| Record ID | cp013151 |
| Voet reference number | 598 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Corporate Author | ARTOIS: COUNTY |
| Title page transcription | LES ‖ COVSTVMES ‖ GENERALES DV ‖ CONTE D'ARTOIS, ‖ NOVVELLEMENT ‖ DECRETE'ES: ‖ AVEC celles de Betune, Lens, sainct ‖ Omer, & sainct Pol. ‖ LES Ordonnances & stilz de la chambre d'Artois: ‖ auec plusieurs autres specifiés en la page suiuante. ‖ EN ARRAS, ‖ Par Iehan Bourgeois pres le petit marché ‖ deuant l'Eglise sainct Geri. ‖ M.D.LXVI. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 16mo [88]: A-X⁸, Y⁵; pages 1-345, [346] (Errors: 6 for 16, 79 for 90, 49 for 94, 119 for 109, 104 for 140, 211 for 221, 116 for 316) |
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| Number of sheets | |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: 'Le contenu de ce livret' (italic type); Privilege (to J. Bourgeois; signed by de Zoete) [3-5]: Decree of Charles V on the 'Coutumes du comté d'Artois' and their promulgation (italic type) [6]: Blank 7-345: Text (parts in italic type) [346]: Note by the clerk [= greffier] of the Council of Artois stating that he had collated the text of the edition with the original text of the Coutumes at the request of J. Bourgeois, 8 April 1546 old style, signed by A. de Latre |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | KBR Royal Library of Belgium - LP III 68530 |
| Bibliographical references | Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
| Online bibliographical references | |
| Note 1 | Codification of the law of the County of Artois: the general customary law (Coutumes generales) of Artois and its dependencies (Bethune, Lens, St. Omer, St. Pol), the procedure to be used in the Council of Artois ('ordonnances, stils et usaiges de la Chambre du Conseil provincial d'Artois'), a series of decrees of Charles V on particular points of criminal and civil law. |
| Note 2 | The name of Plantin is not quoted in the work, but in M 164, folio 7 verso, and M 296, folio 4 recto, it is stated that the edition was printed by Plantin for J. Bourgeois: 'Coustumes d'Artois pour Jehan Bourgeois d'Aras, 16⁰, f[euilles] -, [price:] stuivers 4'. Cf. also Arch. 44, folio 28 verso, and Arch. 40, opening 30 left (see below). |
| Note 3 | Moreover, the cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 95 verso, gives following details about 'Coustumes d'Artois 16⁰': the wages for composing and printing are entered from 12 January till 9 March 1566 and amount to 24 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers As each copy contains 11 sheets and as 1,250 copies were printed, 28 reams of paper were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers per ream, came to 36 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 61 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers 'Mis à compte b - : 96 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers à 3 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers la rame'. In fact, Plantin seems to have charged only 3 florins Carolus guilders per ream and the total sum of 84 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers: 'Nota que Jan Bourgeois D'Arras doibt pour limpression et papier des Coustumes d'Artois 16⁰ lesquelz avons imprimé pour luy dont le maistre a faict le compte comme sensuit. Il contient f[euilles] 11 a 1250 lesquelz font rames 28 et deux mains à 3 florins Carolus guilders la rame; monte en tout la somme de florins Carolus guilders 84 stuivers 6' (Arch. 44, folio 28 verso; retaken in Arch. 40, opening 30 left). |
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