File:Lucanus, De bello civili ed. Pulmann (Plantin 1592), title page.jpg

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Title page of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan" class="extiw" title="w:Lucan">Lucan’s</a> De bello civili (alias Pharsalia), edited by Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann), printed by the Officina Plantiniana (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Plantin" class="extiw" title="w:Christophe Plantin">Plantin</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Moretus" class="extiw" title="w:Jan Moretus">Johannes/Jan Moretus</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp" class="extiw" title="en:Antwerp">Antwerp</a> in 1592. On the title page you see the Plantin <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Druckermarke" title="Category:Druckermarke">printer’s emblema</a>. On the title page and on the endpaper at the left side different old and new owner notes. — Lucan’s poem was always especially popular in times of civil wars or other kinds of general conflicts. This little edition is a good example, because it was prepared and published during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" class="extiw" title="w:French Wars of Religion">French Wars of Religion</a> (1562–98), as Theodor Pulmann mentions in his preface. He explains the special actuality of Lucan by this fact.

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current20:12, 5 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:12, 5 January 20173,287 × 2,421 (2.59 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Title page of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan" class="extiw" title="w:Lucan">Lucan’s</a> <i>De bello civili</i> (alias <i>Pharsalia</i>), edited by Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann), printed by the Officina Plantiniana (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Plantin" class="extiw" title="w:Christophe Plantin">Plantin</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Moretus" class="extiw" title="w:Jan Moretus">Johannes/Jan Moretus</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp" class="extiw" title="en:Antwerp">Antwerp</a> in 1592. On the title page you see the Plantin <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Druckermarke" title="Category:Druckermarke">printer’s emblema</a>. On the title page and on the endpaper at the left side different old and new owner notes. — Lucan’s poem was always especially popular in times of civil wars or other kinds of general conflicts. This little edition is a good example, because it was prepared and published during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" class="extiw" title="w:French Wars of Religion">French Wars of Religion</a> (1562–98), as Theodor Pulmann mentions in his preface. He explains the special actuality of Lucan by this fact.
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