| Record ID | cp011549 |
| Voet reference number | 1519 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3244209 |
| Author | Paulus LEOPARDUS (LIEBAERT) |
| Title page transcription | PAVLI ‖ LEOPARDI ‖ ISEMBERGENSIS FVRNII, ‖ EMENDATIONVM ET MI- ‖ SCELLANEORVM LIBRI ‖ VIGINTI. ‖ In quibus plurima tam in Græcis quàm Latinis au- ‖ ctoribus à nemine hactenus animaduersa aut in ‖ tellecta, explicantur & emendantur. ‖ Tomus prior, decem libros continens. ‖ CVM INDICE COPIOSISSIMO. ‖ ⊕ 14 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXVIII. |
| Collation | 4º [136]: *⁶, A-Z⁴, a-m⁴, n⁶; pages [1-12], 1-279, [280-292] (Errors: 70 for 72, 144 for 124) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 January 1564, signed by De Langhe) [3-4]: Prudentissimis humanissimisque urbis Bergarum ac Bergensis territorii senatoribus, dominis suis merito colendis, Paulus Leopardus Isembergensis, S.D. (Bergues stuivers Winnoc, November 1565; word in greek type) [5-6]: Guilielmus Pantinus medicus Francisco Nansio iurisconsulto, S.P.D. (Bruges, 15 December 1567) [6]: Note on Petrus Nannius and his letters to Leopardus (italic type) [7-12]: Nine letters of Petrus Nannius to Leopardus (1549-1552; italic type, marginals in roman type) 1-279: Text (parts in greek type and italic type) [280]: Blank [281-291]: Indices (on two columns; parts in greek type) [291]: Errata [292]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 376KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonUNamur- R6A.0447 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 86 (1568, no. 34) |
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| Note 1 | Contains: a) Ten 'books' of emendations and explanations of Latin and Greek authors (pages 1-279), b) Nine letters of Petrus Nannius to Leopardus, 1549-1552 (the last letter, however, without year) (pages [7-12]), preceded by a letter of Guilielmus Pantinus to Franciscus Nansius. |
| Note 2 | As announced on the title-page, this publication was in fact but the first volume of the Miscellanea, containing only ten 'libri'. The manuscript of the second volume, containing the remaining ten 'libri', had been forwarded to Plantin together with the first volume. In 1568 he was thinking about printing this second part (see further in notes), but he must have changed his mind. The second part was only published for the first time as late as 1604, in the third volume of Fax artium, seu thesaurus criticus by Janus Gruterus (who must have received the text from Petrus Scriverius). |
| Note 3 | In the dedicatory, November 1565, the author explains how some twenty years earlier he had sent his study to Rutgerus Rescius, the Louvain typographer and professor, and Leopardus's former teacher, to have it published. However, Rescius died (2 October 1545) and the manuscript was returned. As in the following years many other scholars published similar 'observations' and as his professional work did not leave him much time, he forgot the whole project, until Franciscus Nansius, a scholar and former pupil of Leopardus and also a native of Isemberge, spurred him on to rewrite his 'miscellanea'. The same story with additional details and with the mention of the death of Leopardus is told in the letter of Guilielmus Pantinus to Franciscus Nansius, 15 December 1567. Pantinus and/or Nansius must also have been responsible for including in the publication the interesting letters of Petrus Nannius to Leopardus. |
