Record ID | cp012518 |
Voet reference number | 622 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3242184 |
Author | Jacobus BARLAEUS (VAN BAERLE) |
Title page transcription | [Heading:] NVMMI ALIQVOT ÆNEI HOC TEMPORE ‖ DIFFICILLIMO IN BELGIO PERCVSSI; ‖ Ab IACOBO BARLAEO paraphrasticω̄s explanati. |
Collation | Broadside (337 × 277) |
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Pages | From top to bottom: 1) Heading 2) Series of 4 medals of which are shown recto- and verso-side, each of the 8 reproductions with a 4 lines Latin poem printed underneath (in italic type) 3) Antwerpiæ excudebat Andreas Sporus. ‖ M.D. LXXXI |
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Illustrations | 1) The eight illustrations (diameter 33) are engraved in copper on a great plate (280 × 170), under each other, in series of two (= recto- and verso-side). The heading and the poems are printed typographically within this plate; the publisher’s address is printed underneath the plate |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - R 37.4 [63] |
Bibliographical references | Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), I, pages 132-133 |
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Note 1 | The medals (bearing the dates 1566, 1573, 1574, 1575) have a ‘patriotic’ character, as do the inscriptions: without referring directly to the struggle against Spain, they magnify the ideas of patria and libertas. Described in Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.) . |
Note 2 | Andreas Sporus was in 1581 a journeyman in Plantin’s printingoffice: it may be assumed that Plantin printed and published the text, but preferred to put the name of his employee on the broadside (cf. Rooses, M. Musée Plantin-Moretus, page 166). |
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