| Record ID | cp011681 |
| Voet reference number | 1811 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | OLAUS MAGNUS |
| Title page transcription | HISTORIA ‖ DE GENTIBVS ‖ SEPTENTRIONALIBVS, ‖ AVTHORE OLAO MAGNO ‖ GOTHO, ARCHIEPISCOPO ‖ Vpsalensi, Suetiæ & Go- ‖ thiæ Primate. ‖ Sic in Epitomen redacta, vt non minus clarè ‖ quàm breuiter quicquid apud Septen- ‖ trionales scitu dignum est, ‖ complectatur, ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D. LVIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [128]: a⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa⁸; folios [1r-8v], 1r-192v (Errors: 17 for 27, 65-66 omitted, 74-65-74-67-76-69-78-71-80; see also Variants) |
| Fingerprint | 155808 - # a1 a2 vlla : # a2 a4 ij.$M. - # b1 A it : # b2 2A4 s.$Hi$ |
| Number of sheets | 25 |
| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Privilege (Brussels, 29 January 1558, signed by Ph. De Lens) [2r-4r]: Clarissimo viro D. Viglio Zuichemo Frisio, in supremo sereniss. Philippi Hispaniarum, etc. regis consilio presidi aequiss. Christophorus Plantinus (Antwerp, 13 June 1558; italic type) [4v-8v]: Table 1r-192r: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) 192v: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Variants | A. Errors in pagination: 74-65-74-67-76-69-78-71-80 (Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 143) B. Errors partly corrected: 74-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80…(Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience Antwerp, K 8048). |
| Illustrations | 135 woodcuts, 37 × 62, representing scenes of life in Scandinavia, some with the monogram of the woodcutter Arnold Nicolai (folios 2r, 6v, 10r, 17v, 28v) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 143- variant AHeritage Library Hendrik Conscience Antwerp- K 8048- variant BNot checked which variant: KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 17 (1558, no. 6)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 2022 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12919819USTC 401011 |
| Note 1 | History of Northern Europe in 21 'books'. Abridged version of the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome, de Viottis, 1555, in folio. As Plantin tells in the dedicatory to Viglius, a friend, 'vir antiquorum monumentorum peritissimus', presented him this abridged version of the Roman edition of 1555, judging it worth-while for publication but having cut a number of lengthy digressions ('…sublatis summa modestia iis, quas aliunde citat historiis, fabulosis narrationibus, et veris quidem illis, sed tritis, atque adeo otiosis Physicis, Geometricis, Astrologicis, Meteorologicis, ac nonnunquam Theologicis rationibus, tum superfluis quorundam Autorum citationibus, et aliquot non admodum necessariis ipsius Autoris praefationibus…'). The name of the friend who arranged the text is not quoted, but in the introductory to the French translation of 1561 (see following no.), Plantin explains that he was the learned 'griffier' (town recorder) of the city of Antwerp, Cornelius Grapheus, who, however, had preferred to remain anonymous (as he died on 19 December 1558 Plantin in 1561 could him pay openly tribute). |
| Note 2 | The illustrations are crude but render life in Northern Europe in a vivid way. In all probability they have been copied from the 1555 Roman edition. |
| Note 3 | A second Latin version was published in 1562 by Joannes Bellerus (copies in Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 3587; KBR Royal Library of Belgium; British Library London), with this time the name of the compiler fully spelled on the title-page (A Cornelio Scribonio Grapheo, praeclarae urbi Antverpianae a secretis, sic in Epitomen redacta…). It has been assumed by RDB, page 33 (1562, no. 5), and repeated by other scholars (including Rooses, Musée, page 22), that this edition was printed by Plantin for his colleague. No traces of such a publication are found in the Plantinian archives. The illustrations, moreover, were not used in Plantin's 1558 and 1561 editions, but are copies of these woodcuts. |
| Note 4 | 125 copies were shipped to Martin le Jeune in Paris: 125 'Epit. hist. Septentrionis jusques Y' on 6 June 1558, the remaining sheets '125 des demieres et premieres feilles de l'epitome septentrio.' somewhat later, at an unspecified date (Arch. 34, pages 26-27). Seven hundred 'Epitome rerum Septentrionalium', at 2½ stuivers per copy, worth 87 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, figure in a long list of books 'Pour envoyer' (either to Paris or Franfurt; probably 1558) (Arch. 34, page 37). Two bound copies 'Hist. de Septentrion', worth 12 stuivers, were sold to Steelsius on 6 September 1558 (Arch. 38, folio 57). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Historia olai magni epitome de gentibus septentrion [alibus] in 8⁰, a⁰ 1558, f[euilles] 25, [price:] stuivers 5). |
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