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Diurnale Romanum, in 24mo, 1558

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Record ID cp011886
Voet reference number1088
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Uniform title DIURNALE
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Note 1Listed in M 296, folio 4 verso ([Diurnale Rom.] Idem in 24⁰, a⁰ 1558 et 1561, f[euilles] 10, [price:] stuivers 3), and M 164, folio 8 verso. Bohatta, no. 231, referring to Rooses, M. Musée Plantin-Moretus, page 22. No copy known.
Note 2Sales include: 50 copies, worth 7 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, to Martin le Jeune at Paris on 5 June 1558 (Arch. 34, folio page 26; one copy, being 'defect', was sent back to Plantin by M. le Jeune on 18 August 1558: Correspondance de C. Plantin, I, no. 2, page 6), and 50 copies, value not noted, to Lucas [Brayer] at Paris on 12 February 1559 (Ibidem, page 28). Plantin, who at that time sold also paper, notes on 2 February 1558 that he 'prins moymesmes pour imprimer Diurnale Romanum et horae parve 35 rames de 15 à 17 [stuivers]: 29 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers' (Arch. 38, folio 79 recto); meaning that some 1,750 (or, when taking into account the 'imperfections' some 1,500) copies were printed.
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