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skilled in all arts, Including ours, painting and sculpting)
has skilfully written, in two distiches, eulogies that will
please the readers no less by their variety and refinement,
than by the truth of their praise. For just as the portraits
themselves are varied, but all reliable, likewise the mean­
ing of the tetrastiches is elegantly distinct, while the truth
is remarkably well heeded. Although he himself refused,
we have placed the portrait of this man [Arias Montane]
at its appropriate place, engraved after a refined original
by the painter Pieter Pourbus.The works he has edited or
will edit, will show which rank he should have among
scholars. For this portrait he did not want us to use his
own work or his own text, but he could not deprive of
my rights. I was able to add a skilfully made portrait with­
out calling in his help, asking my friend and fellow citi­
zen Hadrianus Junius, a very learned man, to add a verse.
Farewell and approve of my zeal, as sincere men should
do.Antwerp, February 24,1572." (translated from the Latin
by jan Bloemendal)
The 44 portraits then follow, numbered from A3 to F6,
with all verses set In letterpress.
1572b
On the recto of the tide page an alphabetical table of con­
tents is printed in letterpress using a different, slightly larg­
er font:"NOMINUM HOC LI-/ BELLO DEPICTO-
RUM/ INDEX/ .„,."; underneath the same approbatio
is added, also in letterpress:''Nihil habet S. Romanae
Plebanus et Canonicus." (four lines instead of five). The
tide page (page Al) is followed by page A2, which has the
1572a~introduetion In letterpress on both sides, again
using a different type of letter and with some slight dif­
ferences in spelling: "PHILIPPUS GALLAEUS/ PIC-
TOR ET CHALCOGRAPHUS/ BON ARUM
ARTIUM AMATORIBUS, S./ ..... Antverpiae, vj. Kal.
Mart./ CIC[in reverse]. IC[in reverse]. LXXIL"Tne 44
portraits then follow, numbered from A3 to F6, with all
verses engraved in the margin underneath.
In nearly all the verses in the 1572b version
there are some minor differences in comparison with the
1572a-edItion. Sometimes grammatical errors have been
corrected, In other instances the engraver has made new
mistakes.There have been changes to the portraits as well:
the six men placed in an oval (Boccaccio, Dante,Dodoens,
Ficino, Petrarca and Poliziano) have inscriptions engraved
in the borders around the portrait; in the case of Clement
Marot a caption has been engraved above the portrait; the
Appendix 2 B
225
image of pope Pius II has been replaced by a second ver­
sion, engraved in reverse and on the engraving of
Theodoor Poelman his age and the date 1572 have been
added.
Lit.:
Cockx-Indestege 1968-94, vol. 1, p. 91, no. 1219; Van
Someren 1888-91, vol. I, pp. 123--124;Bataillon 1942, pp.
158-159; Hansel 1991, pp. 90-100; Sellink 1992a, pp. 23-
24
Copies:
Antwerp (Stedelijk Prentenkabinet, Museum Plantm-
Moretus, Antwerpen, 1572b-edition, bound with 1587-
edition), Antwerp (Bibliotheek, Museum Plantin-
Moretus, Antwerpen, 1572a-edition, bound with
Lamps on 1572), Berlin (Staatsblbllothek zu Berlin -
Pi^ussischerKulturbesitz,1572b-edItIon),B!oomirigtori
(Indiana University, Bloomington, Brussels (Komnkhjke
Bibliotheek Albert I, Brussel; Bibliothèque Royale Albert
Ier, Bruxelles, 1572b-edition),Brussels (Prentenkabinet,
Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, Brussel; Cabinet des
estampes, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles,
1572b-edition, bound with 1595-edition), Budapest
(Bibliotheca Nationalis Hungariae Széchényiana,
Budapest, Cambridge (Printroom, Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, Cambridge (USA) (Harvard University,
Cambridge (USA), Columbia (University of Missouri,
Columbia, Edinburgh (National Library of Scodand,
Edinburgh, Florence (Biblioteca Nazionale, Firenze,
bound with 1587-edition, Ghent (Universiteitsbiblio­
theek, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Leiden (Universiteitsbib­
liotheek, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, London (The British
Library, London, Madrid (Gabinete de estampas y bellas
artes, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 1572b-edition,
incomplete, bound with individual portraits from several
other editions), Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, two
copies: 1572a-edition,bound with 1587-edition and three
portraits of 1567-edition; 1572-edition, Paris (Cabinet
des estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1572a-edi-
tion, bound with 1604- and 1606-editions), Escorial
(Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo de el Escorial,
Escorial, 1572a~edition), Stockholm (Kongelige Biblio-
teket,Stockholm, 1572b-edition),The Hague (Konink­
lijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, 1572b-edition, bound with
twelve portraits from 1567-edition), Toronto (Toronto
Public Library, Metropolitan Bibliographic Center,
Toronto, Washington (Library of Congress, Washington,
rwo copies: one bound with 1587-edition and 10 por-