| Record ID | cp012128 |
| Voet reference number | 590 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132968 |
| Author | ARIAS MONTANUS (MONTANO) Benedictus |
| Title page transcription | [Engraved title-page: same as in no. 588] |
| Collation | 4⁰ (222 × 145): A-X⁴, Y; pages [1-172] |
| Fingerprint | 157104 - # *b1 B $O : # *b2 X3 la$n^157104 - # b1 A2 oad$ : # b2 X3 la$n |
| Number of sheets | 21.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 9 March 1570, signed by I. de Langhe; in roman type capitals) [3-5]: Christoph. Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 May 1571) [6]: Christo liberatori S. (10 lines Latin poem; in italic type) [7]: illustration [8-147]: Text (on the left page: Latin poem, in italic type; on the right page: illustration, with above a caption in roman type capitals and a distichon in italic type, underneath a line in roman type capitals) [148-149]: Approbationes (Louvain, 17 March 1571, s. Augustinus Hunnaeus; Antwerp, 1 March 1570 old style, signed by Silvester Pardo; Antwerp, signed by Franciscus Sonnius) [150]: Benedicti Ariae Montani carmen votivum ad Christum Iesum (italic type) [151]: Christophorus Plantinus lectori S. (Antwerp, 1 August 1571; italic type) [152]: Note on the book (italic type) [153-169]: Annotationes in odas Bened. Ariae Montani (parts in italic type; on two columns) [170-171]: List of the illustrations (italic type) [172]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Copper engravings: 1) Title-page: 170 × 115, with the monogram of the designer and/or engraver Pieter Huys 2) page [7]: Circular portrait, 85, of the Christ looking to the right, without monogram 3) From page [9] on: 70 illustrations, c. 165 × c. 115, with scenes from the Old and the New Testament, some with the monograms of the designers (Crispin van den Broeck: illustrations nos. 29 [I1], 30 [I2], 31 [I3], 32 [I4], 35 [K3], 38 [L2], 50 [O2], 52 [O4], 55 [P4], 56 [P1], 57 [Q1], 61 [R1], 67 [S3]; Pieter van der Borcht: illustrations nos. 60 [Q4], 63 [R3]) and the engravers (Joannes Wiericx: illustrations nos. 1 [B1], 8 [C4], 35 [K3], 38 [L2], 39 [L3], 40 [L4], 45 [N1], 55 [P3], 56 [P4], 57 [Q1], 61 [R1], 62 [R2], 63 [R3], 68 [S4], 70 [T2]; Jan de Sadeler: illustrations nos. 29 [I1], 31 [I3], 32 [I4], 64 [R4]; Abraham de Bruyn: illustration no. 52 [O4]). Notes: a) the year 1571 appears on title-page and illustration no. 62 [R2]; b) the list of illustrations [170-171] enumerates 71 illustrations (not counting the title-page and the circular portrait); in fact there are only 70: in the list, by mistake, the enumeration jumps from 9 to 11 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - R 54.20KBR Royal Library of BelgiumRoyal Library of San Lorenzo de El EscorialBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de España |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 108 (1571, no. 8) Morales, no. 20 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12922401 |
| Note 1 | Same texts (with the same approbationes, privilege and Plantin's forewords) as in the first issue. The illustrations are much larger than in the in 8⁰ editions. Many of them had already appeared in the in folio Latin Bible of 1583 (see no. cp012970) and in liturgical works. The great title-page of the first in 8⁰ edition was used again. |
| Note 2 | It may be assumed that precisely the fact that he had a stock of beautiful copper engravings perfectly fitting the purpose induced Plantin to re-issue the album of his friend in this format and with these illustrations. |
| Note 3 | On 22 March 1583 12 copies 'Montani Monumenta in 4⁰ cum fig. nova' were mailed to Arias Montanus (Arch. 20. opening 122 right). The work, however, must have been printed and finished a considerable time before: already on 11 August 1582 the compositor A. van de Velde and the pressman H. Stroisner were paid for having printed the last 2½ sheets (VXY) (Arch. 33, folios 63 and 57). |
| Note 4 | On 22 September 1583 Arias Montanus wrote to Plantin: 'Monumentorum tabellae et characteres mihi perplacuerunt. Oportuit autem editionis annum adscriptum atque tertiae editionis mentionem factam' (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 1011, page 109). In all probability, Arias Montanus had at that time not yet received the copies sent in March, but was judging the work from proofsheets. As the album was already completely finished and partly sold, Plantin would have had some difficulties in executing the wish of his friend to give the year of publication and to note that this was the third publication. It is even thinkable that, having had the opportunity, the archprinter would have turned a deaf ear to his friend's demand: Antwerp in 1583 was under Calvinist control; there were in the city no Catholic theologians of some renown to give an approbatio. For that reason it was much more prudent to avoid trouble with both Calvinists and Catholics by not stressing the exact date of the edition and to give the impression that it was a much earlier publication. |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 11 verso ([Monumenta humanae salutis] Anno 1583 in 4⁰, f[euilles] 21½, [price:] flor. 3), and M 321 (under 1583). |
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