Record ID | cp012811 |
Voet reference number | 2386 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3218563 |
Author | Cornelius VALERIUS (WOUTERS) |
Title page transcription | PHYSICAE, ‖ SEV ‖ DE NATVRÆ ‖ PHILOSOPHIA ‖ INSTITVTIO, ‖ PERSPICVE ET BREVITER ‖ explicata à CORNELIO VALERIO ‖ Vltraiectino, publico linguæ Latinæ in ‖ collegio trilingui Buslidiano professore. ‖ ⊕ 17 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXVII. |
Collation | 8⁰ [112]: A-H⁸; pages 1-125, [126-128] |
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Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 3 September 1566, signed by I. De Witte) [3-8]: Generosis adolescentibus…dn. Carolo à Meloduno, principi Espinoiae…, dn. Petro à Werchinio, senescallo Hannoniae…, dn. Roberto à Meloduno, domino Richeburgi, etc. Cornelius Valerius Ultraiectinus S.D. (Louvain, 26 June 1566) 9-125: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) 125: Errata (italic type) [126-128]: Blank |
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Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1099CambridgeUniversity Library FreiburgGhent University LibraryMazarine, ParisVatican Apolstolic LibraryUniversity Library Wroclaw - Breslau |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 72 (1567, no. 17) Kuiper, Orbis Artium en Renaissance, page 356 |
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Note 1 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 112 verso, gives the following details about 'Phisica Cornelii Valerii': the wages for composing and printing are entered on 23 November 1566 and amount to 10 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers As each copy contains 8 sheets and as 900 copies were printed, 16 reams of paper were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders per ream, came to 16 florins Carolus guilders To these expenses were added 6 florins Carolus guilders 1 stuivers, being the price of the privilege and a fee for the scribe who had rewritten the manuscript ('Item couste à rescrire au net et le Privile[ge]'), bringing the overall costs to 32 florins Carolus guilders 9 stuivers 'Qui est environ ¾ [stuivers] la pièce'. |
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