| Record ID | cp011777 |
| Voet reference number | 1095 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:848069 |
| Author | Rembertus DODONAEUS (DODOENS) |
| Title page transcription | FRVMENTORVM, ‖ LEGVMINVM, PA- ‖ LVSTRIVM ET AQVATILIVM ‖ HERBARVM, AC EO- ‖ RVM, QVAE EO ‖ PERTINENT, ‖ HISTORIA: ‖ REMBERTO DODONÆO MECHLI- ‖ niensi Medico auctore. ‖ ADDITAE SVNT IMAGINES VIVAE, ‖ exactissimae, iam recens non absque haud vul- ‖ gari diligentia & fide artificiosissimè expressæ, ‖ quarum pleræque nouæ, & hactenus non editæ. ‖ ⊕ 17 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXVI. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: A-R⁸, S⁴; pages 1-271, [272-280] (Errors: 2 for 3, 10 for 100, 180 for 108, 635 for 165, 112 for 212) |
| Fingerprint | 156608 - # b1 A2 rb : # b2 S tr |
| Number of sheets | 17.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 2 (= for 3)-12: Reverendo…domino D. Viglio Zuichemo, signed by Bavonis Gandavensis praeposito, summi senatus Belgici praesidi…Remb. Dodonaeus medicus S.D.P. (13 November 1565; parts in greek type) 13-19: Remb. Dodonaei ad lectores praefatio…(Malines, 5 November 1565; parts in greek type) 20-271: Text (italic type, parts in roman type, gothic type and greek type, marginals in roman type and greek type) [272]: Blank [273-276]: Index (on two columns) [276]: Errata [277-279]: Index Graecarum vocum (on two columns) [279]: Privilege (to Plantin 'cui hoc Dodonaeus permisit': Brussels, 4 July 1565, s. Bourgeois, and 6 July 1565, s. de Witte) [280]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 81 woodcuts representing plants, of which 3 are twice reproduced (pages 83 and 89; 102 and 104; 269 and 271); mostly c. 135 × c. 75 (some 9 ills, of smaller format). See also Note 3 Digitisation of the woodblocks |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1720Allard PiersonKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryKB National Library of the NetherlandsBritish Library LondonBibliothèque nationale de FranceUtrecht University LibraryVatican Apolstolic LibraryUNamur- R6A.0404 |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 1720 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 51 (1565, no. 25), and page 57 (1566, no. 17) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), II, pages 211-212 Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), II, page 49, no. 513. Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 956 Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.) D 111 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7038586USTC 88525 |
| Note 1 | Botanical study of the cereals, the vegetables, the vegetation of the marshes, and the water plants. |
| Note 2 | Dodonaeus had already partially treated the subject in De frugum historia liber unus, Antwerp, Joannes Loeus, 1552, and in the Cruijde Boeck (first edition, J. Loeus, 1554), book 4, but this is a greatly enlarged and systematized version. It was largely retaken in the first book of the 4th pemptadis in the Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, 1583 (see no. cp010031). |
| Note 3 | First of Dodonaeus's publications issued by Plantin. The former editions of the botanist printed by the Antwerp typographer Joannes Loeus (Van der Loe) were illustrated, but for his edition Plantin did not borrow one of the wood-blocks used by his Antwerp colleague, but had them all anew designed and cut under Dodonaeus's supervision, as underlined in the 'ad lectores praefatio' (cf. BB, II, page 212). The drawings were made by Pieter van der Borcht. This was the first commission entrusted by Plantin to the Malines painter, probably at the urging of Dodonaeus. Van der Borcht was paid on 13 August 1565 for 60 'figures' and on 27 October 1565 for another 20 'figures'. At 5 stuivers a piece he received for this job 20 florins Carolus guilders On 13 August 1565 were also noted 2 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers 'pour un herbier en flameng' forwarded to the artist - very likely Dodonaeus's own Cruijdeboeck of 1554 of 1563; anyway a Dutch botanical edition, the illustrations of which could serve as models for Van der Borcht (Arch. 3, folios 33 and 37 bis). The woodcutters Cornelis Muller, Arnold Nicolai, and Gerard Janssen van Kampen were paid 8 stuivers a piece. The former was noted on 13 August 1565 for 20 'figures' (8 florins Carolus guilders), on 7 September 1565 for 30 'figures' (12 florins Carolus guilders), and finally on 27 October 1565 for another 20 'figures' (5 florins Carolus guilders); in all 70 wood-blocks. Besides his regular remuneration of 25 florins Carolus guilders, he received on 27 October 1565 an additional 2 florins Carolus guilders 9 stuivers '[pour son] contentement quil disoit et plaignoit avoir perdu au marché'. In any case, this is how the transactions with Muller are noted in Arch. 3, folios 33, 34 and 37 bis; but the entries in Arch. 31, folio 65 bis, seem to indicate that between 25 August and 8 November [1565] Muller executed only 59 wood-blocks 'des plantes de Dodonaeus', for which he was paid 25 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers Arnold Nicolai received on 21 October 1565 4 florins Carolus guilders for 10 'figures' (Arch. 31, folio 51). Gerard Janssen was paid on 26 October 1565 4 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers for 12 'figures des herbes de me. Rembert Dodoens' (Arch. 31, folio 77). This makes a total of 81 blocks (59 by Muller, 10 by Nicolai, 12 by Janssen), but for some reason of these 81 blocks only 78 were used. |
| Note 4 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 89, gives the following details about 'Remberti Dodon. frument, historia': the wages for composing and printing quires A-N are paid from 15 December 1565 till 6 January 1566 (17 florins Carolus guilders), for quires O-S on 12 January 1566 (6 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers). Together with the 3 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers 'p[our] lindex à Mre Quentini [Steenhartsius]' (in Arch. 31, folio 43, is noted on 21 January 1566 to the credit of Quentin Steenhartsius not 3 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers but 3 florins Carolus guilders 'pour Indices in Hist, frument, leg. etc. Dodonaei'), this did amount the costs of printing to 27 florins Carolus guilders Of the edition 800 copies were printed. At 17½ sheets per copy, 29 reams of paper 'petit bastard' were used, which came, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, to 35 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers, bringing the overall costs, but without the illustrations, to 62 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers Of the illustrations nothing is said in the cost-accounting note. |
| Note 5 | The author received as remuneration 50 copies of his work (Arch. 44, folio 5: 14 January 1566 'Envoyé à Malines à M. Rembert Dodoneus p[our] sa copie 50 Historia frumentorum des sienes'). |
| Note 6 | The text of the original privilege (to Dodonaeus, in Dutch, 6 July 1565: Arch. 81, folio 373) is reproduced in Corr., III, no. 334. The Latin summary of this privilege in the publication itself is somewhat adapted in as far as it presents Plantin as having the printing-rights 'with the permission of Dodonaeus', whilst the original privilege is given to Dodonaeus directly without quoting Plantin. |
| Note 7 | In a letter dated 11 January [1566] Dodonaeus forwarded to Plantin a list of errors and the text of the Latin summary of the privilege as it could be (and was indeed in fact) reproduced in the edition, together with some other remarks (Cf. A. Louis, 'Beschouwingen bij een ongekende brief van Rembertus Dodoens (1517-1585)' in De Gulden Passer, 30, 1952, pages 111-118, with publication of the letter and an interesting comment. The letter with a summary of Louis's comment is reproduced in Suppl. Corr., no. 12). Dodonaeus's indications as formulated in the letter were taken into consideration by Plantin for printing the last quire (S: pages [273-276]). |
| Note 8 | Listed in M 296, folio 6v (Frumentorum historia dodonei, 8⁰, f [euilles] 17½, [price:] stuivers 5) and folio 16v (Remberti dodonei Historia frumentorum, [price:] stuivers 5), and Ms. 164, folio 13v. |
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