| Record ID | cp013342 |
| Voet reference number | 1951 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1077232 |
| Author | Gabriel SYMEON (SIMEONI) |
| Title page transcription | LES ‖ DEVISES ‖ HEROIQVES, ‖ De M. Claude Paradin, Chanoine ‖ de Beaujeu, ‖ Du Seigneur Gabriel Symeon, ‖ & autres Aucteurs. ‖ ⊕ 13 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin. ‖ M.D.LXVII. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 16mo (113 × 71): A-V⁸; pages 1-317, [318-320] (Errors: 62 for 26, 26 for 62, 87 ?, 273-274 for 274-275, 277-278 for 278-279, 281-282 for 282-283, 285-286 for 286-287, 414 for 314) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, signed by Boudewijns) 3-5: A tresnoble seigneur, monsieur Theode de Marze, chevalier, baron, et seigneur dudit lieu, de Belle-Roche, Lassenaz, etc. Claude Paradin Salut (italic type) 6-270: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) 271: LES DEVISES OV ‖ EMBLEMES HEROIQVES ‖ du Seigneur Gabriel Simeon [woodcut-emblem with explanation] 272-317: Text (parts in italic type) [318-320]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 216 woodcuts. The same as in the 1561 and 1562 editions, with two exceptions: the illustrations on page 93 (in the 1562-edition: folio 52r) and page 95 (in the 1562-edition: folio 52v) have been recut |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 217KBR Royal Library of BelgiumUniversity of Glasgow Library - Glasgow (Great Britain)Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 76-77 (1567, no. 31) Praz, M. Seventeenth-Century Imagery, page 445 J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1970, no. 467 J. Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 1976, no. 569 |
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| Note 1 | Reprint of the 1561- and 1562-editions, with the same illustrations. |
| Note 2 | Plantin's possessions, including his stock of wood-blocks, were sold on 28 April 1562 (see preceding no.). He was perhaps able to keep the illustrations of the Devises heroiques or could buy them back from those who had acquired them at the auction. In an inventory 'Figures p[ar] inventaire faict le 12 juillet 1566 (? or 65 ?)' are listed '194 Devises Heroiques', estimated 36 florins Carolus guilders (Arch. 36, folio 58). |
| Note 3 | In 1563 were issued at Antwerp other editions of Paradin-Symeon: a French edition, published by the widow of J. Steelsius and printed by J. Latius (copy in Museum Plantin-Moretus, A 12912), a Latin translation, by the same (copy in Museum Plantin-Moretus, 8-15), and a Dutch translation, published by W. Silvius (mentioned by Landwehr, no. 472). We could not examine the Silvius-edition, but the two publications by the widow of J. Steelsius have woodcut-illustrations, which were very likely copied from Plantin's edition but are in any case different from them. In the French edition of Steelsius, however, the privilege reproduced was the one for Plantin, 4 February 1560, s. Boudewyns (N.B.: in the editions of Plantin the privilege is either not mentioned except on the title-page or, as in this no., only summarily quoted without the date being given; but, anyway, the privilege was granted to Plantin on 4 February 1560 and is still preserved in Museum Plantin-Moretus: Arch. 1179, no. 16). It seems, consequently, that some of Plantin's Antwerp competitors profited by his temporary disappearance to 'take' over his privilege and to publish editions of his Paradin-Symeon, but they did not use (in any case not the Steelsius-firm) his wood-blocks. |
| Note 4 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 102, gives the following details about 'Devises heroiques en françois': the wages for composing and printing are entered on 25 October 1566 and amount to 22 florins Carolus guilders As each copy contains 10 sheets and as 1,600 copies were printed, 32 reams 10 'mains' (including 1 ream for the 'imperfections') of 'papier grand carré' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers per ream, came to 51 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 73 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers |
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