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| Record ID | cp011470 |
| Voet reference number | 625 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132841, c:lvd:633204 |
| Author | Adrianus BARLANDUS |
| Title page transcription | Hadriani Barlandi ‖ HOLLANDIAE ‖ COMITVM HISTORIA ‖ ET ICONES: ‖ Cum selectis scholiis ad Lectoris lucem. ‖ Eiusdem Barlandi ‖ CAROLI BVRGVNDIÆ DVCIS VITA. ‖ ITEM ‖ VLTRAIECTENSIVM EPISCO- ‖ PORUM CATALOGVS ET ‖ RES GESTÆ. ‖ Eiusdem argumenti Libellus ‖ GERARDO NOVIOMAGO auctore. ‖ ⊕ 45 ‖ LVGDVNI BATAVORVM, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ CIϽ. IϽ. LXXXIV. |
| Collation | Folio (305 × 200): *⁴, A-Q⁴; pages [1-8], 1-127, [128] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: D. Hadriani Cordati canonici Middelburgensis in operis auctorisque commendationem (italic type) [3-4]:…Hollandiae Provinciae Ordinibus Christophorus Plantinus S.D. (Leiden, 13 September 1583; words in italic type) [5-8]:…D. Joanni Borsalo, decano Sandenburgensi apud Verienses, Had. Barlandus S.D. (Louvain, before 6 January; italic type, parts in roman type) [8]: Hollandia unde dicta (Note on Holland; marginal in italic type) 1: Generosis adolescentibus Georgio et Philippo Egmondanis, et Maximiliano Iselsteino cognatis, Had. Barlandus S.D. (Louvain, 19 April) 2-127: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type, parts in columns) [128]: Blank |
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| Title page transcription | HAD. BARLANDI ‖ TRAIECTENSIVM ‖ EPISCOPORVM ‖ CATALOGVS ‖ ET ‖ EORVM RES GESTÆ. ‖ ⊕ 45 ‖ LVGDVNI BATAVORVM, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ CIϽ. IϽ. LXXXIV. |
| Collation | Folio [214]: a-d⁴; pages 1-31, [32] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-4: Amplissimis Ultraiectinae Ditionis Ordinibus Christophorus Plantinus S.D. (italic type, parts in roman type) 5-31: Text (parts in italic type) [32]: Blank |
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| Illustrations | 34 copper engravings, full-page illustrations, 210 × 120, representing Counts of Holland and numbered 1-27, 29-35 (on these illustrations: see cp011070) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1554Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeRoyal Danish LibraryGhent University LibraryLeiden University LibrariesBritish Library LondonBibliothèque nationale de FrancePostel Abbey. See also the references in Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), I, page 144University Library Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 273-274 (1584, Leiden, no. 1) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), I, pages 144-145 |
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| Note 1 | History of the Counts of Holland and Zeeland, followed by a history of the Bishops of Utrecht. The history of the Bishops of Utrecht has a special title-page and is formally presented as a separate edition, but the title-page of the History of the Counts and the annotations in the Plantinian records show clearly that it was considered to be a part of the History of the Counts of Holland and Zeeland. |
| Note 2 | The History of the Counts contains: a biographical note on each count or countess, followed by extracts of the work of Jacobus Meyerus, Flandriae Annales, bearing on the topic, with marginal notes, and accompanied by a portrait of the prince or princess, from Theodoricus I (9th century) till Emperor Charles V (pages 2-93); a note on Holland (and its important cities) and Zeeland (pages 94-95; in italic type); a dedication 'Illustri Veriensium principi Adolpho S.D. Hadrianus Barlandus' (Louvain, 13 January 1519), preceding a large biography of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (pages 97-123), and a list in the form of a table of the Counts of Holland and Zeeland (pages 124-127). |
| Note 3 | The history of the Bishops of Utrecht contains: the catalogue of the bishops from Willibrordus till Philip of Burgundy (pages 5-22), followed by the Historia et catalogus episcoporum Traiectinorum, translated into Latin from German by Gerardus Noviomagus (pages 23-31). |
| Note 4 | Both treatises were first printed in one volume at Antwerp by Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten in 1520 (Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.) , I, pages 143-144; the History of the Counts had already appeared the year before, in 1519, at Antwerp, Joannes Thibault: Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.) , I, page 142). They are in fact only a series of short biographical notes about the counts and bishops, more for the benefit of the youth than for that of the scholars. On both works cf. also E. Daxhelet, op. cit., pages 98-103. Plantin added, besides the illustrations: in the History of the Counts the marginal notes (referred to on the title-page as 'Cum selectis scholiis ad Lectoris lucem'), the extracts from Meyerus, the description of Holland and Zeeland, the list of the Counts; in the Catalogue of the Bishops: the Latin translation by Gerardus Noviomagus (Geldenhauer). The biography of Charles the Bold is much larger than in the 1520-edition: Plantin must have followed a somewhat revised text as it appeared in Barlandus, Rerum gestarum a Brabantiae ducibus historia, first published at Antwerp, 1526 (other editions: Antwerp, 1551; Louvain, 1566. Cf. Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.) , I, page 145). |