| Note 4 | In his letter of 15 December 1567 Pantinus, having mentioned the death of Rescius and of the author, praises Plantin for continuing and bringing the publication to a good end. Another printer, however, not named by Pantinus, had first been called upon by Leopardus and/or his friends interested in the publication. And indeed, the Bruges typographer Hubertus Goltzius printed the sheets A-H (pages 1-64), before he stopped with the work and ceded the reams already finished to Plantin. The transaction is noted in Arch. 16, folio 74, at an unspecified date (perhaps in or after July 1566, but more probably at a later date, sometime in 1567): 'Item receu dudit [Hubertus Goltzius] huict monceaux des Miscellanea Leopardi, lesquels il avoit commencé à imprimer à scavoir signature A B C D E F G H in 4º, chascun monceau de deux rames ½, faict rames 20; couste le papier 22 stuivers la rame, faict florins Carolus guilders 22 et pour l'impression de chascun monceau trentecinq stuivers valent les huict monceaux 14 florins Carolus guilders, valent le tout ensemble 36 florins Carolus guilders'. Plantin continued printing quires I-Z, a-n, and the introductory quire *. |
| Note 5 | Plantin must have been induced to finish the printing less by H. Goltzius than by the friends of Leopardus. Anyway, in a letter to the Bruges bookseller Jacobus Plancius, Plantin wrote on 30-31 July 1567 that before he left Antwerp for the September Fait at Frankfurt he intended to start printing the work. For that reason he asked that the 'bibliopola' who had rendered to Plancius the letters of the late Leopardus (= H. Goltzius must be meant) should send as soon as possible the two 'libri' (= the two volumes of Leopardus's manuscript) he had promised to forward to Plantin (Corr., I, no. 68). |
| Note 6 | The other letters referring to Leopardus's publication are found in the correspondence with Cardinal Granvelle. They show that Plantin was not very happy with the publication. In November 1567 Plantin told the cardinal 'j'ay commencé un autre livre qui est: Observationes seu emendationes variae Leopardi, lequel, si je voy que je ne puisse achever environ ce nouvel an, je le différeray pour commencer et poursuivre…l'impression [of a publication sponsored by Granvelle]' (Corr., I, no. 92). On 29 January 1568 Plantin explains that he will have finished within some 15 days 'le livre de Variarum lectionum Leopardi', that he had started before having received the manuscript of the text in which the cardinal was interested (Corr., I, no. 102). Some days later, on 5 February 1568, he adds 'Il me desplaist maintenant que je ne désistay de l'impression commencée du livre de Variarum Leopardi, auquel estoyent empeschés les lectres propres pour commencer et poursuivre celle des Fragments poétiques du Sr. Fulvio Ursino [= the edition sponsored by Granvelle], puisque en cela j'eusse peu luy faire service et aux gens doctes de par delà' (Corr., I, no. 103). In the draft of his letter of 7 May 1568, the typographer told the cardinal that he mailed him some books including 'le premier tome de Leopardus contenant 10 livres, lesquels, si je m'aperçoy que les doctes aprouvent, je besongneray à mettre les autres dis en lumière' (Corr., I, no. 125). The actual letter itself, dated 8 May 1568, is more explicit: 'le premier tome de Leopardus contenant 10 livres, lesquels, si par la vente ie mapercoy estre requis, le besongneray à mectre les autres dix en lumiere de milleure grace que ie n'ay sceu faire les premiers, pourtant quayants este commences par autres en telle forme ie n'ay sceu pour le temps recouvrer du papier propice a la forme commencee, ce qui m'a contraint de les achever de tel que iay peu dautant que iestois importuné de ce faire' (Suppl. Corr., no. 63). On 4 July 1568 Plantin expresses the hope that Granvelle has by now received the copy (Corr., I, no. 139). This was indeed the case: the letter from the cardinal thanking the typographer for the shipment is dated 19 June 1568 (Suppl. Corr., no. 67). |
| Note 7 | The printing must actually have been finished before April 1568, as the 'Leopardi miscellanea' (worth 6 stuivers per copy) figures on the list of new books of which Plantin could send a copy to Camerarius, as he explains in his letter of 2 April 1568 (Suppl. Corr., no. 58). |
| Note 8 | Listed in M 296, folio 10v (Leopardi Miscellaneorum libri, 4º, aº 1568, f[euilles] 38, [price:] stuivers 7) and 14v (Pauli Leopardi miscellanea, 4º, f[euilles] 36½, [price:] stuivers 7). |
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