| Record ID | cp012293 |
| Voet reference number | 2151 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:14122152, c:lvd:3218291 |
| Author | Pierre de RONSARD |
| Title page transcription | LES AMOVRS ‖ DE P. DE RONSARD ‖ VANDOMOIS, NOVVELLE= ‖ ment augmentées pat luy. Auec les ‖ Continuations desdits Amours, ‖ & quelques Odes de l'Au= ‖ teur, non encor im= ‖ primées. ‖ Plus, le Bocage & Meslanges ‖ dudit P. de Ronsard. ‖ [Open space] ‖ A ROVEN, ‖ Par Nicolas le Rous. ‖ 1557. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (150 × 95): *⁴, a-i⁸, A-K⁸, A-N⁸, O⁴; folios [1r-4v], [1r]-70v, [71r-72v], [1r]-80v, 1r-107v, [108r-v] (Errors: in 2nd part: 13 not numbered, 64 for 62, 62 for 64; in 3rd part: 78 for 18, 40 not numbered ?, 99 for 97, 97 for 99, 103 for 101, 101 for 103) |
| Fingerprint | 155708 - # b1 A2 $de$n : # b2 K3 upi |
| Number of sheets | 10 |
| Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Blank [2r-3v]: Iambes contre un mesdisant de Ronsard (italic type) [3v-4v]: Sonnets in honour of Ronsard by M. de S.G., Ian Antoine de Baif, Estiene Iodelle (italic type) [1r]-58v: Text of Les Amours (italic type) 59r: Sonet de Nicolas Denisot, conte d'Alsinois, sur la couronne de myrte de Ronsard (italic type) 59v: Sonet sur les Erreurs Amoureuses de Pontus de Tiard Maconnois (italic type) 60r-70r: Odes (italic type, parts in roman type) 70v-[72v]: Table (on two columns; italic type) [1r]: CONTINVATION ‖ PREMIERE ET SECONDE ‖ DES AMOVRS DE P. DE ‖ Ronsard Vandomois. ‖ V. (fleurons) ‖ A ROVEN, ‖ Par Nicolas le Rous. ‖ 1557 [1v]: Blank 2r-80v: Text (italic type, parts and marginals in roman type) 1r-59r: Le Bocage (italic type) 59v: A P. de Ronsard 60r-[108v]: Les Meslanges (italic type) |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- R 55.11Austrian National Library. |
| Bibliographical references | M. Sabbe, 'Plantin et les "Amours" de Ronsard' in De Gulden Passer, 2, 1924, pages 110-115 Seymour Ricci, Catalogue of a unique collection of early editions of Ronsard, London, 1927, page 53, no. 20 (with reproduction of title-page) J. Guignard, 'A propos des editions françaises de Plantin' in De Gulden Passer, 34, 1956, pages 225-226 Not in Ruelens-de BackerCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6648 Sabbe, M. "Plantin et les 'Amours' de Ronsard", in: De Gulden Passer, 2(1924), pp. 110-115 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12918022STCV c:stcv:12918024 |
| Note 1 | Contains in four large sections poems by Ronsard, here and there interspersed with works by other poets: a) Les Amours (folios 1r-70r; containing also: Odes, 60r-70r; a 'sonet' by Nicolas Denisot, 59r); b) Continuation premiere et seconde des Amours (1r-80v; with its own title-page on 1r; containing: Continuation des Amours, 2r-25r; Gayeté, 25r-29v; L'Heure par Remi Belleau, 30r-31v; La cerise de Remi Belleau du Perche, 32r-34v; Le ciron de G. Aubert, 34v-37r; Lescargot de Remi Belleau, 37r-39v; Nouvelle continuation des Amours, 40r-74r; Traduction de trois sonets de P. de Ronsard par Remi Belleau [French sonnets with Latin translation], 74v-75v; Le rossignol cazanier de N. Mallot, 75v-79r; L'huitre de R. Belleau, 79r-80v); c) Le Bocage (1r-59r, with a poem 'à P. de Ronsard, 59v); d) Les Meslanges (60r-[108v]). |
| Note 2 | The name of Plantin is nowhere mentioned, but there are references to a 1557 Ronsard-edition in the Plantinian archives, while Sabbe, op. cit., page 112, comparing type, fleurons and initials used, proved beyond doubt that the publication described here must have been issued by the Plantin Press. |
