| Record ID | cp012290 |
| Voet reference number | 1554 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:348740 |
| Author | Justus LIPSIUS (LIPS) |
| Title page transcription | IVSTI LIPSII ‖ EPISTOLICARVM ‖ QVAESTIONVM ‖ LIBRI V. ‖ In quîs ad varios scriptores, pleræque ad ‖ T. Liuium, Notæ. ‖ ⊕ 29 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij; ‖ M.D.LXXVII. |
| Collation | 8º (165 × 105): †⁸, A-O⁸, P⁴; pages [1-16], 1-231, [232] |
| Fingerprint | 157708 - # a1 +2 titiæ$ : # a2 +5 $loci - # b1 A ota : # b2 P2 idea |
| Number of sheets | 15.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 August 1576, signed by Iac. Blyleven) [3-4]: Ad…virum D. Ioannem Scheyffium, magnum Brabantiae cancellarium (Louvain, 18 August 1576; italic type) [5-8]: Ad lectorem (roman type and italic type) [9-16]: Table 1-229: Text (parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in italic type) 230-231: Poem of Franciscus Modius (italic type) 231: approbation (13 July 1576, s. Ioh. Molanus) [232]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 638University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamKBR Royal Library of BelgiumLeiden University Libraries- copy with manuscript notes by LipsiusUL Liège- R3690AUNamur- R16A0167 |
| Digital copies | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: A.gr.c. 163#Beibd.1 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 182 (1577, no. 12) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 1064Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, 1949 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7064244USTC 401734 |
| Note 1 | First edition of a collection of letters with critical comments on a great number of passages from Titus Livius and other classical Greek and Latin authors. The work is divided into 5 'books', containing 22, 26, 24, 28 and 26 letters (list of the scholars to whom addressed in BB, III, page 1064). |
| Note 2 | On 10 February 1576 (Suppl. Corr., no. 125), Plantin told Pithou that he had been invited by Lipsius to attend the latter's promotion to doctor in Louvain. At this occasion Lipsius had spoken with him about his plans for the publication of several works, including Quaestiones epistolae ('Au reste il a conceu ung autre oeuvre qu'il voudrait intituler (si je l'ay bien retenu) "Quaestiones epistolicae", lequel il me disoit estre quasi forme et prest de mettre en lumiere'). In a letter of 1 July 1576 to Pulmannus (Corr., V, no. 731), Lipsius himself declares he is working hard on the publication ('Ego totus nunc in Epistolicis meis Quaestionibus eram'). A month later, however, he had some doubts whether, owing to the troubled time, Plantin would be able to publish his book (letter to Pulmannus, 7 August 1576: Corr., V, no. 734: 'Convici totum, et in Juvenalis sententia non pauca adnotavi, quae inserentur Epistolicis meis, Epistola ad te. Eas quando Plantinus impressurus sit, ut hae turbae labuntur, nescio'). |
| Note 3 | The work was perhaps already printed in 1576. It is, anyway, listed with the date of 1576 in M 296, folio 9v (8º, f[euilles] 15½, [price:] stuivers 4). |
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