| Record ID | cp011616 |
| Voet reference number | 1473 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Bishop of Orléans JONAS |
| Title page transcription | IONÆ AVRE- ‖ LIANENSIS ECCLE- ‖ SIAE EPISCOPI LIBRI III. ‖ DE CVLTV IMAGINVM: ‖ Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus hæresin Claudij ‖ Præsulis Taurinensis, ante annos quidem D.C.C. ‖ conscripti, nunc verò primum ab innumeris ‖ quibus scatebant mendis repurgati. ‖ Opus lectu dignissimum, in quo pulchrè refellun- ‖ tur vniuersa pene εἰκονομαχω̄ν argumenta. ‖ ⊕ 15 ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ — ‖ M.D.LXV. |
| Collation | 16mo (108 × 72): A-N⁸; pages 1-208 |
| Fingerprint | 156516 - # b1 A2 ma : # b2 N5it,$n |
| Number of sheets | 6.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank3-7: Praefatio Ionae Aurelianensis episcopi super sequenti opusculo Carolo regi porrecto (italic type, marginals in italic type)[8]: Blank9-208: Text (parts and marginals in italic type)208: approbation (s. Sebastianus Baer Delphius, Antwerp) |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 486Major Seminary Ten Duinen BrugesCambridge |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 48 (1565, no. 14)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6097 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12919721USTC 405272 |
| Note 1 | Treatise defending the ‘cult of the images’ against the theses of Claudius, bishop of Turin, during the reign of emperor Lewis the Pious, about 825 (the treatise is titled on page 9: Opus Ionae Aurelianensis episcopi, quod imperante Lodovico gloriosissimo Caesare, edidit adversus blasphemias Claudii Taurinensis Ecclesiae episcopí). The foreword is dedicated by Jonas to the son of Lewis the Pious, Charles the Bald, King of Francia Occidentalis (France). |
| Note 2 | Jonas’s work is to be seen in the general context of the struggle for or against iconoclasm, which in those years nearly wrecked the Byzantine Empire and also had its repercussions in the Carolingian Empire, where emperor and clergy had a somewhat ambiguous approach to the problem. The renewal of the controversy owing to the Calvinist preachings could have incited Plantin (or one of his backers) to publish this medieval treatise. |
| Note 3 | Nothing is said in the publication about the editor or about the manuscript(s) or printed edition(s) used. |
| Note 4 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 74, gives the following details about ‘Jonas de cultu imaginum’: the wages for composing and printing are entered from 27 January until 17 February 1565 and amount to 11 florins Carolus guilders 14 stuivers; 1,250 copies were printed. Of ‘papier carré’ 18 reams were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 3½ stuivers per ream, came to 21 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 32 florins Carolus guilders 17 stuivers |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 9v (Ionas de imaginibus in 16º, aº —, f [euilles] 6½, [price:] stuivers 1). |
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