| Record ID | cp012318 |
| Voet reference number | 1051 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Franciscus COSTERUS (DE COSTER) |
| Title page transcription | DE ‖ VITA ET LAVDIBVS ‖ Deiparæ MARIÆ virginis, ‖ MEDITATIONES ‖ QVINQVAGINTA: ‖ Auctore ‖ R.P. FRANCISCO COSTERO, ‖ Doctore Theologo Societatis IESV. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. 1587. |
| Collation | 16mo [93]: A-Z⁸, a-d⁸; pages 1-428, [429-432] (Errors: 195 for 295) |
| Fingerprint | 158716 - # 1b1 A2 mise : # 1b2 Z5 $De - # 2b1 a io : # 2b2 d5 mm |
| Number of sheets | 13.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-27: Sodalitati B. Virginis Mariae in Aquicinctensi Collegio Academiae Duacensis (s. Franciscus Costerus, Antwerp, 17 April 1587; italic type, parts and marginals in roman type, words in Hebrew) 28-41: Propositiones viginti pro catholico ritu orandi B. Virginis rosarium (parts in italic type, word in gothic type) 42: Ad lectorem (italic type) 43-428: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) [429]: approbation (Antwerp, 25 April 1587, signed by Silvester Pardo) [430-431]: Privilege (Brussels, 29 April 1587, s. I. de Witte; Fontainebleau, 5 August 1582, s. De Neufville) [432]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Variants | A. V. on title-page: woodcut B. V. on title-page: engraving. |
| Illustrations | 1) In variant A: V. on title-page: woodcut, 36 × 52, representing the Blessed Virgin with the Child, with at each side a kneeling man, surrounded by typographically printed texts: see no. cp010720 2) In variant B: engraving, 65 × 72, representing the Virgin and the Child (cf. Libellus sodalitatis, 1586: see no. cp010611) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1129: variant ARuusbroec Institute Library- 3114 K 5: variant AFranciscan Convent, Hasselt- variant ABibliothèques de l'UMONS- variant AMunicipal Library Taxandria, Turnhout- variant ARuusbroec Institute Library- 3114 M 7: variant BInstitute for Franciscan Studies, St Truiden (St. Trond)- variant BNot checked which variant: Allard PiersonCambridgeJagiellonian Library - Cracow (Poland)Biblioteca Nacional de EspañaBayerische StaatsbibliothekBodleian LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de FranceRL StockholmUniversity Library TübingenUniversity Library Wroclaw- BreslauUL Liège- R3596AKU Leuven- Maurits Sabbe Library, PN00182*;PN00175*;PN00643;PN00819;P279.313.0 COST Vita;P279.313.0 COST Vita;PN00295;PN00666UNamur- R16A0162, R4Z.0148- Rés.23F.12- Rés.23F.12bis |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 297-298 (1587, no. 11) Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.], 2, column 1517 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3937 Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), I, pages 875-876.Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.] II, 1517, nr. 3 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5511 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12915706USTC 413727 |
| Note 1 | Fifty meditations on the life and in praise of the Blessed Virgin. First edition. |
| Note 2 | In the foreword the author gives interesting details on the foundation of the College of Anchin at the Douai University and on the Sodalitas of the Blessed Virgin established in this college for the pupils. Extracts from the foreword and remarks on the subject in BB. |
| Note 3 | Details on this edition in some of Plantin's letters to Costerus: on 24-28 May 1587 Plantin states to have mailed in the past week four 'quaterniones' and sends now as many sheets of the 'Meditationum de vita B. Mariae' (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1257). A new set followed on 19 June 1587 (Ibidem, no. 1268). The rest was sent on 3 July 1587. Plantin adds in this letter that he will have copies bound to ship them where the author should indicate (Ibidem, no. 1276). On 16 July 1587 the printer notifies that 100 copies have been sent to Costerus's college ('collegium vestrum': at Douai ?), of which 50 will remain there as Costerus has ordered, whilst 50 were to be shipped to Costerus at Tournai, 'together with 4 copies bound in parchment and ornated with gold' (Ibidem, no. 1282; cf. also Plantin's letter of 27 August 1587: Ibidem, no. 1296). Somewhat later, on 27 August 1587, Plantin shipped to the Jesuit College at Douai another 300 'Meditationes B. Mariae 16⁰ cum cantico', worth 105 florins Carolus guilders, but considered to be a gift to Costerus and, consequently, not billed (Arch. 20, folios 21 and 321; for more details see no. cp010538). |
| Note 4 | In his letter of 16 July 1587 Plantin notes in passing that with the 100 copies of the 'Meditationes de Vita B. Mariae', were also sent 7 copies 'de Cantico (quas separatim vendere non statuit)': the De cantico Salve Regina septem meditationes, published in that same year 1587 (see no. cp013247), although formally presented as a separate edition, was thus in fact considered to form part of the Meditationes de vita B. Mariae and was sold with it. They are indeed entered together in M 321 (see further in the text; cf. also the shipment to Douai of the Meditationes B. Mariae 'cum cantico', mentioned above). |
| Note 5 | A Dutch and French translation are often mentioned in the correspondence between Plantin and Costerus during those years. A dedicatory to Alexander Farnese for the French edition was even drafted in 1588 by Plantin. But both translations appeared finally only after Plantin's death, in 1590 (and without the dedicatory to Farnese). In these same letters mention is often made of intaglio-illustrations which were to accompany the Meditationes (probably to be joined to a limited number of copies as in the Meditationes de Passione). A number of them must in fact already have been prepared, but they don't seem to have been used in any edition of the Meditationes B. Mariae (cf. Corr., VIII-IX, nos. 1306, 1315, 1355, 1362, 1404, 1427, 1429, 1488). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 321: 'De vita et laudibus Deiparae Mariae Virginis…, 16⁰, f[euilles] 13½. De cantico Salve Regina septem meditationes authore R.P. fran. Costero, 16⁰, f[euilles] 3½, soit ensemble f[euilles] 17, [price:] stuivers 7'. |
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