| Record ID | cp012177 |
| Voet reference number | 4 |
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| Uniform title | ABC |
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| Note 1 | Catalogue no. 62 of William H. Robinson Ltd, London, 1937, mentions sub 98 'L'ABC, ou instruction pour les petits enfans, apres laquelle s'ensuit la civilité puérile, a laquelle auons adiousté la discipline et institution des enfans. Antwerp, C. Plantin, 1564' (Quoted by Carter-Vervliet, civilité type, no. 76). No copy has been located. The cost-accounting note of 'A.B.C. avec la Civilité puérile' in Arch. 4, folio 61 recto, specifies that on 26 December 1563 5 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers were paid for the composing and printing of 4½ sheets and on 1 January 1564 1 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers for another 1½ sheets. This totals 6 sheets, but 5½ sheets are mentioned later in the same note, and the amount of paper used is reckoned on a basis of 5½ sheets. As the format is not indicated, it is not possible to estimate the number of pages. There were 1,250 copies printed. This made a total of 14 reams of 'papier de Rouen', 'avec les imperfections'. It costed 12 stuivers per ream, but as there was much 'casse' in this paper (2 'mains' per ream), Plantin raised the price per ream to 12½ stuivers, bringing the overall costs of the paper to 8 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers and the total expenses involved to 15 florins Carolus guilders 19 stuivers, 'qui est un peu plus de ¼ stuivers la pièce'. The larger part of the edition seems to have be sold to the Antwerp printer and bookseller Jan van Waesberghen: '1200 de 6 feuilles font 14 rames 8 mains, à 1 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers la rame font 25 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers Receus pour Civilité Puérile en fr[ançois] vendue a Jehan Wassanberghe' (Arch. 36, page 70; date not specified, but between 24 February and 10 April 1564. Cf. Rooses, Musée, page 61). The work was intended as school-book for the very young and seems to have consisted of three parts: an ABC, a 'civilité puérile' (= a French translation and/or adaptation of Erasmus's De civilitate morum puerorum libellus; very popular at the time) and a treatise dealing with the 'disciplin' and the 'instruction' of children. Not listed in M 164 and M 296. |
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