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Aliquot notae in Garciae Aromatum Historiam, 1582

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Voet reference number1010
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:1034262
Author Carolus CLUSIUS (DE L’ECLUSE or L’ESCLUSE)
Title page transcriptionCAROLI ‖ CLVSII ATREB. ‖ ALIQVOT NOTÆ ‖ IN ‖ GARCIÆ ‖ Aromatum Historiam. ‖ EIVSDEM ‖ Descriptiones nonnullarum Stirpium, & aliarum ‖ exoticarum rerum, quȩ à Generoso viro FRAN- ‖ CISCO DRAKE Equite Anglo, & his obseruatæ ‖ sunt, qui eum in longa illa Nauigatione, qua ‖ proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuit, ‖ comitati sunt: & quorundam peregrinorum ‖ fructuum quos Londini ab amicis accepit. ‖ ⊕ 34 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXXXII.
Collation8⁰ [131]: A-B⁸, C⁶; pages 143, [44]
Fingerprint158208 - # b1 A2 mes$ : # b2 C5 uunt.
Number of sheets3
Pages[1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-4: Illri…domino Balthasari de Batthyan haereditario regalium dapiferorum in Ungaria magistro…Carolus Clusius A. (Vienna, 1 January 1582) 5-43: Text (italic type, parts and marginals in roman type) [44]: ANTVERPIAE ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHO- ‖ RVS PLANTINVS, ARCHI- ‖ TYPOGRAPHVS, ANNO CIƆ. ‖ IƆ.LXXXII. MENSE FEB
Edition information
IllustrationsWoodcuts with representations of plants: a) series of 10 illustrations of varying dimensions (average: 135 × 75), each one printed on a page b) smaller woodcuts printed together on one page (pages 37, 39, 40) or in text (pages 27, 29) Digitisation of the woodblocks
CopiesMuseum Plantin-Moretus - A 1054Allard PiersonUniversity Library of Erlangen-NürnbergUniversity Library GrazKB National Library of the NetherlandsBritish Library LondonAustrian National LibraryVienna University LibraryDepartment of Botany and Biodiversity Research ViennaUNamur- R6A.0330
Digital copies Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 1054 (2)
Bibliographical referencesRuelens-de Backer, page 241 (1582, no. 26) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 767 Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), II, no. 373 Clusius-Festschrift, page 14, no. 13. Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5458
Online bibliographical referencesSTCV c:stcv:12927817USTC 401924
Note 1Presented as additional notes to Clusius's Latin translation of Garcia ab Orto, Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, 1579 (3rd edited by: see no. 1840). As explained on the title-page and in the dedicatory to Batthyany these notes are in fact the results of interviews regarding exotical plants Clusius had had, during a stay at London in 1581, with Sir Francis Drake and his companions (especially a certain Eliot), returned from their periplus around the world (1577-1580).
Note 2Very likely for this edition Clusius contacted Plantin at Antwerp on his return from London (cf. letter of Plantin to Camerarius, 19 April 1581, explaining that Clusius was in London and that the typographer expected him soon in Antwerp for discussing the illustrations of the Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Pannoniam: Corr., VI, no. 926). On 23 November 1581 Plantin told Camerarius that he expected the dedicatory [of the Notae] and that after reception he would start immediately printing the work ('Dedicatorias pro versionibus Clusii expecto et statim ubi recepero earum impressionem auspicabor': Suppl. Corr., no. 166). The dedicatory is in fact dated 1 January 1582. According to the colophon the printing was finished in February 1582.
Note 3Listed in M 296, folio 3r ([Caroli Clusii] Novae in Garciae Aromatum historiam Ea fu Dake (?), 8⁰, f[euilles] 3, [price:] stuivers 1), M 164, folio 6v ([Carolii Clusii] Notȩ in Garciȩ aromatum hist. et fi Dube (?), 8⁰, f[euilles] 3, [price:] stuivers 1), and M 321.
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