| Record ID | cp011492 |
| Voet reference number | 2409 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | C. VALERIUS FLACCUS BALBUS SETINUS |
| Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-compartment:] † C. VALERII □ FLACCI SETINI ‖ BALBI ARGONAV- ‖ TICON LIB. VIII. ‖ LOCIS INNVMERA- ‖ bilibus anteà à LVDOVI- ‖ CO CARRIONE ex vetu- ‖ stiss. exempl. emendati: nūc ‖ verò ita ab eodem perpurga- ‖ ti, vt iam primùm editi vide- ‖ ri possint. ‖ SEORSIM EXCVSÆ ‖ eiusdem Carrionis castigationes, ‖ quibus tum emendationis ratio ‖ explicatur, tum varietas lectio- ‖ nis indicatur, & diuersi aliorum ‖ Auctorum loci, quorū indicem ‖ subiecimus, corriguntur. ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ‡ Ex officina Christoph. ‖ Plantini. CIƆ.IƆ.LXVI. |
| Collation | 16mo [94]: A-N⁸; pages 1-205, [206-208] (Errors: 14 for 194) |
| Fingerprint | 156616 - # 1b1 A2 m$a : # 1b2 N5 m$v - # 2b1 A2 $no : # 2b2 F5 dde |
| Number of sheets | 9.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 17 March 1564 old style, signed by I. Fabri) [3-8]: Ludovici Carrionis ad nobilem…Iacobum Pamelium, &c. in C. Valerium Flaccum praefatio 9-205: Text (italic type) [206-208]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 234- O.B. 1.9: copy of Ortelius, probably presented to him by Plantin- bookbinding with Plantin's printer's mark, reproduced in L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, pl. 48, facing page 233KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonKU Leuven- Maurits Sabbe Library, P871 FLAC Argo 1566UNamur- R4Z.0068 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 59-60 (1566, no. 24)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4590 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12924501USTC 401266 |
| Note 1 | New edition by L. Carrio of Valerius Flaccus containing only the text of the Argonautica, but with a completory volume of 'castigationes', formally presented as a separate publication (cf. no. 921, but announced on the title-page of the text-edition and normally sold together with it. |
| Note 2 | The 'castigationes' are completely different from the 'scholia' in the 1565-edition. The dedicatory to J. Pamelius (in the 1565-edition dated Louvain, 24 September 1564; in the 1566-editon undated) has been rewritten. |
| Note 3 | In the foreword dedicated to Pamelius in the completory volume containing the Castigationes, Carrio explains how his first Valerius Flaccus-edition of 1565 showed innumerable errors, which he has now corrected (for more details see preceding no.). |
| Note 4 | The printing of the 1565-edition did not run smoothly. There are also some puzzling aspects regarding the 1566-edition. In Arch. 4, folio 73, Plantin, in the cost-accounting note of 'Valerius Flaccus 16⁰', notes the wages for composing and printing on 12 July [1566] (quires A-H) and 3 August (I-N), together 13 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, and continues 'Il contient 6½ feilles, est imprimé à 1250 [exemplaires], de papier carré qui font avec les imperfections 17 rames de grand carré à 1 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers la rame, font: 27 florins Carolus guilders', to add finally at the date of 3 August 'Annotationes Carriones in Val. Flacc. AB: 2 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers'. He retakes, however, on folio 85, the account for 'Valerius Flaccus 16⁰', noting on the date of 3 August 1566 'Pour les 6½ feilles qu'il contient: 13 florins Carolus guilders; le format: 10 stuivers; Annotationes in eundem AB, 2 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers CD etc.; [together] 9 florins Carolus guilders' In all, for composing and printing, 22 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers But then he states that 1,000 copies were printed, and as each copy contains 9 sheets (in fact, the text-edition: 6½, the Castigationes: 3, together: 9½), 19 reams (including the 'imperfections') of 'papier carré' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, came to 26 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 49 florins Carolus guilders 2 stuivers There are, consequently, some discrepancies in the two cost-accounting notes, which are difficult to explain: the price of the paper, and the number of copies printed. It may be assumed that ultimately not 1,250 copies (as first stated) but 1,000 copies were brought on the market. |
| Note 5 | The sale of the edition by Plantin in 1566, 1567 and 1568, has been compiled from the journals of those years (Arch. 44, 45, 46) by L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, pages 521-523: the sale of the first copy is noted on 13 August 1566; in all the sale of 343 copies can be traced, of which 231 were sold the first year, 67 in 1567, 45 in 1568; the larger part was marketed in Germany at the Frankfurt Fairs (182), and in the Southern Netherlands (67); furthermore: 35 copies in France, 33 in England, 4 in Italy, 4 in Portugal. |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v ([Valerius flaccus a Lod. Carrione restitut.] Idem in 16⁰, a⁰ -, f[euilles] 7½ [= an error for 9½], [price:] stuivers 1½). |
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