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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