| Record ID | cp013393 |
| Voet reference number | 577 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | ARIAS MONTANUS (MONTANO) Benedictus |
| Title page transcription | BENEDICTI ‖ ARIÆ MONTANI ‖ HISPALENSIS ‖ COMMENTARIA ‖ IN DVODECIM ‖ PROPHETAS. ‖ ⊕ 22 ‖ ANTVVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Regii prototypographi. ‖ M.D.LXXI. ‖ Cum Priuilegio Regiæ cath. Maiestatis. ‖ Æstimat. LXXII. stuf. |
| Collation | Folio [257]: *⁴, A-R⁶, S⁸, T-Z⁶, a-z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, AA-MM⁶, NN⁴, OO⁶; pages [1-8], 1-983, [984-996] (Errors: 294 for 264, 267 for 275, 291 for 281, 348 for 350, 381 for 380, 447 for 427, 475 for 474, 235 for 532, 384 for 584, 751 for 750, 909 for 907, 910 for 908) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, Privy Council, 30 January 1569, and Council of Brabant, 15 February 1569, signed by De Langhe); approbation (Antwerp, s. Sebastianus Baer Delphius) [3-8]: Ad sanctissimam matrem ecclesiam catholicam, illiusque pontificem summum, atque legitimos ministros omnes, Benedicti Ariae Montani Hispalensis epistola dedicatoria (Antwerp, 18 October 1570; italic type) 1-983: Text (parts in italic type; marginals in roman type; words in Hebrew) [984]: Blank [985]: Christophorus Plantinus christiano lectori S [986-994]: Index (on three columns, in italic type) [995]: ANTVVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS REGIVS ‖ PROTOTYPOGRAPHVS, ANNO ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXX. MENSE DECEMB [996]: Blank |
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| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - Arch. 1228, folio 45: only title-pageKBR Royal Library of Belgium - V 444British Library London - 3676, f. 1.: pages 985-996 missingStaatsbibliothek zu BerlinRoyal Library of San Lorenzo de El EscorialTown Hall Library, LeicesterMunicipal Library LyonsBiblioteca Nacional de EspañaBayerische StaatsbibliothekBodleian LibrariesPostel AbbeyBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di RomaUniversity Library Santiago de CompostelaVatican Apolstolic LibraryAustrian National Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 107-108 (1571, no. 7) Morales, no. 18 Palau y Dulcet, 1, page 474, no. 16469 |
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| Note 1 | Explanation of the 12 minor Prophets: each sentence or part of a sentence (printed in italic type) of the Bible-text is followed by a large comment (in roman type). Each chapter on a prophet is preceded by a praefatio and followed by a carmen ex voto. The carmen ex voto of the first prophet - Hossea - is preceded by a note by Plantin (Christophorus Plantinus pio lectori) (page 218). |
| Note 2 | The author wrote his comments at various times. At the end of some of the chapters place and date are noted at which they were finished: Navis in agro Abulensi apud Divi Laurentii sacellum, August 1567 (Hossea); Madrid, 19 June 1567 (Abdia); Madrid, January 1568 (Sophonia); Madrid, October 1567 (Haggaeus); Antwerp, September 1568 (Zacharias); Antwerp, 3 January 1569 (Malachia). |
| Note 3 | The colophon states that the work was finished in December 1570. It was in fact somewhat earlier on the market as Plantin could already on 19 October 1570 ship 6 copies - two of them on 'grand papier' - to Cardinal Granvelle (Correspondance de C. Plantin, II, no. 301). |
| Note 4 | Arias Montanus took 400 copies of his work and paid them, at 28½ stuivers a piece, 570 florins Carolus guilders (entered in the ledger on 8 January 1571: Arch. 16, opening 108 left). |
| Note 5 | Some of Arias's works came under attack in Spain. Plantin, at the end of June 1572 (between 27 June and 8 July), could write to his friend - then in Italy - that he had received a message from Mathias Gast, bookseller at Salamanca, telling that the Commentaria were cleared and the sale permitted (Correspondance de C. Plantin, III, no. 395: 'A Dno Matthia Gast Bibliopola Salmanticensi litteras accepi quibus significat opus tuum in prophetas minores diligenter rursus et severe satis fuisse illic examinatum atque tandem Bibliopolis redditum cum libera potestate illud distrahendi'). |
| Note 6 | Listed in M 296, folio 11 verso (Comm. in XII proph[etas] minores a⁰ -, f[euilles] 251, [price:] stuivers 70). |
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