| Record ID | cp011622 |
| Voet reference number | 1380 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:757995 |
| Author | Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS |
| Title page transcription | Q. HORATII ‖ FLACCI EPODON ‖ LIBER, ‖ Ex antiquissimis septem codicibus manuscriptis, ‖ cum commentarijs antiquis emendatus & ‖ editus opera IACOBI CRVQVII Messi- ‖ nij, apud Brugenseis politioris litteraturæ ‖ professoris publici. ‖ Eiusdem in eundem adnotationes. ‖ ⊕ 12 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXVII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8º (170 × 105): A-L⁸; pages 1-172, [173-176] (Errors: 12 for 20, 150 for 159) |
| Fingerprint | 156708 - b1 A2 s$inco : b2 L5 ulg |
| Number of sheets | 11 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 14 April 1564, signed by Mesdach) [3-9]: Ad C. V. Iacobum a Claerhout d. de Maldeghem, Pittem, VVtkerke, Coolskam, Lembeke, etc.…Iac. Cruquii praefatio (Bruges, 20 February 1565; italic type) [10]: 4 lines Latin poem by J. Cruquius (italic type) [11]-172: Text (parts in italic type, words in greek type) 172: Errata (word in greek type) [173-174]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, signed by Haller) [175]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ANTVERPIÆ AN. ‖ M.D.LXVII. IPSIS NON. IVLII [176]: Errata (word in greek type) |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1699KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University Library.Census of BB also lists: Bodleian Libraries - Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 68 (1567, no. 6) Sabbe, pages 204-205 Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 499 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 1501 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12926521USTC 404523 |
| Note 1 | Edition of the Epodon liber by J. Cruquius. Each poem (printed in italic type) is followed by scholia (in roman type), introduced by the word 'Commentator', and by comments and notes by the editor (in roman type), introduced by the word 'Cruquius'. |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory to J. a Claerhout, much is said about the man and his family, but not a single word about the manuscripts consulted by Cruquius. Details, however, were given in a previous Cruquius edition of Horatius's Carminum liber quartus, published in Bruges by H. Goltzius in 1565: in the dedicatory to Franciscus ab Helfaut, Abbot of St. Peter (or Blandinium) at Ghent, Cruquius thanked the prelate for sending the Horatius manuscripts in the library of his abbey (and mentioned to Cruquius by a monk of St. Peter, Antoine du Pré) to Bruges for consultation. These precious manuscripts were shortly afterwards, in August 1566, destroyed in the fire of the St. Peter Abbey during the Iconoclast movement. The Horatius editions published by Cruquius are, consequently, very important for the text-tradition of the Latin poet, especially regarding the scholia. Cruquius, however, is supposed to have arranged too freely the texts he used: the value of his scholia has been questioned by some philologers. On the 'Cruquius-frage', see the bibliographical references in Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 498; cf. also H. de Vocht, History of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, III, 1954, pages 484-486. Anyway, Cruquius remains rather vague about the manuscripts he used: in the 1565-edition of the Carminum liber quartus he speaks of 'quatuor codices Blandiniis' and in the 1578-edition of the Opera of a 'vetustus codex Bland.' (supposedly written some 700 years before) and 'tres codices Bland.'. On the title-page of the Epodon liber mention is made of 7 codices; according to references in the comments ('Cruquius') these include the 4 Blandinian manuscripts, 2 Buslidiani codices and a Carrionis codex. On the title-pages of the 1573-edition of the Satyrarum libri II and the 1578-edition of the Opera this number is increased to 11. The new ones include the codices Divaeus, Maldeg[em ?], Martinius, Nannius, and Tonsanus, but now only 1 Buslidianus is mentioned. |
| Note 3 | In a letter of 13 June 1567 Cruquius protested that his Epodon Horatii had not yet been published. Plantin answered on 21 June 1567 that he had already sent printed sheets. He had in his turn to make a complaint: his proof-readers informed him that in the manuscript so many errors were left that not all of them could be amended. In any case, the printer hoped to achieve the work the following week (Correspondance de C. Plantin, I, no. 39). The colophon, in fact, states that the Epodon liber was finished on 7 July 1567. |
| Note 4 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 111 verso, gives the following details about 'Epodon Horatii 8º cum comment. Cruquii': the wages for composing and printing are entered on 28 June 1567 and amount to 13 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers As 500 copies were printed, and as each copy contains 10 sheets (= in fact 11), 11 reams of paper (including the 'imperfections') were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers per ream, came to 14 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 27 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8 verso (Horatii epodon libri cum cto Cruquii, 8º, f[euilles] 11, [price:] stuivers 2½). |
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