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Emblematum libri II, 1566

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Record ID cp012983
Voet reference number23
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:1132809
Author Andreas ALCIATUS (ALCIATI)
Title page transcriptionEMBLEMATVM ‖ 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.
Collation16mo [87]: A-Q⁸; pages 1-250, [251-256] (Errors: 7 for 97, 04 for 104, 110 for 120, 3 for 135)
Fingerprint156612- # b1 A2 nfi : # b2 Q5 tio$i
Number of sheets10.50
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
IllustrationsWoodcuts: 136 illustrations, mostly c. 35 × c. 50 (original wood-blocks in Museum Plantin-Moretus)
CopiesMuseum 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 referencesSTCV c:stcv:12920686USTC 405316
Note 1Reprint 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 2According to the colophon the printing was finished on 20 October 1566.
Note 3The 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 4The 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 5This 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 6Listed 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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