| Record ID | cp012854 |
| Voet reference number | 1097 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:640036 |
| Author | Rembertus DODONAEUS (DODOENS) |
| Title page transcription | FLORVM, ET ‖ CORONARIARVM ‖ ODORATARVMQVE ‖ NONNVLLARVM ‖ HERBARVM ‖ HISTORIA, ‖ REMBERTO DODONÆO ‖ Mechliniensi Medico auctore. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXVIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: A-V⁸; pages 1-307 (= for 308), [309-320] (Errors: for 22, 307 for 308) |
| Fingerprint | 156808 - # b1 A2 ,$vi : # b2 V5 rea$r |
| Number of sheets | 20 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, Privy Council, 2 December 1567, signed by De Langhe, and Council of Brabant, 3 December 1567, s. De Langhe) [3]-12: Clarissimo…D. Ioachimo Hoppero, auratae militiae equiti, domino de Dalem, regis consiliario…Rembertus Dodonaeus medicus. S.P.D. (Malines, 5 January 1568; words in greek type) 13-289: Text (italic type, parts in roman type, greek type and gothic type, marginals in roman type and greek type) 290-307 (= for 308): Remb. Dodonaei ad lectorem epilogus (30 October 1567; parts in italic type and greek type, marginals in roman type) 307 (= for 308): approbation (s. Sebastianus Baer, Antwerp) [309-314]: Index (on two columns) [314]: Errata [315-317]: Index Graecarum vocum (on two columns; greek type) [318-319]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, s. Haller) [320]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 108 woodcuts representing plants; mostly c. 135 × c. 75 (some 19 of smaller format). See also Note 2 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 676Allard PiersonKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeKB National Library of the NetherlandsMunicipal Library Tournai |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 676 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 86 (1568, no. 35) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), II, page 213 Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), II, page 49, no. 514.Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 954 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:7038573USTC 401353 |
| Note 1 | Botanical study of the plants considered in the time of Dodonaeus to be remarkable for their flowers or their scent. The principal text (pages 13-289) has 101, the 'epilogus' (pages 290-307 [= for 308]) 7 illustrations. The study has been reproduced in the Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, 1583 (see no. cp010031), but with the different paragraphs dispersed and rearranged in a more systematical way. |
| Note 2 | The drawings on the wood-blocks were again made by Pieter van der Borcht: on his account was entered on 22 August 1567 for 'qu'il m'a pourtraict 107 figures coronariarum Dodonei' the sum of 26 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers, and (at a somewhat later date) for 'Item encores 3 figures de Coronariarum' 15 stuivers (Arch. 31, folio 90; cf. Arch. 3, folio 71: payment on 13 July 1567 of 25 florins Carolus guilders to Van der Borcht as advance-money on the 'pourtraicture des figures' of the 'Historia coronariarum Herbarum Dodonei'). The preparation of the wood-blocks, at least of 100 of them, by a carpenter, cost Plantin 3 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers (entered on 22 June 1567: 'Pour les bois à faire pourtraire les figures 100'. Arch. 3, folio 70). The woodcuts were executed by Arnold Nicolai and Gerard Janssen van Kampen. The former was paid 7 stuivers a piece but received finally an extra-payment of 1 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers at the complaint of his wife ('As donné davantage pourtant qu'elle se plaignoit que son mari s'estoit abusé au prix'). Nicolai delivered 71 blocks from 19 July to 18 October 1567 (36 on 19 July, 6 on 29 July, 9 on 29 August, 12 on 11 October, 8 on 18 October), whilst on 24 January 1568 Plantin remunerated two other blocks which Nicolai's wife claimed had not yet been paid (Arch. 31, folio 52; cf. Arch. 3, folio 72). Janssen van Kampen received 20 florins Carolus guilders for 20 'figures d'herbes de Dodonaeus' on 27 December 1567 (Arch. 31, folio 77). This makes together only 93 wood-blocks. Very likely the others were also executed by Janssen. |
| Note 3 | For some reason part of Dodonaeus's manuscript was rewritten by Martin Evrard, an operation paid by Plantin ('Historia coronariarum herbarum Dodonei…pour une partie dud[ict] livre copiée par Me Martin Evrard': 5 florins Carolus guilders; noted on 22 June 1567: Arch. 3, folio 70). |
| Note 4 | Carolus Clusius told Crato a Craftheim on 29 November 1566 that Dodonaeus was working on the publication ('Habet Dodonaeus in manibus Coronariarum plantarum historiam, et si per occupationes licebit, forsitan integram historiam absolvet': Suppl. Corr., no. 15). A year later, on 25 November 1567, the scholar could write to his friend that Dodonaeus had forwarded his manuscript to Plantin ('Dodonaeus stirpium coronariarum historiam Plantino typographo tradidit: eam ni fallor proximis nundinis habemus': Suppl. Corr., no. 46). The printing was already well advanced in January 1568 (letter of Plantin to Cardinal Granvelle, 29 January 1568 [Corr., I, no. 102]: 'J'imprime aussi Florum et coronariarum herbarum historia Remberti Dodonaei, avec les figures, lequel j'espère achever dedans 3 semaines'). The publication must indeed have been finished in February or March 1568 (cf. the letter of Plantin to Camerarius, 12 April 1568 [Suppl. Corr., no. 58] in which the typographer apologizes for having forgotten to bring with him to Frankfurt the 'Historia Florum Dodonaei'). |
| Note 5 | A copy of the work was mailed to Cardinal Granvelle (letter from Plantin to the Cardinal, 7 May 1568 [Corr., I, no. 125; Suppl. Corr., no. 63; to the Cardinal, 4 July 1568 [Corr., no. 139]; from the Cardinal to Plantin, 19 June 1568 [Suppl. Corr., no. 67]). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 6v (Florum historia eiusdem [= Dodonei], 8⁰, f[euilles] 20, [price:] stuivers 6) and folio 16v, and M 164, folio 13v. Cf. also following no. |
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