| Record ID | cp013450 |
| Voet reference number | 48 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:12906162 |
| Author | Guilielmus ALTARIUS (DES AUTELZ) |
| Title page transcription | LA PAIX VE- ‖ NVE DV CIEL, ‖ DEDIE'E A MONSEIGNEVR ‖ L'EVESQVE D'ARRAS. ‖ AVEC, ‖ LE TOMBEAV DE L'EMPEREVR ‖ Charles V. Cesar, tousiours Auguste: ‖ Dedié & presenté à la Majesté du ROY son fils. ‖ PAR ‖ Guillaume Desautels, Gentilhomme Charroloys. ‖ ⊕ 6 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin: ‖ M.D.LIX. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [139]: A-G⁴; pages [1-56] |
| Fingerprint | 155904 - # b1 A2 alo : # b2 F4 EP |
| Number of sheets | 6 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 13 July 1559, signed by Ph. de Lens) [3-4]: A Monseigneur Monsieur l'Evesque d'Arras (italic type) [5-7]: French poem by Charles de Rouillon in honour of the author [8]: Answer by Des Autelz [9-47]: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) [48-51]: French poem by Charles de Rouillon to the author [52-55]: Answer by Des Autelz [56]: V. of typographical fleurons |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | British Library London - 1073 i 6Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 21 (1559, no. 5) Young, M.L.M. Guillaume Des Autelz. A study of his life and works, page 186Voet, L. Plantin Press (1555-1589) 48 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12918621USTC 14884 |
| Note 1 | Contains two French poems: La paix venue du ciel (an eulogy of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, April 1559, in which peace was made between the Kings of Spain and France) (pages [9-38]) and Le tombeau de l'empereur Charles V…(pages [39-47]). To quote Young, pages 146-147: 'La paix venue du ciel is the longest and most ambitious of Des Autelz' extant poems; its 530 alexandrines in rimes plates maintain a happy balance between fable and fact…Des Autelz comes forward as the national poet of Burgundy to sing the peace negociated by Bishop Granvelle…' and page 153 'The last of Des Autelz' political poems is less attractive. Le Tombeau de l'Empereur…consists of 12 sonnets; the line is the alexandrine…The subject is the history of the Emperor told in the most glowing terms'. Full analysis of both poems in Young, pages 145-157. |
| Note 2 | La paix venue du ciel must have been written between the beginning of April 1559 (Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis) and the end of June 1559. Le tombeau could have been written earlier at the death of Charles V (December 1558), but was more likely composed at the same time as La paix venue du ciel. It may, consequently, be accepted that Plantin's publication is the editio princeps - and in fact the only one printed of Des Autelz's two poems, notwithstanding the contention of Brunet. To quote Young, page 186 (cf. also page 145, n. 37): 'Brunet says that a previous edition, undated, had appeared in 1558 or 1559; I can find no trace of this and none of La Paix could have appeared before April 1559. Tchemerzine mentions a separate edition of Le Tombeau for 1558 (4to ?) which is possible' (but not very likely as Young, on page 145, discussing the possible date of the composition of Le Tombeau, makes quite clear). |
| Note 3 | In her comment on this publication, Young discusses also the poems by and to Charles de Rouillon, and the friendship between this young French poet - at that time about 20 years - and the somewhat older Des Autelz. The two must have met each other in 1559 in the Netherlands, very likely at Antwerp. |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 11 recto (La Paix venue du ciel p[ar] G. des aultels, 4⁰, a⁰ 1559, f[euilles] 7, [price:] stuivers 1). |
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