over by Pulmannus - that means to Spain, implying that the author was at that time in the Iberian Peninsula; 13 November 1581 [Corr., VII, no. 961]: has received Viperanus's letter, dated Lisbon, 10 September 1581; has mailed a bound copy, together with 6 [unbound] copies of all of Viperanus's works issued by the Plantin Press, with the exception of the De rege et regno - no copies of which were available; promises to start as soon as possible with the two remaining works of Viperanus, the 'Laudationes tres' and the 'De summo bono libri' [a promise, which, however, did not materialize]). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v ([Viperanus Jo.] Orationes diversae sex, 1581, f[euilles] 6¼, [price:] stuivers 2), and M 321. |
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