| Record ID | cp013263 |
| Voet reference number | 1643 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Uniform title | MARTYROLOGIUM ROMANUM |
| Title page transcription | MARTYROLOGIVM ‖ ROMANVM, ‖ Ad nouam Kalendarij rationem, & ‖ Ecclesiasticæ historiæ verita- ‖ tem restitutum, ‖ Gregorij XIII. Pont. Max. iussu editum. ‖ V. ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ M.D.LXXXVLI. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [145]: *⁸, **⁴, A-Z⁸, a-b⁸, c⁴; pages [1-24], 1-408 (Errors: 748 for 148). Printed in black and red |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-16]: Note on the calendar [17-24]: Rubricae Martyrologii 1-408: Text (parts in italic type) |
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| Illustrations | Engraving on the title-page, 71 × 86, showing all the saints (with the engraved inscription: MIRABILIS DEVS IN SANCTIS SVIS.). The style points to Pieter van der Borch |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- 8-218KBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonBiblioteca Nacional de España. |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 290 (1586, no. 8) C. de Clercq, 'Les éditions bibliques, liturgiques et canoniques de Plantin' in De Gulden Passer, 34, 1956, page 176 |
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| Note 1 | Reprint of a Lyons edition, itself following a Roman publication which Plantin had not been able to obtain (cf. Plantin's letter to H. Gravius, 28 June 1586 [Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1115]: 'In Martyrologii Romani editione sequutus sum exemplar mihi oblatum Lugduni ad exemplar Romanum (uti ferebat epistola praefixa illi editione) recusum, neque hactenus mihi licuit videre exemplar Romae excusum etiam si inter imprimendum a diversis petierim'). The Roman editio princeps was issued in 1582. The Lyons-reprint was published by Guillaume Rouillé with an approbatio dated Lyons, 4 March 1583 (cf. de Clercq, op. cit.). |
| Note 2 | In Rome a second edition appeared in May 1583, but it was only the third, finished in the beginning of 1584, which received the approbatio of Gregorius XIII and was promulgated by the Papal breve of 14 January 1584. Plantin, as he states in his letter to Gravius, had obtained in extremis the manuscript text of the Papal breve and intended to insert it in the edition of the Martyrologium he had just finished ('Paucis vero ab hinc diebus Rev. D. Pamelius ad me misit epistolam D. Gregorii 13. manuscriptam quam illico impressi ut hic vides praefigendam editioni nostrae…') (cf. also de Clercq, op. cit.). For some reason Plantin finally must have dropped the idea. Perhaps he had sensed (or had been warned) that in doing this he would commit a falsification. |
| Note 3 | On this edition, some references in letters of Plantin. On 4-15 April 1586 he wrote to the Archbishop of Malines that he has on his presses the Martyrologium, published at the demand of 'many [people]', and of which he will send the already finished sheets as 'specimen' (Corr., VII, no. 1090: '…uti Martyrologium quod rogantibus nonnullis praelo subjecimus et favente Deo brevi absolvemus, cujus folia impressa pro specimine mittimus, missuri reliquo suo tempore'). On 3 May 1586 he tells de Çayas that he will mail a copy of the 'Martyrologium Romanum a Gregorio XIII promulgatum' at the earliest occasion (Corr., VII, no. 1095). To Arias Montanus the printer explains, on 14 May 1586, that he recently finished a 'libellum Jesuiticum' and the Martyrologium Romanum 'pro duobus Bibliopolis uno Parisiensi (probably Michel Sonnius) altero Coloniensi (probably Arnold Mylius)' (Corr., VII, no. 1101). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 11v (Martyrologium Rom, 4⁰ [an error for in 8⁰], f[euilles] 27, [price:] stuivers 18), and Ms. 321 (in 8⁰). |
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