| Record ID | cp012883 |
| Voet reference number | 1413 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132960 |
| Author | Jan-Baptist HOUWAERT |
| Title page transcription | DE VIER WTERSTE, ‖ VAN DE DOOT, ‖ VAN HET OORDEEL, ‖ VAN D'EEVWICH LEVEN, ‖ VAN DE PYNE DER HELLEN. ‖ Waerinne een ieghelijck (als in eenen claren spieghel) mach sien, ende leeren, ‖ hoe hy wel ende deughdelijck leuen, salich steruen, ende in d'eeuwighe glo- ‖ rie comen sal: seer nootsakelijck, stichtelijck, ende uyter mate proffijteliick, ‖ voor alle sterffelijcke menschen ghelesen. ‖ Schrifturelijck gheinuenteert, ende Rhetorijckelijck ghecomponeert, by ‖ Iehan Baptista Houwaert Consiellier, ende Meester ordinaris, van de ‖ Rekeninghen des Hertoghdoms van Brabant. ‖ D'Annotatien sijn by den voors. Autheur daer naerderhant by ghestelt. ‖ Syrach 7. Memorare nouissima tua, ‖ Syrach 28. Et in æternum non peccabis. ‖ Wilt wel op v uyterste sonden / achten / ‖ Ghy suit v inder eeuwicheyt van sonden / wachten. ‖ ⊕ 34 ‖ T'ANTWERPEN, ‖ By Christoffel Plantijn. ‖ M.D.LXXXIII. |
| Collation | 4º [152]: *⁸, **, A-X⁸; pages [1-20], 1-335, [336] (Errors: 5 not numbered, 87 for 78) |
| Fingerprint | 158304 - # a1 *2 //$v : # a2 2*2 lorie$ - # b1 A r : # b2 X5 ht$he |
| Number of sheets | 44.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Antwerp, 30 April 1583, signed by W. Luycx) [3]: Emblem with poems (italic type and roman type) [4]: illustration, with poem in italic type [5]: illustration [6]: Ioannis Bochii Bruxellensis ad Ioannem Baptistam Houwaert epigramma (italic type) [7-8]: Poem in Dutch to the author by Anthonis Coppens (civilité type) [9-11]: Edelen…heeren, Olivier vande Tympel, heere van Corbeke, Overdijle, Sombeke, Melen, etc., gouverneur der stadt van Brussele…(Brussels, s. Iehan Baptista Houwaert; italic type, parts in roman type) [12-19]: D'auteur totten goetwillighen leser (part in italic type) [20]: I. Ian van der Noot, patricius van Antwerpen aen I. Ian Baptista Houwaert…(italic type) 1-335: Text (civilité type, parts in roman type, marginals in italic type) [336]: [within cartouche:] HIER EYNDET HET ‖ STICHTENDE BOECK ‖ VAN DE VIER WTERSTE |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | A. Copper engravings: 1) On page [4] portrait of the author (medallion within cartouche with allegorical representations; around medallion the name of the author [Iehan Baptista Houwaert] and his device [Houdt Middel Mate]), 160 × 122. Underneath 4 verses on two columns, printed typographically. The same portrait has also been reproduced in Pegasides pleyn (see no. cp010233) 2) On page [5] the coat-of-arms of the author (medallion within cartouche with allegorical representations; around the medallion the name of the author and his device), 160 × 122. The same illustration also reproduced in Pegasides pleyn (see no. cp010233) B. Woodcuts: 1) On page [3] allegorical representation of the device of the author 'Houdt Middel Mate', c. 107 × 86, with above and underneath poems on this device, printed typographically. The same illustration also reproduced in Pegasides pleyn (see no. cp010233) 2) On page [336] cartouche, 77 × 112 Digitisation of the woodblocks |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 1606 ↗↗KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryKB National Library of the NetherlandsMaatschappij der Nederlandse LetterkundeBritish Library LondonBibliothèque nationale de FrancePostel Abbey |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 63.9: 27 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 259-260 (1583, no. 28) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), III, page 539 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 3803 H. Carter-H.D.L. Vervliet, civilité types, 1966, no. 214 Van Vinckenroye (see Notes) Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 1533 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12926142USTC 407870 |
| Note 1 | Moralizing poem on 'The Four Extremities [of Man], of the Death, of the [Last] Judgment, of the Eternal Life, of the Torment of Hell: in which everyman (as in a clear mirror) may see and learn how to live well and virtuously, to die blessed, and to come into the eternal glory: very necessary, edifying, and very profitable to be read by all mortal men'. With marginals referring to the Biblical, classical and other sources. On the title-page is stated 'the annotations [= the marginals] were put there by the author afterwards', without specifying what precisely is meant. |
| Note 2 | Re-edited with an exhaustive introduction and annotations by F. Van Vinckenroye, J.B. Houwaert, De Vier Wterste. Tekstuitgave met inleiding, verklarende aantekeningen en glossarium, 3 vols., Ghent, 1965. |
| Note 3 | The poem must have met a real success as not less than 5 reprints were published in the following years: in 1598 (The Hague), 1605 (The Hague), 1613 (The Hague), 1614 (Leeuwarden), and 1616 (Amsterdam) (cf. BB, III, pages 539-540). |
| Note 4 | Of the edition 1,250 copies were ed (Arch. 788). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 20r (Vier wterste vande doot etc. van Bapt.a Houwaert, f[euilles] 44½, [price:] stuivers 12), and M 321 (De vier wterste…,4º, f[euilles] 44½, met 2 copere figure [= with 2 copper engravings], [price:] stuivers 12). |
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