| Record ID | cp013107 |
| Voet reference number | 726 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Petrus BIZARUS (BIZARRI) |
| Title page transcription | SENATVS ‖ POPVLIQVE ‖ GENVENSIS ‖ RERVM DOMI FORISQVE ‖ GESTARVM HISTORIÆ ‖ ATQVE ANNALES: ‖ CVM LVCVLENTA VARIARVM ‖ rerum cognitione dignissimarum, quæ diuersis ‖ temporibus, & potissimùm hac nostra tempe- ‖ state contigerunt, enarratione. ‖ Auctore PETRO BIZARO SENTINATI. ‖ ⊕ 28 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ Architypographi Regij, ‖ M.D.LXXIX. |
| Collation | Folio [265]: A-Z⁶, a-z⁶, AA-XX⁶, aa-cc⁶, ††-†††⁶; pages [1-8], 1-802. [803-804], I-XXXV, [XXXVI], [1-24] (Errors: 41-42 for 42-43, 180 for 176; 598, 627, 682, 791 not numbered) |
| Fingerprint | 157902 - # a1 p2 nia$ : # a2 p3 mnib - # 1b1 A ti : # 1b2 Z4 è$pr - # 2b1 a $M : # 2b2 z4 app - # 3b1 2A enti : # 3b2 2X4 ausa$ce - # 4b1 2a2 $futu : # 4b2 2c4 mina - # c1 2+2 b.$ibid : # c2 3+3 ediunt.$ |
| Number of sheets | 217 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: illustration: coat-of-arms [3-7]: Serenissimo principi, augustissimo senatui, et reipublicae Genuensi (s. Petrus Bizarus, Antwerp, 2 January 1579; italic type) [8]: Ioannes Leunclavius Amelaeburanus nobilis Angrivarius, in Petri Bizari Historias et Annales, &c. (italic type) [1]-585: Text (marginals in italic type) [586-588]: Blank 589-802: Text (marginals in italic type) [803-804]: Ad candidum lectorem (italic type) [804]: Errata (italic type and roman type) [I]: Leges Novae Reipublicae Genuensis…(= title) [II]: Prooemium (italic type) III-XXXV: Text (parts in italic type) [XXXVI]: Blank [1-18]: Index (on three columns; italic type) [19]: approbation (s. Walterus vander Steeghen, Antwerp); Privilege (Antwerp, 9 June 1578, signed by Iac. Blyleven) [20-24]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut, 127 × 100, on page [2], showing two winged angels with the arms of the Republic of Genoa, and with the inscriptions aurea libertas (above), and vexillum genuen. (below). The cross in the arms of Genoa is printed in red |
| Variants | A. Error: in pagination 180 for 176 (Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 290). B. This error corrected (Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 297). |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus (A 290; A 297). Not checked which variant:Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonUtrecht University Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 204 (1579, no. 24) |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12925352USTC 401810 |
| Note 1 | Contains: a) The history of Genoa in 23 'books' from the beginning till 1578 (pages 1-585); b) Series of studies on expeditions or wars in which Genoa took part: De prima Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (pages 589-597), De secunda Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (598-599), De tertia Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (600-604), De quarta Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (604-609), De quinta Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (609-610), De sexta Christianorum in Syriam expeditione (611-615), De VII. Christianorum in Asiam expeditione (615), De VIII. et ultima Christianorum in Syriam seu Palestinam expeditione (616-617), De bello Saracenico seu Mauritano, per Genuenses gesto (617-626), De bello Pisano, liber I (627-655), De bello Pisano, liber II (655-681), De bello adversus Fridericum secundum imper. gesto liber (682-706), De bello Veneto liber I (707-743), De bello Veneto liber II (743-790); c) Perbrevis tractatus in quo summatim atque paucissimis verbis de universo reip. Genuensis statu et administratione disseritur (791-802); d) The laws of Genoa as promulgated in March 1576, pages III-XXXV, introduced by a title-page (page [I]: Leges novae reipublicae Genuensis, a legatis summi pontificis, caesaris et regis catholici, in quos per Rempublicam collata fuerat auctoritas, conditae, et Genuae die XVII. Martii M.D.LXXVI. publicatae). |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory no specific details are given about the genesis of the work. |
| Note 3 | The 'Historia rerum gestarum Genuensium per Pet. Bizarrum, in folio' is listed among the works issued by the Plantin Press in the past two years in Plantin's letter to J. Buyssetius, 10 December 1579 (Corr., VI, no. 851, page 115). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 8v (Historia Genevensium P. Bisarri in f⁰, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 3, 1579, f[euilles] -), and M 164, folio 4v (Bisarri Hist. Genevensium, f⁰, a⁰ 1579, f[euilles] 217, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 3). |
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