| Record ID | cp013133 |
| Voet reference number | 583 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1082149 |
| Author | ARIAS MONTANUS (MONTANO) Benedictus |
| Title page transcription | BENEDICTI ‖ ARIÆ MONTANI ‖ ELVCIDATIONES ‖ IN ‖ OMNIA SANCTORVM ‖ APOSTOLORVM SCRIPTA. ‖ Eiusdem ‖ IN S. IOANNIS APOSTOLI ET ‖ EVANGELISTÆ APOCALYPSIN ‖ SIGNIFICATIONES. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini. ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVIII. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [170]: A-Z⁴, a-z⁴, AA-NN⁴, OO⁶; pages 1-481, [482-484] (Errors: 353 for 153) |
| Fingerprint | 158404 - # 1b1 A n$e : # 1b2 Z3 $en - # 2b1 a pe : # 2b2 z3 tiam$ - # 3b1 2A $qu : # *3b2 2O3 uissim |
| Number of sheets | 60.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-6: Ad sanctissimam matrem ecclesiam Romanam, eiusdemque pontificem maximum, et praesules omnes, Benedictus Arias Montanus (Madrid, 1 May 1587) 7-[482]: Text (pages 31-481 on two columns; text in roman type, notes in italic type, marginals in roman type and italic type) [483]: approbation (8 June 1587, signed by Waltherus vander Steeghen, Antwerp); Privilege (Brussels, 30 June 1587, s. I. de Witte) [484]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 25KBR Royal Library of BelgiumTrinity College, DublinUniversity Library EdinburghRoyal Library of San Lorenzo de El EscorialGöttingen State and University LibraryHarvard Library - Harvard University (USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Cambridge - MassachusettsTown Hall Library, LeicesterBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBayerische StaatsbibliothekBodleian LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de FrancePostel AbbeyVatican Apolstolic LibraryNational-bibliothek, Vienna |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 307 (1588, no. 7) Morales, no. 58 Palau y Dulcet, 1, page 474, no. 16484Robert Arpots, Plantijn in Nijmegen 6 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12922398 |
| Note 1 | Text of the Letters of the Apostles and of the Apocalypse, accompanied by comments explaining specific points, printed in the form of marginals (in italic type; parts in roman type), surrounding the texts (to the left on the even pages, to the right on the uneven pages, generally also underneath and sometimes above the text). The treatise starts with a Prohemium (pages 7-11) and the chapter 'De Christi Iesu veritate disputatio' (pages 12-30). Each of the following chapters is preceded by a summary and two of them (ad Hebraeos and Apocalypsis) also by a praefatio. |
| Note 2 | Arias Montanus wrote his comments at different times. The dates are given at the end of each chapter: 'De Christi Iesu veritate disputatio' was finished at Aracena, August 1564; the letters of Paulus: Rome, 31 July 1575 (ad Romanos), Madrid, 1577 (ad Corinthos), Aracena, 1579 (ad Galatos), Aracena, 1580 (ad Ephesios; ad Philippenses), Carpantanus ager, 1585 (ad Colossenses), Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1585 (ad Thessalonienses), Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1586 (ad Timotheum, ad Titum, ad Philomenon, ad Hebraeos); letters of the other Apostles: Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1586 (Jacobus, Petrus, Joannes), Sevilla, 1586 (Judas). The Apocalypsis is not dated. |
| Note 3 | The work was so well advanced at the beginning of 1586, that Arias Montanus could write to Plantin on 1 February of that year: 'Nam quas in Pauli Epistolas, dum Romae essem, elucidationes meditari occeperam, quarumque ad te miseram specimen, hachyeme hoc in carcere [= the Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial] prosequutus ad postremae medium, Deo propitio perduxi, curaboque eodem favente, idem operae et in Canonicis ponere…' (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VII, no. 1071, page 270). |
| Note 4 | Plantin, in a letter of 27 March 1587, expresses his willingness to print the comments of his friend (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1236: 'Elucidationes tuas in Paulum et Canonicas desideramus daturi praelo statim ubi exemplar receperimus et facultatem impetraverimus'). The manuscript was then already on the way to Antwerp, as at the end of May or the beginning of June 1587 it could be forwarded to the censor Van der Stegen (letter of Plantin to Arias Montanus, 3-7 June 1587, and of Van der Stegen to Arias Montanus, 10 June 1587: Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, nos. 1263 and 1265). The censor promptly wrote his approbatio (it is dated 8 June 1587). The privilege could also be obtained in a short time and the printing started in the second half of September 1587 (letter of Plantin to Arias Montanus, 16 September 1587: Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1303). On 19 November 1587 the first proofsheets were sent to the author. In the accompanying letter the typographer explains that he used a larger type-body than in Arias's preceding book because of the complaints that had been made about the smallness of the print: 'Mitto 10 folia Elucidationum in Epist. Apost. in quibus majori charactere quam in priori libro utimur quod multi conquesti fuissent de exilitate…' (Correspondance de C. Plantin, VIII-IX, no. 1320). The last were mailed on 9 April 1588 (Ibidem, nos. 1364 and 1365; see also nos. 1333, 1349, 1360, 1369; over the shipment of finished copies [more than 50] to Arias Montanus and to Jan Poelman at Salamanca: Ibidem, nos. 1383, 1393, 1399, 1414, 1420). |
| Note 5 | M. Sabbe, in his study on the relationship between Arias Montanus and the heterodox 'prophet' Barrefelt, proves beyond doubt that Arias Montanus for his comment on the Apocalypse made a large use of a treatise by Barrefelt on this Biblical text (the Spanish theologian must have received a French translation of the original Dutch text through the intermediary of Plantin). In a letter of 1 February 1586 to Plantin he asked Barrefelt's permission to use this comment. He received from Plantin a positive answer on 3-7 June 1587. In the foreword to the Apocalypse Arias declares openly and frankly that 'Christianae veritatis viventis testis, cui nomen ipsa Christi virtus et veritas Hhiel [= the name used by Barrefelt in his writings] indidit' was the first to have made him understand the symbolic meaning of the Apocalypse. |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 11 verso, andM 321 (Benedicti Ariae Montani Elucidationes in omnia Sanctorum Apostolorum scripta, eiusdem in S. Joannis Apostoli et Evangelistae Apocalypsin significationes, 1588, f[euilles] 60½, [price:] stuivers 21, 4⁰). |
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