| Record ID | cp012179 |
| Voet reference number | 2343 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:892381 |
| Author | Thomas TRETERUS |
| Title page transcription | IN QVINTI ‖ HORATII ‖ FLACCI VENVSINI, ‖ POETÆ LYRICI, ‖ POEMATA ‖ OMNIA, ‖ RERVM AC VERBORVM ‖ LOCVPLETISSIMVS ‖ Index, ‖ Studio & labore THOMÆ TRETERI Posnaniensis ‖ collectus, & ad communem studiosorum vtilitatem, nunc ‖ primùm, editus. ‖ ⊕ 16 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ CIƆ. IƆ. LXXV. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [134]: A-O⁸, P⁴; pages 1-230, [231-232] |
| Fingerprint | 157508 - # b1 A2 rùm : # b2 P3 23: |
| Number of sheets | 14.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-7: Illustrissimo…D. Stanislao Hosio, signed by Re. cardinali, maiori poenitentiario, et episcopo Varmiensi, Thomas Treterus S.D. (Rome, 1 January 1575) 8-10: Thomas Treterus candido lectori S. (italic type) 10: Instructions for the use of the Index 11-230: Text (on three columns) 230: Ioannes Baptista Arcucius (6 lines Latin poem; italic type) [231-232]: Errata [232]: ANTVERPIÆ ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS ‖ ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ANNO ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXXVI. IDI- BVS ‖ MARTII |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus (A 600; A 1697). Cf. also no. 1382.UNamur- R6A.0433 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 161-162 (1575, no. 20). Cf. also no. 1382Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, 5998 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7076891USTC 406302 |
| Note 1 | Index on Horatius's Opera by Thomas Treterus. The author explains in the foreword to the reader that his Index was based on the edition of Horatius's Opera by S. Gryphius, Lyons, 1545, in 8⁰. Consequently, this Index was accompanied by an edition of Horatius's Opera, 1576, reprinted textually by Plantin from the Lyons 1545-publication (see sub Horatius, no. cp011204). |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory, dated Rome, 1 January 1575, to the Polish cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, in whose service T. Treterus was at that moment in the capacity of secretary, the author declares that two years ago, that means thus in 1572/73, he had finished his Index, with the help of a young student, Stanizlaus Drozinius. |
| Note 3 | It seems that Treterus got into contact with Plantin through the mediation of Alanus Copus, the English humanist and former bookseller in Antwerp and Louvain, living at that time in Rome. Anyway, it was to Copus that Plantin wrote most of the letters concerning Treterus's Index. On 9 October 1574 (Corr., IV, no. 565) the typographer complains to Copus that he had received the Index but without the introductory part ('me accepisse Horatii Indicem sed absque ulla inscriptione vel primae paginae ejusdem Indicis…') (repeated in a letter of 20 October: Corr., IV, no. 571). On 1 January 1575 Plantin wrote directly to Treterus, saying that, with the latter's letter of 13 November [1574] he had finally received the inscriptio et praefatio. He soon hopes to start with the printing; he has the intention to set the Index in the same type as he had used for the Index in Lucretius and more recently for the Bible in 8⁰ (of which he sent a copy) (Corr., IV, no. 598). But it was again to Copus that Plantin addressed his letter of 12 November 1575 (Corr., V, no. 671), asking if his previous epistle had not been received. It contained indeed the last sheet of the Index, so that Treterus could note eventual errors, the corrections to be printed on the page reserved for that purpose at the end of the book (actually: pages [231-232]). In case the letter should have been lost, the typographer sent with his new letter a complete copy of the Index. |
| Note 4 | With this letter ends the correspondence about the Index as far as it has been preserved. It shows that Treterus supervised from Rome the edition and made the ultimate corrections to be dealt with in a special page of Errata. But it also shows that the publication took much time, owing to the slowness of the post. And this explains the anomaly of the dating. Where the title-page has the year 1575, the colophon (on the sheet with the Errata) specifies that the printing was finished on 15 March 1576. The text itself, with the title-page, was certainly printed in 1575, but the answer to (and the corrections asked for in) Plantin's letter of 12 November 1575 must only have reached Antwerp in the first months of 1576, so that the work could only be finished and marketed in March 1576. The accompanying Opera of Horatius came even out somewhat later in 1576 (see no. cp011204). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Horatius in 8⁰ cui resp[ondet] index Tritheri, 1576, f[euilles] 18½, [price:] stuivers 4. Index in eundem Tritherii, 8⁰, f[euilles] 15½ [= in fact 14½], [price:] stuivers 5) and folio 9v (Index in Horatium Thomȩ Tritherii, 8⁰, f[euilles] 14½, [price:] stuivers 5, a⁰ 1576). |
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