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Symbola heroica, [translated by Ioannes Gubernator], 1583

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Record ID cp013554
Voet reference number 1954
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Author Gabriel SYMEON (SIMEONI)
Title page transcription SYMBOLA ‖ HEROICA ‖ M. CLAVDII PARA- ‖ DINI, BELLIIOCEN- ‖ SIS CANONICI, ‖ ET D. GABRIELIS SYMEONIS, ‖ Multo, quàm antea, fideliùs de Gallica ‖ lingua in Latinam conuersa. ‖ ⊕ 35 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini: ‖ M.D.LXXXIII. ‖ CVM PRIVILEGIO.
Collation 16mo (110 × 72): A-V⁸; pages 1-319, [320] (Errors: 1⁰) Quire: E⁴ for F⁴; 2⁰) 42 for 24, 13 for 31)
Fingerprint 158316 - # b1 A2 ficis : # b2 V5 ate
Number of sheets 10
Pages [1]: Title [2]: Christianus Pierius Coloniensis de Magnatum, vulgique Symbolis, et Insignibus, ex Iohan. Ludovico Vive (italic type) [3]: Clariss…D. Carolo baroni Barlemontano et Hirgiano…Christoph. Plantinus S.P.D [4-7]: Nobilissimo…domino Theodoto a Marze, equiti, baroni et domino à Belleroche, Lassenaz etc. Claudius Paradinus signed by (italic type) 8-270: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type) 271: SYMBOLA SEV EMBLEMATA ‖ Gabrielis Symeonis Florentini. ‖ Huc cursus fuit. [emblem-woodcut with explanation] 272-316: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in roman type) 317: Hexastichon Ioannis Gubernatoris, quo priorem editionem conclusit… 317-319: In eosdem versus, epigramma (italic type) [320]: Blank
Edition information
Illustrations 216 woodcuts. The same as in the French and Latin editions of 1567, with the exception, however, of the illustration on page 203 which has been recut
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 720- A 213KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeUniversity Library of Erlangen-NürnbergHeidelberg University LibraryBritish Library LondonVatican Apolstolic LibraryAustrian National Library
Bibliographical references Ruelens-de Backer, pages 256-257 (1583, no. 18) Praz, M. Seventeenth-Century Imagery, page 445 J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1970, no. 470Claude Sorgeloos, ‘La bibliothèque du Cultura Fonds: acquisitions 1991–1999’ in Le livre & l’estampe, 46 (2000), nr. 316 Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, nr. 3935 Landwehr, J. Emblem & fable books (3rd ed.), nr. 605
Online bibliographical references STCV c:stcv:12923934
Note 1 Reprint of the 1567-Latin edition.
Note 2 Listed in M 296, folio 17v ([Symbola Heroica Paradini] an⁰ [15] 84, f[euilles] 9, [price:] stuivers 3½), and Ms. 321, sub 1584 (in 16⁰, f[euilles] 10).
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