| Record ID | cp011686 |
| Voet reference number | 2274 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1082040 |
| Author | Joannes SYLVIUS or SILVIUS (DUBOIS) |
| Title page transcription | ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΟΝ ‖ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ ‖ εύκτηρίων βιβλων, ὑπὁ Iωάννου Συλ- ‖ βιο Ατρεβαταίου, είς τἡν τρι φι- ‖ λουσεβούντων χάριν, ‖ συνηλμένον. ‖ Προσετέθη καί βραχὑ ά̔λλο καθημερινὁν ὑπ’ άυτο͂ του Συλ- ‖ βίο διἁ ξίχων ἡρωικῶν συγλεγραμμένον. ‖ CATHEMERINON EX PRECATO- ‖ RIIS GRAECORVM LIBELLIS A IOHANNE ‖ SYLVIO Atrebatio congestum. ‖ ITEM breue aliud Cathemerinon ab eodem Syluio heroicis versi- ‖ bus conscriptum: vtrumque in pietatis & linguæ Græcæ candi- ‖ datorum gratiam Latinè redditum. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ prototypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXI. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [123]: A-G⁸, H⁴; pages 1-117, [118-120] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title[2]: Privilege (Privy Council, 29 November 1570, signed by I. de Langhe)3: Quotation in Greek and Latin from Philip. 44-5: Reverendissimo celeberrimae Atrebatum ecclesiae antistiti Francisco Richardoto, Iohannes Sylvius in Christo S. (page 4: in Greek, page 5: in Latin; italic type)6-117: Text (on even pages: Greek text; on uneven pages Latin text, in italic type, parts in roman type)[118]: approbation (s. Sebastianus Baer Delphius, Antwerp)[119-120]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 135KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryHeidelberg University Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 109 (1571, no. 10) |
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| Note 1 | Contains: A) Cathemerinon ex precatoriis Graecorum libellis…congestum (pages 6-89), being a collection of prayers compiled from Greek prayer-books, with Latin translation; B) Cathemerinon…Latine ad verbum redditum (pages 90-117), a collection of prayers, invocations and hymns, written by Sylvius in Greek and rendered by him into Latin. |
| Note 2 | The edition was not quite a best-seller. The author complained bitterly that Plantin did not push sufficiently the sale. Plantin answered in March 1572 in an interesting letter that he had sent copies to all booksellers with whom he was in contact, but that none had ordered extra-copies; that he had shipped a large number to Paris, but that his agent in Paris (= Egidius Beys) had informed him that he had not been able to sell more than the (relatively few ?) number of copies Sylvius himself had bought in the shop in Paris. Plantin, consequently, offers to cede to Sylvius all what he has still in stock [in Paris?] (Corr., II, no. 322). |
| Note 3 | Listed in M 296, folio 3r (Cathemerinon precationum g[re] colat., 8⁰, Jo. Sylvii, f[euilles] 7½, [price:] stuivers 2½), and M 164, folio 6r. |
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