| Note 3 | Reprint of three editions, published separately in Paris: Les Amours, Maurice de la Porte, 1553; Le Bocage, Maurice de la Porte, 1554; Les Meslanges, Gilles Corrozet and Vincent Sertenas, 1555 (cf. Guignard, op. cit., page 226). |
| Note 4 | Copies of this 1557 Plantin-edition are only known with the Rouen-address of N. le Rous and the Basel-address of A. Godinet (see following no.). Very likely, however, a number of copies must have shown Plantin's imprint, and perhaps other addresses as well. |
| Note 5 | The type and fleurons used on the title-page of both the Rouen- and the Basel-editions make it clear that they have been executed by the same press. Plantin does not seem to have been in direct relations with either N. le Rous or A. Godinet. The Parisian bookseller Arnould Langelier has perhaps acted as middleman. In any case, on 4 December 1556 Plantin shipped to Langelier a crate containing a large number of copies: 100 'les Amours, Continuations et Bocage de fin papier…et contient chacun desd. livres comprins les 4 ensemble le nombre de 33 feilles qui font 6 rames 12 mains: 9 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers'; 100 'Continuations seules de fin papier…contenant 10 feilles qui se montent 2 rames: 3 florins Carolus guilders'; 150 'Les Amours, Continuations et Bocage papier de Rouen…et contiennent comme dessus les 4 ensemble la pièce à 33 feilles qui font 9 rames 18 mains: 7 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers'; 150 'Continuations dessusd. papier de Rouen…contenant comme dessus 10 feilles: 2 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers' (Arch. 34, page 12). This entry implies that of the edition two versions were printed, one on 'fine paper', the other on somewhat cheaper 'paper of Rouen'. It makes also clear that of part of the edition extra-copies have been issued (and consequently have been put into circulation); namely the section with the second title-page (Continuation premiere et seconde des amours de P. de Ronsard, containing the 10 quires A-K, folios 1r-80v). Plantin's note of the shipment to Langelier makes a careful distinction between two consignments. It may be assumed that one of them was in fact intended for the Rouen-dealer, the other for the Basel-dealer. |
| Note 6 | Plantin sold other copies as well in 1557, 1558, 1559 and 1560: to Jacques Boschart, in Malines, one 'pour relier' and one '[qu'] il a prins pour son compte', worth 3½ stuivers, on 4 August 1557 (Arch. 38, folio 28v); to Jehan Steelsius 1 copy 'relié' on 13 October 1557 (Ibidem, folio 1v), to Jehan Bellart 100 copies on 12 November 1557 (? or 1556 ?) (Ibidem, folio 5v bis); to Jehan Steelsius 18 copies, worth 3 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers, on 14 March 1558 (Ibidem, folio 54v), to the same 1 bound copy, worth 5 stuivers, on 9 May 1559 (Ibidem, folio 58v); to Robert de Wall[encourt] 6 copies, worth 1 florins Carolus guilders 4 stuivers, on 19 January 1558 (Arch. 35, folio 6v); shipped to Paris on 12 March 1560 50 copies (Ibidem, folio 110r). In an undated note figure also, in a long list of Plantinian editions, 'pour envoyer' (= to Paris or Frankfurt ?), 100 copies, worth 10 florins Carolus guilders |
| Note 7 | Listed in M 296, folio 1v (Amours et opuscules de Ronsard, a⁰ 1557, f[euilles] 33, [price:] stuivers 4), and M 164, folio 2v. |
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