| Note 5 | The illustrations with the representations of the counts were already used in M. Vosmeer, Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae, domini Frisiae, Antwerp, Plantin for Philip Galle, 1578 (see cp011070). In the Galle-edition 36 princes are reproduced. As Barlandus didn't speak of John of Bavaria and of Philip II, their portraits (cp013170 and cp012718) are omitted in the Plantin-publication. |
| Note 6 | The plates were very likely executed in the Galle-studio. They remained the property of Philip Galle, who sold the reproductions to Plantin. The dealings on the subject between typographer and engraver are detailed in Arch. 20, opening 129: 'pour compte de Comites Hollandiae Barlandi' Galle received 140 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers, subdivided as follows: 56 florins Carolus guilders for supplying the paper (20 sheets per copy, making, for 400 copies printed, 8,000 sheets, at 14 stuivers per hundred) and 84 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers for the printing of the illustrations (34 plates for the 400 copies, making 13,600 prints; at 1 'negenmanneke' [= 8 'negenmannekes' in 1 stuivers] per print this came to 85 florins Carolus guilders; reduced by Galle to 84 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers). |
| Note 7 | According to the bill with Galle 400 copies were printed. Plantin's pressmen, however, were paid for 550 copies, at 5½ stuivers for each pressman per sheet (Arch. 788, folio 4). It may be assumed that in fact the edition has been reduced to 400 copies. |
| Note 8 | In the dedicatory foreword to the States of Holland Plantin tells that the Barlandus-edition was the first he printed at Leiden. The annotations in Arch. 20 and Arch. 788 make it clear, however, that it was at least in part printed at Antwerp. As the number of sheets totalled 21, whilst Galle delivered 20 sheets, it may be that ultimately only one sheet (the introductory part, including: the title-page; Plantin's foreword to the States of Holland; Barlandus's dedication to Johannes Borsalus) was printed at Leiden. More likely, however, only the quires with the illustrations, that is the History of the Counts, were executed at Antwerp, whilst the Catalogue of the Bishops was printed at Leiden. |
| Note 9 | Plantin's dedicatory to the States of Utrecht contains only some generalities. His dedicatory to the States of Holland in the beginning of the publication (reproduced in Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 1009) is far more interesting: he explains how he came to Leiden to start a new press at the urging of the curatores of the university; how his choice for this, his first publication in Holland, was dictated by Janus Dousa, lord of Noordwijk, who thought Barlandus's work most indicated to serve as an introduction and summary to the great work he himself intended to write on the history of Holland (which appeared ultimately in 1599 in The Hague under the title Annales rerum a priscis Hollandiae comitibus gestarum; cf. B.A. Vermaseren, 'De werkzaamheid van Janus Dousa Sr. († 1604) als geschiedschrijver van Holland' in Bijdragen en Mededelingen van het Historisch Genootschap van Utrecht, 69, 1954). Plantin was rewarded for his dedicatories the sum of 100 florins Carolus guilders by the States of Holland (partly for helping him paying the removal of his typographical material to Leiden) and 60 florins Carolus guilders by the States of Utrecht (cf. P.-A. Tiele, 'Les premiers imprimeurs de l'université de Leide' in Le Bibliophile belge, 1869, page 116). |
| Note 10 | 'Comites Hollandiae Barlandi, in folio' figures among the books printed by Plantin at Leiden of which on 2 January 1585 he presented a copy to the Leiden magistrate (this copy lost; cf. E. Hulshof-Poll, 'Boucken op 't secreet. Plantijndrukken op het raadhuis te Leiden' in Leids Jaarboekje, 1972, page 92). |
| Note 11 | Listed in M 296, folio 2 recto (Barlandi Had. Historia Comitum Hollandiae cum iconibus, f⁰., a⁰ 83, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 36), and M 321 (under 1583); (price 30 stuivers). |
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