| Record ID | cp011996 |
| Voet reference number | 1543 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:568903 |
| Author | Justus LIPSIUS (LIPS) |
| Title page transcription | IVSTI LIPSI ‖ EPISTOLARVM ‖ SELECTARVM, ‖ Centuria prima. ‖ ⊕ 43 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXXXVI. |
| Collation | 8º [128]: *⁸, A-Q⁸; pages [1-16], 1-254, [255-256] |
| Fingerprint | 158608 - # a1 *2 ripti : # a2 *5 .IƆ - # b1 A n : # b2 Q5 tatâ$ |
| Number of sheets | 17 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Two poems by F. Raphel[engius] filius and Th. Es[ychius] (italic type, words in roman type) [3-9]: Ad praetorem consules, et senatum reip. Ultraiectinae…(Leiden, 13 November 1585) [10-14]: Lectorem meum salvere iubeo (italic type) [15-16]: Index 1-254: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type, italic type, and greek type) 254: Errata (roman type, italic type, and greek type) [255]: Privilege (Fontainebleau, 5 August 1582, signed by De Neufville) [256]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 620: on page [256] manuscript approbatio: Antwerp, 12 March 1586, s. Henricus Zebertus a DunghisUniversitary Centre St. Ignatius, AntwerpBritish Library London |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 620 |
| Bibliographical references | Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, pages 932-933 Not in Ruelens-de BackerCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6188 Adams L 814 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7074059USTC 429139STCN 306271028 |
| Note 1 | First edition of a first collection of 100 letters: 86 written by Lipsius, 14 addressed to him (enumeration of the correspondents and analysis of important passages from a number of letters in BB, III, pages 929-932). |
| Note 2 | Printed in the Officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium in Leiden. Part of the edition has the Leiden imprint (BB, III, pages 929-932), but a number of copies received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp imprint. |
| Note 3 | In the edition intended for the Southern Netherlands, there was another change: the letter to Cornelius ab Egmont Nieuwenburgius was replaced by one addressed to Jacobus Cuiacius (letter LXVII). |
| Note 4 | On 6 October 1585 Lipsius asked Plantin's advice about the dedicatory of the work. Personally he thought of Leeuwius (Dirk van Leeuwen, 'senator' of the Court of Holland and a personal friend of Lipsius), but perhaps Plantin had someone else in mind. The work was finally dedicated to the magistrate of Utrecht (with the date of 13 November 1585). In that same letter, Lipsius notes 'Epistolas edimus, sed centuriam saltem primam, ad periculum judiciorum faciendum et simul ne quid inseramus ambiguum, aut quod invidiam scriptori pariat sive discrimen' (Corr., VII, no. 1039). |
| Note 5 | The printing started at the end of 1585. On 17 December 1585 Plantin sent to Arias Montanus some sheets of the Centuria 'quae sunt sub praelo', promising to mail the others as soon as he should receive them himself from Leiden (Corr., VII, no. 1055). Four other sheets were, in fact, mailed on 22 December 1585 (Ibidem, no. 1058). Cf. on this subject some other letters to and from Arias Montanus: Ibidem, no. 1071 (1 February 1586), no. 1086 (1 April 1586), no. 1096 (3 May 1586). |
| Note 6 | Owing to the war, Plantin at Antwerp had at first difficulties in importing large numbers of the edition from Leiden: sending a copy to L. Torrentius, he explains in the accompanying letter (20 February 1586: Corr., VII, no. 1075), that so far he only had received six copies in two shipments 'dont j'en ay livré ung a Monsr. Pruyn [= treasurer of the city of Antwerp] et les autres a tels bons Signeurs et amis, les priant que les ayant leues il leur plaise juger si j'en devray faire venir de Cologne, car nous n'avons moyen d'en faire venir par la mer'. Cf. also the letters to Brughel, 15 April 1586 (Corr., VII, no. 1092) and 4 May 1586 (Ibidem, no. 1098). |
| Note 7 | Not listed in M 296 and M 321 (where the in 16mo edition is well noted). |
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