| Record ID | cp011634 |
| Voet reference number | 2200 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1113839 |
| Author | Lucius Annaeus SENECA |
| Title page transcription | FLORES ‖ DE L. ANNEO ‖ SENECA, TRADVZIDAS ‖ DE LATIN EN ROMANCE ‖ Castellano, por Iuan Martin Cor- ‖ dero Valenciano, y dirigidas ‖ al muy magnifico Sen̄or ‖ Martin Lopez. ‖ ⊕ 2 ‖ EN ANVERS, ‖ En casa de Christoforo Plantino, ‖ cerca de la Bolsa nueua. ‖ 1555. ‖ Con Priuilegio de su Magestad. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [111]: *⁸, A-X⁸; folios [1 recto-8 verso], 1 recto-165 verso, [166 recto-168 verso] |
| Fingerprint | 155508 - # a1 *2 gra : # a2 *4 uro - # b1 A $ : # b2 X4 aquel |
| Number of sheets | 21.75 |
| Pages | [1 recto]: Title [1 verso]: Privilege (Antwerp, 2 April 1555, signed by De Torre) [2 recto-4 verso]: Al muy magnifico senor Martin Lopez etc.…(signed by Iuan Martin Cordero) [5 recto-8 recto]: La vida de Lucio Anneo Seneca, sacada de muchos authores muy verdaderamente (part in italic type) [8 verso]: Testimonio de S. Hieronymo de Lucia Anneo Seneca (italic type) 1 recto-165 verso: Text (parts in italic type) [166 recto-verso]: Al lector [167 recto]: SOLI DEO, HONOR ‖ ET GLORIA. ‖ Impresso en Anuers, en casa de ‖ Christoforo Plantino, cer- ‖ ca de la Bolsa nueua. ‖ 1555 [167 verso-168 verso]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - R 55.6Boston Public Library - Boston (USA, Massachusetts)Municipal Library BrugesKBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaHispanic Society of America, New YorkBiblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla - Sevilla (Spain). |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 8 (1555, no. 2) Palau y Dulcet, 20, page 403, no. 307855 Peeters-Fontainas, J. Impressions espagnoles, no. 1182 Peeters-Fontainas, J. Impressions espagnoles, 'Extrait des Mémoires de Jean-Martin Cordero de Valence. Sa vie d'étudiant à Louvain Ses traductions espagnoles Ses éditions aux Pays-Bas' in De Gulden Passer, 31, 1953, pages 59-87 (more especially, pages 78-79) Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4319 Peeters-Fontainas, J. Impressions espagnoles 1182 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12917556 |
| Note 1 | Extracts from the works of Seneca. |
| Note 2 | Translated from Latin into Spanish by Juan Martin Cordero, a Spanish student, who, at that moment, was residing in Antwerp, where he earned his living as a proof-reader for Plantin's Antwerp colleague Martin Nutius. Cordero translated some ten works into Spanish, which were printed between 1554 and 1561 in Antwerp; one - the work described here - by Plantin (cf. Peeters-Fontainas, 'Extrait des Mémoires…'). |
| Note 3 | In his Mémoires Cordero states that he made the translation 'which my friend Plantin printed and it was the first book he printed in Antwerp' (cf. Peeters-Fontainas, op. cit., page 71). The Flores de Seneca figures indeed in the first privilege obtained by Plantin, 5 April 1555, the second in a list of three works. It is generally accepted that Bruto, La institutione di una fanciulla nata nobilmente (see cp011258), is in fact the very first book issued by the Plantin Press, but that the Flores de Seneca is the first to have shown Plantin's printer's mark. To judge from the type used, it seems, however, that if Bruto's La institutione was printed by Plantin for his Antwerp colleague, Bellerus (whose printer's mark is on the title-page), the Flores de Seneca, showing Plantin's printer's mark, has in fact been printed by another typographer, Plantin being only the publisher. For a discussion of the problem: L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, I, pages 17-18. |
| Note 4 | Some sales are noted in the Plantinian archives; the earliest on 9 August 1555. Cf. Arch. 34, pages 3 (5 August 1556: 36 copies 'pour envoyer à Paris'), 9 (9 November 1556: 6, worth 1 florins Carolus guilders 1 stuivers, to Jehan Mallet, Rouen), 10 (c. 9 November 1556: 6, worth 18 stuivers, to Jehan Braque), 11 (14 November 1556: 12, worth 1 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers, to Arnould Langelier, Paris); Arch. 38, folios 1 verso (29 January 1558: 2 bound copies to Jan Steelsius), 4 verso (9 August 1555: 5 bound copies to Martin Nutius), 7 verso (to Guillaume Symon: 2 bound copies on 24 January 1556, and 2 other bound copies on 2 January 1558), 9 verso (2 [?] January 1558: 2 bound copies to 'la Poule Grasse' [= Birckman, Antwerp]). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 7 recto (Flores de seneca, in 8⁰, hispan., a⁰ 1555, f[euilles] 22, [price:] stuivers 3), and M 164, folio 12 verso. |
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