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De re poetica libri IIII, 1565

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Record ID cp011502
Voet reference number 1159
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:3248486
Author Georgius FABRICIUS
Title page transcription GEORGII FABRICII ‖ DE RE POETICA ‖ LIBRI IIII. ‖ Quid singulis contineatur, proximè sequens ‖ pagina indicabit. ‖ Latinorum poëtarum inter se comparationes ex Iulij ‖ Cæsaris Scaligeri Critico desumptæ. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXV. ‖ CVMPRIVILEGIO.
Collation 16mo [91]: A-T⁸; pages 1-258 (= for 292), [293-304] (Errors: 40 not numbered, 85 for 58, 66 for 60, 69 ?, 100 ? for 102, 131 for 113, 28 for 128, 131 ? for 135, 150 for 156, 191 ? for 181, 111 for 211, a43 ? for 243, 245 for 254, 290 for 260, 260 for 268, 27 for 277, 282 for 281, 289 for 290, 259 ? for 291, 258 for 292; N.B.: errors difficult to check)
Fingerprint 156516 - # b1 A3 $v : # b2 T4 hal
Number of sheets 9.5
Pages [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 7 April 1564 old style, signed by Mesdach, and 18 April [1564], s. De Perre); Table (italic type) 3-247: Text (parts and marginals in italic type, parts on two columns) 248-258 (= for 292): Latinorum poetarum inter se comparationes ex Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri Critico desumptae (parts in italic type) [293-302]: Index (on two columns; in italic type) [303]: approbation (signed by Sebastianus Baer, Antwerp) [304]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ANTVERPIAE, ‖ ANNO MLXV (= sic). IDIBVS IVLIIS
Edition information
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 197019KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonBibliothèque MazarineMunicipal Library Troyes
Bibliographical references Not in Ruelens-de Backer.Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5769 Adams F-80
Online bibliographical references STCV c:stcv:12915665
Note 1 Treatise on Latin poetic art (pages 3-247), followed by a series of 'comparisons' between Roman poets on specific topics, i.e. poems grouped together under headings as pestilentia, tempestas, etc., said to be compiled from a study of Julius Caesar Scaliger (pages 248-292).
Note 2 This seems to be the first edition of Fabricius's De re poetica libri IIII. A similar work by the same author, De re poetica libri septem, was published about the same time at Leipzig and Antwerp.
Note 3 The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 83, gives the following details about 'fabricius de re poetica': the wages for composing and printing were entered on 19 May, 30 June, and 18 August 1565, and amounted together to 21 florins Carolus guilders 2 stuivers The work contains 9½ sheets ('9½ feuilles in 16⁰'). As 1,250 copies were printed, 24 reams of 'papier carre' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, came to 33 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 54 florins Carolus guilders 14 stuivers
Note 4 According to the colophon the printing was actually finished on 15 July 1565.
Note 5 Listed in M 296, folio 6v (Fabritius de re poetica, 16⁰, f[euilles] 9½, [price:] stuivers 2), and M 164, folio 13v.
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