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PLANTIN, CHRISTOPHE (1608)
20.2 x 13.3 cm.
Above portrait, at top centre: "CHRISTOPHORUS
PLANTINUS Archetypographus Regius,/ vixit annos
LXXV. obijtque Antverpiae CIC[in reverse]. IC[in
reverse]. LXXXIX." (two lines).
In lower margin: f
Tl an tinum tibi, spectator, proponimus,
ut cum./ Nomine perpetuo vivat et effigies./ Sic ubi pos-
teritas miracula tanta librorum/ Eius et innumerum sera
videbit opus;/ Tune es Chrlstophorus, tune iile es? dicat:
in unum/ Et sua conijeiens lumina fixa virum;/ Musarum
o pater, exclamet, dlgnissime salve:/ Reddita sunt studio
saccula docta tuo." (eight lines)
In margin right:"!. BOCHIUS."
I.
With address of Goltzius, before ail other inscriptions.
Amstexdam (Rijksprcntenkabinet.Rijksmuseum, Amster­
dam)
n.
With Latin verses in lower margin; added in margin right:
"A.l. Bochio "
in.
With inscription above portrait;slight changes in the hair.
IV.
As described. Used in 1608-edition.
Used in:
Illustrium Galliae ..... (1608), no. 51c
Lit,:
Hollstein, vol. , p , no. 207;TIB. 3, p no. 181, Strauss
1977, vol I, pp. 298-299, no. 175
Engraved by Hendrick Goltzius, verses by Johannes
Boghe.Thc engraving was made, probably as a commis­
sion by Plantin himself, during the publishers stay in
Leiden in the years 1582-85. As usual the sitter received
the plate and toke it with him to Antwerp, where Plantin
or his heirs could reprint the portrait when necessary.The
third state - with the addition of the year of death - was
published In memory' of Plantm by his family shordy alter
Appendix 2E
282
1589, The described fourth state was included by
Theodoor Gallc in die 1608-edition of the portrait series,
where it was added, without a number, following portrait
no. 51b (Lips).
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POELMAN, THEODOOR (1572)
17.7 x 12.1 cm.
In lower margin, in letterpress: "THEODORUS PUL-
MANNUS,/ CRANEBURGIUS./ Dum veterum cer­
tain esse studes Pulmarme librorum/ Et morum puram
dum cupis esse ndein:/ Iste tibi candor nornen laudemque
paravit,/ Fortuna at memo est non satis aequa tuo." (six
lines)
In margin right, also in letterpress: "D3".
I.
As described. Used in 1572a-edition.
n.
Added at left side: "AEtatis/ suae 65." (two lines); added
in lower right corner: "PEL Gal-/ laeus/ 1572" (three
lines). Verses in letterpress in lower margin replaced by
engraved, slightly different inscription: "THEODORUS
PULMANUS [instead of PULMANNUS] CRANE­
BURGIUS [on one line]/ " (five Hnes); added in mar­
gin right, also engraved: "D3". Used in 1572b-edition.
Used In:
Virorum (1572), no. D3
Lit.:
TIB. 56, p. 483, no. 184
Theodoor Poelman (Theodorus Pulmannus),
Kranenburg 1512 - Antwerp 1581; German humanist,
friend of Christophe Plannn, editor of several texts by
classical authors published by Plantin (cp.Voet 1980-83,
no. 2116). Engraved by Philips Gaile, verses by Benito
Arias Montane.