| Record ID | cp011876 |
| Voet reference number | 1866 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Jacobus PAMELIUS (DE JOIGNY DE PAMELE) |
| Title page transcription | IACOBI ‖ PAMELII ‖ ARCHIDIACONI ‖ AVDOMARENSIS, ‖ De Religionibus diuersis non admit- ‖ tendis in vno aliquo vnius Regni, ‖ Monarchiȩ, Prouinciȩ, Ditionis, Rei- ‖ publicæ, aut Ciuitatis loco, ‖ Ad Ordines Belgij Relatio. ‖ ⊕ 36 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [126]: A-K⁸; pages 1-159, [160] |
| Fingerprint | 158908 - # b1 A2 a$ne : # b2 K5 t$s |
| Number of sheets | 10 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: illustration 3-11: Illustrissimo…Alexandro Farnesio, Parmae ac Placentiae principi, Belgii gubernatori…(stuivers Omer, 1 March 1585, signed by Iacobus Pamelius; italic type) 12-14: Table (italic type) 15-159: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) [160]: approbation (Antwerp, 20 January 1589, signed by Silvester Pardo); Privilege (Brussels, 16 February 1589, s. Berti) |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engraving, 88 × 70, on page [2]: coat-of-arms of Alexander Farnese, to whom the book is dedicated |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 628University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamRuusbroec Institute LibraryKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonUtrecht University Library. |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 319-320 (1589, no. 15) Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 4051Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 3925 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12918080USTC 440786 |
| Note 1 | About the necessity of only one religion (more specifically the Catholic) to be practised in a country. |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory Pamelius explained the genesis of the work. At the 'Pacification of Ghent' (8 November 1576) the delegates of the Netherlandish Provinces decided to postpone the thorny question of religious freedom in Holland and Zeeland until a following session. To be prepared for this confrontation Martinus Rythovius, Bishop of Ypres, and Remigius Driutius, Bishop of Bruges, asked Pamelius to write a treatise defending their thesis on the problem of religious freedom. Pamelius obliged, but before he got well into the subject, the political troubles started again. Now, with the pacification of the Southern Provinces by Alexander Farnese, he thought the moment had come to finish the work. |
| Note 3 | Pamelius's dedicatory to Alexander Farnese is dated 1 March 1585; Plantin's publication appeared in 1589. In fact, Jacobus Pamelius did not ask Plantin to have the treatise published. The manuscript must have been found at his death (September 1587) among his possessions, and was forwarded to Plantin by Pamelius's brother, Guillaume, the influent chairman of the Privy Council in Brussels, at the end of 1588 or in the first days of 1589, as Plantin recalled in his letter to Pamelius's brother of 18 January 1589 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1430: 'Quant au livret dudict Reverendissime defunct de non admittendis duabus religionibus in una provincia qu'il a pleu a V.S. m'envoyer par mondict Signeur et Patron le docteur de Carrion, je l'imprimeray tresvolontiers, incontinent qu'il m'aura esté livré soussigné et qu'il aura pleu a V. ample Signeurie m'envoyer l'acte du consentement pour l'inserer au commencement dudict livre…'). |
| Note 4 | The printing was already finished in March 1589, when Jan Moretus mailed 20 copies 'en blancq' and 2 bound copies to Guillaume Pamele (Correspondance., VIII-IX, no. 1448; cf. the letter of acknowledgement of G. Pamele, 31 March 1589, and another letter of Plantin, 7 April 1589: Ibidem, nos. 1451 and 1455). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 14 verso (Pamelii Jacobi de duabus Religionibus, f[euilles] 10, [price:] stuivers 4), andM 321 (1589, 8⁰). |
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