| Record ID | cp012848 |
| Voet reference number | 1184 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Petrus FONTIDONIUS (FUENTIDUENAS) |
| Title page transcription | PETRI ‖ FONTIDONII ‖ SEGOVIENSIS, ‖ DOCTORIS THEOLOGI, ‖ CANONICI SALMANTINI ‖ Apologia, pro sacro & oecumenico Con- ‖ cilio Tridentino aduersus Ioannem Fa- ‖ bricium Montanum ad Germanos. ‖ Item oratio habita ad patres in sacro Concilio Tridentino no- ‖ mine Catholici & inuictissimi regis Hispaniarum Philippi ‖ secundi. ‖ Conciones duæ habitȩ ad eandem sacrosanctam Sy- ‖ nodum, altera Dominica sanctissimæ Trinitatis, ‖ altera verò in natali diui Hieronymi, anno 1562. ‖ Accesserunt iis etiam tres aliæ Orationes habitæ Romæ ad Pium V. ‖ Pontificem Max. prima in die natali sancti Ioannis Euangelistæ; al- ‖ tera in die ascensionis Domini: tertia in die omnium sanctorum, anno ‖ 1571. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi regij. ‖ M.D. LXXIIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [133]: A-Z⁸, a⁴; pages 1-373, [374-376] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, Privy Council, 30 July 1572, signed by De la Torre, and Council of Brabant, 12 September 1572, s. I. de Witte) 3-12: Illustrissimo ac reverendissimo domino D. Stanislao Hosio, cardinali et episcopo Varmiensi, Petrus Fontidonius S.D. (italic type) 13-373: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) 373: approbation (s. Henricus Dunghen, Antwerp) [374-375]: Lectoribus piis bonarumque litterarum studiosis omnibus Benedictus Arias Montanus S. (italic type) [376-: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 602KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryKU Leuven- Maurits Sabbe Library, PN00953UNamur- R6A.0413, SJA.4.057F.1 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 146-147 (1574, no. 16) Palau y Dulcet, 5, page 522, no. 95509. |
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| Note 1 | Apology of the Council of Trente, more especially addressed to the Germans and aiming at refuting the attacks on the Council by Joannes Fabricius Montanus (in a pamphlet which Fontidonius had found circulating at Trente; Fabricius Montanus is most certainly the pseudonym of someone who preferred to remain unknown) (pages 13-193), followed by some 'orationes' held by Fontidonius in Italy: 'Oratio' at the Council, in the name of Philip II, 21 May 1563 (pages 194-218); Answer of the Council at the admission of the count of Luna, 'orator' of Philip II, 21 May 1563 (pages 219-221); 'Concio' at the Council, 24 May 1562 (pages 222-262); 'Concio' at the Council, 30 September 1562 (pages 263-305); 'Oratio' to Pope Pius V, 27 December 1570 (pages 306-327); 'Oratio' to Pope Pius V, [24 May 1571] (pages 328-352); 'Oratio' to Pope Pius V, 1 November 1571 (pages 353-373). |
| Note 2 | Probably a reprint of the edition published with the same title in Salamanca, Joannes Baptista a Terranova, 1568-1569 (cf. Palau y Dulcet, loc. cit.), to which were added the three orationes of 1570-1571. |
| Note 3 | Plantin was pressed into publishing this work. In the note to the readers at the end of the work (pages [374-375]) Arias Montanus gives some interesting details about the genesis of the publication. He explains how Cardinal Hosius mailed the manuscript of Fontidonius (= very likely of the three orationes of 1570-1571) from Rome to Plantin, urging the typographer in an accompanying letter to print it. When Arias Montanus was at Rome (April-December 1572), the cardinal recommended him personally the publication, and so did a number of other 'piissimi et prudentissimi viri'. Arias Montanus passed the message, and Plantin did what was asked from him…De Çayas too had from Spain incited Plantin to put Fontidonius's text on his presses (letter to Plantin, 22 March 1574: Corr., IV, no. 522). |
| Note 4 | The printing was finished in August-September 1574, as Plantin in a letter to Alanus Copus in Rome, 9 October 1574, afiirms that he sent Copus a copy some two or three weeks before (Corr., IV, no. 565). The publication is mentioned in some other letters from Plantin to Alanus Copus (Corr., IV, no. 571, page 177 [20 October 1574], no. 575 [26 October 1574], no. 596 [1 January 1575]). The mailing of copies to Spain is announced in a letter from Plantin to de Çayas, 1 November 1574 (Corr., IV, no. 582). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 6v (Fontidonii Apologia adversus fabritium, 8⁰, 1574, f[euilles] 23½, [price:] stuivers 6), and folio 14v, and M 164, folio 13v. |
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