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The Works of Erycius Puteanus Published by the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp

2000; Leuven University Press; Issue: 49 Linguagem: Inglês

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Dirk Imhof,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

In this contribution I would like to examine in detail those works by Erycius Puteanus that were published by the Officina Plantiniana. Because so many of the records of the Plantin Press are still preserved, I will be able to discuss the printing process, the Illustration, and the sale of Puteanus's works. I will complement this with Information from the correspondence between Puteanus and the managers of the Plantin Press that is similarly preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Although let ters were exchanged for many years, this correspondence is regrettably not very extensive. In particular, few of the letters Puteanus wrote to Balthasar Moretus I are preserved: just eight letters from the period 1615 to 1618. Copies of letters written to Puteanus are more numerous, namely, twenty-two that date from 1601 to 1643. Despite the uneven ness in the preserved Information, an examination of the production and sale of Puteanus's works by the Plantin Press nevertheless reveals some lesser known aspects of Puteanus and the reception of his books. It would be difficult to claim that the Plantin Press played an impor tant role in the publication of Erycius Puteanus's works. Aside from the two editions of the Lipsiomnema anniversarium sive Iusti Lipsii V. C. laudatio funebris, which were published under Jan Moretus I in 1607 and, following his death, in 1613 under Balthasar I and Jan Moretus II, Puteanus had just three other texts published by the Plantin Press. The subject of each of these three works is the adoration of the Virgin. Specifically, the Pietatis thaumata in Bernardi Bauhusii e Societate lesu proteum parthenium appeared in 1617, followed one year later by De annunciatione Virginis Matris oratio, and finally, the Diva virgo Belli fontana in Sequanis: loci ac pietatis descriptio, which was printed in 1631.