| Record ID | cp012983 |
| Voet reference number | 23 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132809 |
| Author | Andreas ALCIATUS (ALCIATI) |
| Title page transcription | EMBLEMATVM ‖ CLARISSIMI VIRI D. ‖ ANDREAE ALCIATI ‖ LIBRI II. ‖ In eadem succincta commentariola, nunc multo, ‖ quàm antea, castigatiora & longè locupletoria, ‖ Sebastiano Stockhamero Germano, auctore. ‖ ⊕ 18 ‖ ANTVERPIAE. ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini: ‖ CIƆ. IƆ. LXVI. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 16mo [87]: A-Q⁸; pages 1-250, [251-256] (Errors: 7 for 97, 04 for 104, 110 for 120, 3 for 135) |
| Fingerprint | 156612- # b1 A2 nfi : # b2 Q5 tio$i |
| Number of sheets | 10.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 26 May 1564, signed by I. Fabri) 3-5: Magnifico…domino Ioanni Menesio Sotomaior, domino in Gantanhede &c. Seb. Stockhamerus Germanus S.D. (Coïmbra, 1 March 1563) 6: Clarissimi viri D. Andreae Alciati in suorum emblematum libellum praefatio, ad…D. Conradum Peutingerum…(italic type) 7-250: Text (parts in italic type and greek type) [251]: Blank [252]: EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS ANTVERPIAE. ‖ XIII. KALEND. NOVEMB. ‖ ANNO M.D.LXVI [253-256]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 136 illustrations, mostly c. 35 × c. 50 (original wood-blocks in Museum Plantin-Moretus) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - 8-458: pages 185-186 missingStaats- und Stadtbibliothek AugsburgUniversity Library LMUVatican Apolstolic Library. Green mentions also copies in the 'Imperial Library' of Berlin, Aarau, Besançon and Siena |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: 8 458 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 64-65 (1566, no. 39) Green, H.Andrea Alciati and his Books of Emblems, no. 73 Duplessis, G. Les livres à gravures du XVIe siècle, no. 76 Landwehr, J. Emblem-Books in the Low Countries, 1554-1949, no. 9Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5021 Landwehr, J. Emblem & fable books (3rd ed.) 13 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12920686USTC 405316 |
| Note 1 | Reprint of the edition of 1565, but with the addition of 24 woodcut-illustrations: the first book, with its 113 emblems, has still 112 illustrations as in 1565, but in the second book 24 of the 85 emblems are now illustrated. |
| Note 2 | According to the colophon the printing was finished on 20 October 1566. |
| Note 3 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 103 verso, gives but a few details about 'Alciati Emblemata cum comment'. The wages for composing and printing are entered from 8 September till 25 October 1566, and amount to 19 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers, but the reams of paper used, the price of the paper and the number of copies printed are not given. |
| Note 4 | The expenses for the additional wood-blocks of the 2nd book are already entered in the cost-accounting note of the 1565-edition (Arch. 4, folio 66 verso): 'pour la pourtraicture et taille de 29 figures [in fact only 24 were used] du 2. livre', at 8½ stuivers for the drawings and 8 stuivers for the cutting, 23 florins Carolus guilders 9½ stuivers The drawings were made by the Paris draughtsman G. Ballain, who was paid for them as early as 10 April 1565 (Arch. 3, folio 25 recto), the wood-blocks were cut by A. Nicolai in April-June 1565 (Arch. 31, folio 51 recto). |
| Note 5 | This edition, bearing the date of 1566, had in fact been printed after the edition described in following no. and showing the date of 1567. |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 5 verso (Eadem [Emblemata Alciati] cum c[ommen] t[ari] o in 16⁰, f[euilles] 8, [price:] stuivers 2½), and M 164, folio 10 verso. |
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