| Record ID | cp013111 |
| Voet reference number | 2418 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Emmanuel VEGA (DE VEGA) |
| Title page transcription | ASSERTIONES ‖ THEOLOGICAE, ‖ De augustissimo ‖ EVCHARISTIÆ ‖ SACRAMENTO, ‖ QVIBVS REFELLVNTVR, QVÆCVNQVE FERE ‖ nostræ tempestatis Sectarij, contra veram & realem ‖ præsentiam Christi in Eucharistia, & Transubstantia- ‖ tionem panis, & vini, in corpus, & sanguinem eius- ‖ dem, prodigiosè commenti sunt: ‖ Ab EMANVELE VEGA, in Academia Vilnensi, ‖ Societatis Iesu, Theologiae Professore, propositae. ‖ ⊕ 34 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXXXVI. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [150]: A-P⁴, Q⁶; pages 1-130, [131-132] |
| Fingerprint | 158604 - # b1 A2 nis$i : # b2 Q4 &$sa |
| Number of sheets | 16.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title 2: Typographus candido ac pio lectori (Antwerp, 15 October 1585; italic type) 3-4: Praefatio (italic type, parts in roman type, marginal in italic type) 5-130: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) [131]: Privilege (5 October 1585, signed by S. De Grimaldi) [132]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1605- A 16322Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of Belgium.KU Leuven- Special Collections, R5A6929UNamur- Rés.9G.36 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 289 (1586, no. 3) Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.], 8, column 526Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 7011 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12925856USTC 440833 |
| Note 1 | Theological treatise on the Eucharist. |
| Note 2 | In the foreword to the reader Plantin underlines that Antonius Possevinus, the Italian Jesuit, in those years as papal legate travelling in Poland and Moscovy, had sent this 'liber' from Vilna to Christophorus ab Assonlevilla, president of the Privy Council in Brussels, who forwarded it to Plantin to have it printed. The typographer obliged. |
| Note 3 | The 'liber' was very likely not a manuscript, but an edition printed in Vilna (or somewhere else in Poland or Lithuania). De Backer-Sommervogel, loc. cit., lists a publication without printer's address, which most certainly must have been the editio princeps reprinted by Plantin: 'Assertiones theologicae…(same title and qualification of the author as in Plantin's publication). Disputandae in eadem Academia [= of Vilna]. Anno M.D.LXXXV. Die…Iulii. 4⁰; 66 folios'. |
| Note 4 | Plantin must have published Vega's treatise more to oblige the powerful president of the Privy Council, than out of enthusiasm for the study. He let it be understood in a letter to d'Assonleville, 13 June 1586 (Corr., VII, no. 1111), where he says, without actually quoting the title of the edition (but referring in passing to Poland), that so far he had sold less than 25 copies of the work, of which the president had given him the copy some 8 or 9 months ago; a fact which enforces him in his resolution not to publish books which were already printed elsewhere and which could be received at the Frankfurt Fairs (= meaning that the original edition of Vega's Assertiones, printed in Vilna in 1585 or 1586, was as early and as easily available on the German market as Plantin's reprint, undercutting the latter's sales); but to coat the pill, the typographer continues 'si ce n'est par commandement de nos superieurs ou aux despends d'autruy'. |
| Note 5 | The work is mentioned in two other letters of Plantin, and again without much enthusiasm. In his epistle to de Çayas, 16 December 1585 (Corr., VII, no. 1054), the typographer states to have printed two treatises in 4⁰, one of them being 'Assertiones Christianae de Venerabili Sacramento': 'mais d'autant qu'ils [= the two 'livrets'] traictent ex professo les refutations des hereticques et que je n'estime pas qu'ils seroyent utiles par dela, j'envoye seulement les premieres feilles…'. In the other letter, to Arias Montanus, 14 May 1586, Plantin only says to have recently finished a 'libellum Jesuiticum' (Corr., VII, no. 1101). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 1r (Assertiones de sacram[ent]o Eucharistiae, 4⁰, f[euilles] 16½, [price:] stuivers 6), and M 321. |
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