| Record ID | cp011995 |
| Voet reference number | 619 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:365855 |
| Author | BACCHYLIDES |
| Title page transcription | APOLOGETICVS ‖ PRO DEFVNCTIS, ‖ Hoc est, ‖ PRO his qui communi mortalium sorti ‖ erepti sibi ipsis contra malignos obtre- ‖ ctatores patrocinari nequeunt: ‖ Auctore ‖ PETRO BACHERIO ‖ Sacræ Theologiæ doctore, ‖ Dominicano Gandensi. ‖ ⊕ 36 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [123]: A-Z⁸, a-b⁸; pages 1-397, [398-400] (Errors: 112 for 212, 721 for 271) |
| Fingerprint | 158708 - # 1b1 A2 sino : # 1b2 Z5 auda - # 2b1 a n : # 2b2 c2 du[m]$l |
| Number of sheets | 25.25 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-21: Illustrissimo, et amplissimo heroi, Frederico de Granvella Perrenotto, baroni Rothnaceno, domino de Champagney, regiarum financiarum in Belgio praefecto, et civitatis marchionatusque Andverpiensis gubernatori, F. Petrus Bacherius…(Ghent, 1 October 1584; marginals and parts in italic type) 22-30: Ad benevolum et christianum lectorem (Ghent, 1586; italic type, parts and marginals in roman type) 31-397: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type) [398]: approbation (28 May 1576, signed by Ioannes Molanus) [399]: Privilege (to Bacherius: Brussels, 18 July 1576, signed by De la Torre) [400]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 402Ruusbroec Institute LibraryKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonKU Leuven LibrariesBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaDominican Convent, Tienen - Tirlemont |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 290 (1586, no. 7), and page 296 (1587, no. 5) Axters, page 152, no. 420 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 232 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12924011USTC 406774 |
| Note 1 | Treatise about the cult of the dead. |
| Note 2 | Bacherius finished the work as early as 1576: the approbatio is dated 28 May 1576 and the privilege (granted to the author) 18 July 1576. The printing must have been postponed owing to the troubles in the Netherlands. In any way, from a letter of Plantin to Bacherius, 24 December 1585 (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 1060), it is clear that the author had long before contacted the typographer about the printing of his work, as Plantin affirms that, had he received the dedicatory letter in due time, the Apologeticus would already have been published years ago ('libellum tuum ante aliquot annos impressissem si tu dedicatoriam misisses sine qua in lucem emittere non decuisset'), explaining furthermore that even at the heighth of the troubles he had continued to print Catholic works. |
| Note 3 | From that same letter it may be deduced that Bacherius, after the capitulation of Antwerp in 1585, immediately renewed the contacts with Plantin to have his work printed by the typographer. The transactions, however, dragged on for some time. In October 1586, Plantin, answering a letter from Bacherius of the 8th of the same month, explains that he had not begged for a subsidy of 40 florins Carolus guilders for printing the Apologeticus, as Bacherius seemed to have understood, but that he had wished to receive some advance money and that the person lending this sum would receive the appropriate number of copies ('Non intellexi me abs te petere 40 florins Carolus guilders pro impressione Apologetici tui sed mihi eos numerari a quovis qui pro illis exemplaria ejusdem justo pretio reciperet': Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1154). Shortly afterwards an agreement must have been concluded: on 23 December 1586 Plantin notified the author that he had received in good order the manuscript and that he was already sending part of the printed text; on 10 February 1587 he mailed the last sheets, specifying, however, that the final one has not been finally printed in order to make it possible to include on the last page any errors signalled by the author (which has not been done), and asking at the same time the number of copies Bacherius wished to receive (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1180). |
| Note 4 | The dedicatory letter to Perrenot Granvelle is dated 1 October 1584. This must be an error for 1 October 1585 as it is mentioned as a fact that Antwerp had capitulated to the royal army (17 August 1585), and that Perrenot Granvelle had been appointed for a second time governor of the city (September 1585). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 1 recto (Apologeticus pro defunctis P. Bacherii, f[euilles] 25½, [price:] stuivers 8), and M 321 (under 1587). |
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