| Record ID | cp013382 |
| Voet reference number | 2123 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | RANTZAU) RANTZOVIUS (RANZOVIUS |
| Title page transcription | CATALOGVS ‖ IMPERATORVM, ‖ REGVM AC PRINCI- ‖ PVM QVI ASTROLOGICAM ‖ artem amarunt, ornarunt & exer- ‖ cuerunt: quibus additæ sunt ‖ Astrologicæ quædam prædictiones veræ ac mirabiles omnium ‖ temporum, desumptæ ex Iosepho, Suetonio, Tacito, Dione, Xi- ‖ philino, Cuspiniano, & aliis, ex quibus certitudo ac veritas ‖ harum disciplinarum colligi potest. ‖ ADIECTVS est præterea tractatus de annis Clima- ‖ ctericis, vnà cum variis exemplis illustrium viro- ‖ rum qui annis ijsdem & præsertim anno 49, 56. & ‖ 63. periere: versus insuper nonnulli de Planetis ac ‖ signis, mensiumq̓ue laboribus; quæ omnia tam le- ‖ ctu iucunda, quàm scitu necessaria videntur: ‖ Collecta ab HENRICO RANTZOVIO, ac edita ‖ à Theophile Siluio, anno M.D.LXXX. ‖ ⊕ 37 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [127]: A-G⁸; pages 1-109, [110-112] |
| Fingerprint | 158008 - # b1 A2 s,$te : # b2 G5 scit |
| Number of sheets | 7 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3: Quotation from Origenes (parts in italic type) 4: Quotation from Theodoretus, episcopus Cyri 5-18: Lectori signed by (Bredenberg, 1 February 1580; parts in italic type and greek type) 19-107: Text (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) 107-108: Ad lectorem Theophilus Sylvius 108-109: Poems on H. Rantzovius and his family (italic type) 109: approbation (s. Waltherus vander Steeghen, Antwerp) [110-112]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut, on page 96: circle (diam. 72) with astronomical figures and annotations (within a typographically printed text) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 418Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 217 (1580, no. 14)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4101 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12925777USTC 401852 |
| Note 1 | Astrological treatise, with the enumeration of prominent men who practised astrology (pages 19-55); a chapter 'De annis climacteribus: Id est, scansililibus, qui ex numeris, velut per gradus scalarum ascendunt et colliguntur' (pages 56-66); followed by examples of people who died in well-defined periods ('Sequentes perierunt annis hebdomaticis sive climactericis': pages 66-94; followed on page 95 by a table, and on pages 96-98 by some astrological explanations); finally a series of poems: 'versus de planetis' (= poems on the planets) and 'mensium labores' (= poems on the different months) (pages 99-107). |
| Note 2 | On the title-page is stated that the treatise was written by H. Rantzovius and edited by Theophilus Sylvius. As can be deduced from the note to the reader, on pages 107-108, Sylvius was in fact also largely responsible for the historical research-work and the verification of the dates. |
| Note 3 | It may be assumed that Plantin had been approached either by Rantzovius or Sylvius to publish the work. Cf. the remarks in no. 2125. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 3r (Catalogus Imperatorum etc. qui Astrol. amarunt Hen. Rantzovii, 8⁰, f[euilles] 7, [price:] stuivers 2) and folio 16v (Rantzovii Catalogus Imperat. qui de Astrol., 1580, f[euilles] 7, [price:] stuivers 2½), M 164, folio 6v ([price:] stuivers 3), and M 321 ([price:] stuivers 2). |
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