| Record ID | cp013390 |
| Voet reference number | 1091 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Petrus DIVAEUS (VAN DIEVE) |
| Title page transcription | PETRI DIVAEI ‖ LOVANIENSIS, ‖ DE GALLIAE BELGICAE ‖ ANTIQVITATIBVS LIB. I. ‖ STATVM EIVS QVEM SVB ‖ ROMANORVM IMPERIO ‖ HABVIT COMPLECTENS. ‖ ⊕ 17 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex offlcina Christophori Plantini. ‖ M.D.LXVI. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [128]: A-D⁸, E⁴; pages 1-62, [63-72] |
| Fingerprint | 156608 - # b1 A2 ea : # b2 E3 26.$ |
| Number of sheets | 5 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (granted to P. Divaeus: Brussels, Privy Council, 8 August 1565, signed by Mesdach; Council of Brabant, 5 October 1565, s. De Witte) 3-5: Nobiliss. ac optimae spei principi Carolo Philippo Croviacensi, domino ab Haurich, Petrus Divaeus Lovaniensis, S.P. (Louvain, 18 April 1565; italic type) 6: Lud. Carrion Brugensis ad Petrum Divaeum suum (italic type) 7-62: Text (words in greek type and gothic type, marginals in italic type and gothic type) [63-70]: Index (italic type) [71-72]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcut-map executed by Arnold Nicolai after the design of an unknown draughtsman (see Note, no. 3), 153 × 179, on a loose sheet, with the title, printed typographically, 'Nova Galliae Belgicae, seu inferioris Germaniae, qualis sub Romanorum imperio fuit, descriptio', and underneath - also printed typographically - an enumeration of the tribes ('populi') living in the Low Countries at the time of the Roman Empire (on three columns; parts in gothic type). The loose sheet has the quire-indication B, meaning that it had to be bound between pages 16-17 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 623- A 153University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamHeritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library LondonPostel AbbeyKU Leuven- Special Collections, RA19389;R3A11393UNamur- R4Z.0072 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 62 (1566, no. 30).Adams D-696 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 942 Machiels, J. Cat. Rijksuniv. Gent, D-254 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12916371USTC 401244 |
| Note 1 | Editio princeps of this study on the Low Countries and its population at the time of the Roman Empire. |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory to Philip de Croy Divaeus affirms to have divided his work on the early history of the Netherlands into two books: a first about the Roman period, which he now publishes; a second, which he has the intention to write soon, devoted to the Frankish invasions and the subsequent history of the country. This second book does not seem to have materialized. |
| Note 3 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 102, gives the following details about the 'Antiquitates Belgicae Divei': on 1 December 1565 is entered 'p[our] privilege et la carte ansemble' 10 florins Carolus guilders (This expense is more detailed in Arch. 3, folio 39, in an entry under the same date of 1 December 1565, titled 'Antiquitates Galliae Belgicae': 'J'ay payé à Monsr. Divaeus pour le privilège de son livre de Antiq. Galliae Belgicae etc. 3 florins Carolus guilders; Item pour la pourtraicture de la carte et bois 3 fl 10 stuivers; Pour la taille de lad[icte] carte à Arnold Nicolai 4 florins Carolus guilders 10 10 stuivers [Total:] 10 florins Carolus guilders [= error for 11 florins Carolus guilders]'). The wages for composing and printing quires A-D are entered on 9 February and 2 March 1566, for printing quire E and the map on 17 March 1566. They amount to 7 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers Of the edition 550 copies were printed. In all, with the map and the 'imperfections', 6 reams of paper 'petit bastard' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, came to 8 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 26 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers (= a new error made by Plantin in adding the expenses: 17 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers + 8 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers amount to 25 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers, not florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers The total costs, when straightening out the two errors made by Plantin, were in fact 26 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers). Plantin concluded 'qui est la pièce 1 [stuivers]. Nous le vendons -'. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 4v (De Antiquitat. galliae Belgicȩ P. Divei in 8⁰, f[euilles] 5, [price:] stuivers 1¼; further on the same page: Diveus P. de Antiquitat. galliae Belgicae, 8⁰, a⁰ 1566, [price:] stuivers 1½), and M 164, folio 8v (De Antiquit. Gallie belgicȩ P. Divei, 8⁰, ffeuilles] 5, [price:] stuivers 1¼). |
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