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Manuale catholicorum, 1588

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Voet reference number 890
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:1132873
Author Petrus CANISIUS
Title page transcription [Within double lines:]MANVALE ‖ CATHOLICORVM, ‖ IN VSVM PIE PRECANDI ‖ COLLECTVM ‖ A.R.P. Petro Canisio Societatis IESV, ‖ Doctore Theologo. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. 1588. ‖ Cum Priuilegio.
Collation 16mo [95]: A-Z⁸; pages 1-358, [359-368] (Errors: 11 and 13 not numbered). Title-page and calendar printed in black and red
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Pages [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 20 February 1588, signed by I. de Witte) 3-7: Serenissimo…D. Philippo comiti Palatino Rheni utriusque Bavariae duci, ecclesiae Ratisbonensis episcopo, etc. Petrus Canisius S.D.P. (Freiburg, 1587; italic type, title in red) 8: illustration with four lines text 9-12: Note on the calendar (parts in italic type) [13]-24: Calendar 25-358: Text (parts in italic type) [359-364]: Table (italic type, parts in roman type) [365]: illustration [366]: approbation (Antwerp, 26 January 1588, s. D. Henricus Dunghaeus) [367-368]: Blank
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Illustrations Intaglio-illustrations: 1) V. on title-page: copper engraving, 57 × 57, representing Christ on the Cross, with the letters IHS, within a laurel-wrath 2) 21 engravings, 57 × 57 (the representations within a small etched border of c. 7 mm.) on pages 25, 27, 37, 40, 71, 90, 125, 134, 153, 170, 189, 218, 250, 268, 299, 315, 332, 337, 341, 352, 365, and a larger one, 70 × 52, on page 8, representing scenes from the life of the Christ, religious allegorical figures, the administration of sacraments, etc. Very likely designed and etched by Pieter van der Borcht
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1282Municipal Library Roermond
Bibliographical references Ruelens-de Backer, page 308 (1588, no. 13) Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.], II, column 677 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 4003.
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Note 1 Contains: 16 'exercitia' (pages 25-358).
Note 2 Probably a reprint of the first editions: Freiburg, Abraham Gemperlin, 1587, and Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1587 (cf. De Backer-Sommervogel, II, Column 677).
Note 3 In a letter to F. Costerus, 10 August 1588, Plantin tells that he has on his presses the 'Exercitia Rev. P. Canisii' 'cum figuris ex descriptione D. Verepaei' (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1389). This must mean that the humanist Simon Verepaeus gave the instructions what should be illustrated and how (it is not very likely he made the actual designs for the engraver). In a letter to Simon Verepaeus, 31 August 1588, Plantin tells the scholar 'Post multas dificultates in figuris ab artificibus extorquendis tandem Manualis Catholicorum Reverendi admodum Patris Canisii impressionem absolvimus' and announced the mailing of a number of copies (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1400).
Note 4 In this letter Plantin specifies that he sent as many copies with copper engraving-illustrations as with woodcut-illustrations. A number of copies, consequently, had engravings (as in the copy described here), whilst another part of the edition received woodcuts. The prices varied accordingly. In M 296, folio 11v, is specified: 'Manuale Catholicorum P. Canisii, 16⁰, a⁰ 88, f[euilles] 11½, [price:] stuivers 5 [= for the copies with the woodcut-illustrations]; et cum figuris aeneis stuivers 10 [= for the copies with intaglio-illustrations]'. The same data are given in M 321.
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