| Record ID | cp013329 |
| Voet reference number | 1287 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Franciscus HARAEUS (VERHAER) |
| Title page transcription | QVINQVAGINTA-DVAE ‖ VITÆ SANCTORVM ‖ SELECTIORES SIMVL ‖ ET COMMVNIORES: ‖ Hoc est, ‖ Pro vnaquaque, si libet, anni Dominica ‖ vnum aliquod insignius vitæ verè Chri- ‖ stianæ exemplar, sparsim ad instructionem ‖ omnis generis hominum. ‖ Opusculum epitomasticῶs collectum ex prolixioribus ‖ Vitis doctissimi Fratris Laurentij Surij, summa ‖ fide, atque adeò vt plurimum etiam verbotenus, ‖ Per eximium virum, S. Theologiæ Licentiatum, ‖ D. & M. Franciscum Verhaer, Vltraiectinum. ‖ ⊕ 35 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXVIII. |
| Collation | 16mo [94]: A-Z⁸, a⁸; pages 1-373 (= for 379), [380-384] (Errors: 367 for 267, 369 for 269, 425 for 325, 464 for 364, 368 not numbered, 373 for 379) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 7 December 1587) [3]-4: Collector pio lectori 5-10: Index (italic type) 11-367: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in italic type and roman type) [368]-372: Annotationes (parts in italic type) 372-373 (= for 379): Index (roman type, parts in italic type) [380-382]: Index (italic type) [383]: approbation (25 October 1587, signed by Michaël Hetsroey Breugelius, Antwerp) [384]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 470- A 728Trinity College Library- V. 7. 26Major Seminary Ten Duinen BrugesBiblioteca Nacional de Portugal |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 309 (1588, no. 17) |
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| Note 1 | Collection of 52 biographies of saints, compiled and summarized from the De probatis sanctorum historiis of the German Carthusian Laurentius Surius (1522-1578), published in 6 volumes in Cologne in 1570-75; itself an adaptation of the Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitae of the Italian hagiographer, Aloysius Lipomanus (published in Venice in 8 volumes, 1551-60, and in Louvain in 2 volumes, 1564). Cf. the enumeration of the saints treated, in E. Cockx-Indestege and G. Glorieux, Belgica typographica, I, Bibliotheca Regia Bruxellensis, no. 1381. On Surius and his work: P. Holt, 'Die Sammlung von Heiligenleben des Laurentius Surius' in Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 44, 1922, pages 341-364; P. Holt, 'L. Surius in die kirchliche Erneuerung im 16. Jahrhundert' in Jahrbücher des Kölnischen Geschichtsverein, 6/7, 1925, pages 52-84; B.A. Vermaseren, De katholieke Nederlandsche geschiedschrijving in de XVIe en XVIIe eeuw over den opstand, Maastricht, 1941, pages 15-18. |
| Note 2 | In a letter of 5 January 1588, answering an epistle of Haraeus of 30 December [1587], Plantin explained to the author that he was willing to publish the work, that he had sent it to Brussels to obtain the privilege, which he had received some days ago (the privilege is dated 7 December 1587), and that he is now waiting for a press to be free to start printing (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1340). |
| Note 3 | Reprinted by Jan Moretus in 1590 and 1594 (copies in Museum Plantin-Moretus and KBR Royal Library of Belgium). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v (Vitae sanctorum in epitomen p[e] r f. Hareum, 8º, aº 88, f[euilles] 1216º, [price:] stuivers 5; this entry got somewhat mixed up: not an in 8º, whilst 1216º has to be read f[euilles] 12, in 16º), and M 321 (in 16º, f[euilles] 12, [price:] stuivers 5). |
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