| Record ID | cp013125 |
| Voet reference number | 1496 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Aulus PERSIUS FLACCUS |
| Title page transcription | D. IVNII ‖ IVVENALIS ‖ SATYRARVM ‖ LIBRI V. ‖ A. PERSII FLACCI ‖ SATYRARVM ‖ LIBER I. ‖ Omnia nunc operâ & iudicio ‖ viri docti emendata. ‖ ⊕ 42 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ M.D.LXXXV |
| Collation | 24mo [87]: A-G⁸; pages 1-111, [112] |
| Fingerprint | 158524 - # b1 A2 m$pæ : # b2 G5 teis$ |
| Number of sheets | 2.33 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-4: Nobilissimo viro D. Carolo Tisnako Christoph. Plantinus S.D. (Antwerp, 31 October; italic type) 5-95: Text of Juvenalis (part in greek type) 96-111: Text of Persius [112]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 747British Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12923924USTC 401187 |
| Note 1 | Small in 24mo edition, giving only the text without scholia or annotations. It was the first in the series of 'super pocket'-editions of classical authors started by Plantin in 1585, and including also editions of Virgilius, Horatius, Catullus-Tibullus-Propertius. |
| Note 2 | This series was intended in the first place for poor scholars and for travellers who wanted to carry with them a large number of books in a small space (cf. L. Voet, The Golden Compasses, II, page 165). The design is summarily explained in the dedicatory to de Tisnacq: 'Ecce nunc…poetas meliores omnes forma hac minuta excudi iussi, in usum peregrinantium (qui hodie multi) & scholastica iuventutis' (this dedicatory reproduced in Corr., VII, no. 1042). |
| Note 3 | As the address (= Apud Christophorum Plantinum) and the printer's mark indicate, this edition was in fact printed in Plantin's Leiden Press, after his return to Antwerp. The date of the dedicatory (31 October [1585]) suggests that the publication was done (or finished) before the arrival of Franciscus Raphelengius (early in 1586), when Plantin's wife was nominally still in control of the Leiden Press. It is possible that, as was the case for so many editions 'Apud Christophorum Plantinum' published in those years, a number of copies received a title-page with the Leiden-imprint, but no such copies are known. It is even not very likely that this was the case as the publication is dedicated to a powerful agent of Philip II, who was not very acceptable in the North or who himself would not have been delighted to see his name in a publication issued at the Calvinist hot-bed that Leiden represented in Catholic eyes. |
| Note 4 | The fact that this Juvenalis-Persius was printed in Leiden explains the anomaly of two Juvenalis-editions published by Plantin the same year (cf. preceding no.). |
| Note 5 | Plantin mailed a number of copies of the 'petit Juvenal' to personalities in Spain (de Çayas, Arias Montanus, de Tisnacq): cf. Corr., VIII-IX, nos. 1197, 1198, 1237, 1303, 1328, 1349. |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 321 (sub 1585, 'A Leyden': in-24º; f[euilles] 2½; price not noted). Not mentioned in M 296. |
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