| Record ID | cp013510 |
| Voet reference number | 884 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Petrus CANISIUS |
| Title page transcription | INSTITVTIONES ‖ CHRISTIANÆ, ‖ seu ‖ PARVVS CATECHISMVS ‖ CATHOLICORVM, ‖ Præcipua Christianæ pietatis capita complectens: ‖ PRIMVM quidem à P. IOANNE BAPTISTA RO- ‖ mano, Societatis Iesu, in rudiorum & idiotarum gratiam, ‖ iuxta SS. Concilij Tridentini decretum sess. 25. imaginibus ‖ distinctus, nunc veró æreis formis ad D. PETRI CANI- ‖ SII, Societatis Iesu, Institutiones eleganter expressus. ‖ ⊕ 36 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, Architypo- ‖ graphus Regius, sibi & Philippo Gallæo. ‖ M.D.LXXXIX. |
| Collation | 8⁰ (142 × 89): A-N⁸, O⁴; pages 1-212, [213-216] (Errors: 53 for 63) |
| Fingerprint | 158908 - # b1 A2 Val : # b2 O2 rum$ |
| Number of sheets | 13.50 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3]: Catholico lectori 4-210: Text (uneven pages: illustrations with short typographical caption; even pages: blank with the exception of pages 6, 34, 50, 70, 72, 86, 100, 112, 120, 126, 140, 154, 168, 182, 198, 200, which received a typographically printed text) 211: approbation (Antwerp, 25 February 1589, signed by D. Henricus Zebertus Dungaeus) 212: Privilege (Brussels, 7 April 1589, s. I. de Witte) [213]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT SIBI ET ‖ PHILIPPO GALLÆO CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS, ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS ‖ REGIVS, ANNO M.D.LXXXIX [214-216]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | 103 engravings, 80 × 70, designed and executed by Pieter van der Borcht (illustration on page 207 signed underneath: P. vander borcht inuenit et fecit), representing scenes from the life of Christ, virtues and vices, the commandments, the sacraments, etc. (each representation within an etched border of some 4 mm.). The larger part is numbered, but this numeration is not continuous and often irregular (page 5: not numbered; pages 7-33: nos. 1-14; pages 35-47: not numbered; pages 49-69: nos. 6-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10; page 71: not numbered; pages 73-85: nos. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7; pages 87-99: nos. 1-7; page 101: not numbered; pages 103-115: nos. 2-3-5-5-6-6-2; pages 117-119: not numbered; pages 121-125: nos. 1-3; pages 127-139: nos. 1-7; pages 141-153: nos. 1-7; pages 155-167: nos. 1-7; pages 169-181: nos. 1-7; pages 183-209: nos. 1-2-3-4-5-[not numbered]-7-8-4-1-2-3-4-[not numbered]) |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1480- 8-131Ruusbroec Institute LibraryKBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeBritish Library LondonUniversity Library NijmegenVatican Apolstolic Library |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, pages 316-317 (1589, no. 1) Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.], II, columns 637 and 657-658 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa, no. 4053.[[cs]], nr. 91 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 3981 Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa 4053 Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.] II, 637, 656-657. |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12913513 |
| Note 1 | Contains 103 illustrations, each with a heading and a short explanatory text underneath (in italic type). The text on the verso-sides of some of the pages summarizes the meaning of the section of illustrations immediately following. |
| Note 2 | The edition is listed among the publications of Petrus Canisius. In fact, as is explained in the title and stressed in the foreword, it is a pictorial album intended to accompany and to visualize Canisiu's's Parvus Catechismus. Canisius himself seems to have had nothing to do with it. The model followed was a work of Joannes Baptista Romanus (or Elian), illustrated with rather rude woodcuts: Dottrina Christiana nella quale si contengono li principali misteri della nostra fede rappresentati con figure per instrutione de gl' Idioti, et di quelli che non sonno legere. Conforme à quello che ordino il Sacro Concilio Tridentino nella sessione XXV. Composta dal P. Gio. Battista Romano della Compagnia di Iesu. In Roma, nella stamperia di Vincentio Accolti, 1587 (cf. De Backer-Sommervogel, III, Column 379). |
| Note 3 | Co-publication of Plantin and Philip Galle. The financial arrangements between the two publishers, dated May 1589, are detailed in Arch. 20, folio 356. The intention was to print 850 copies, of which 425 copies were for Plantin, the other 425 for Galle. On Galle's credit are entered: the delivery of 24 reams of paper 'marqué P', which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 18 stuivers per ream, came to 45 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers; 'pour avoir raccoustré les figures avec le burin' (i.e. for having worked over with the burin the lines of Van der Borcht's engravings) 15 florins Carolus guilders; for printing 11,000 sheets [of the copper-plates] 'desquelles nous faisons compte que reviendront les 850 exemplaires', at 2 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers per hundred sheets: 275 florins Carolus guilders In all 335 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers On Plantin's credit are entered: the making of the plates, which, at 2 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers per piece, came to 252 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers; supplementary expenses for cleaning the plates: 13 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers; printing the typographical texts on the 24 reams of paper, at 2 florins Carolus guilders per ream: 48 florins Carolus guilders In all 314 florins Carolus guilders, which meant that Plantin had to pay 21 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers to Galle to make an even count. |
| Note 4 | On 15 June 1589 Jan Moretus mailed a copy of the 'Cathechismo figurado' to de Cayas (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1471). |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 321 (1589, f[euilles] 13½, fig[urae] aeneae no. 103, [price:] stuivers 30). |
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