Christophorus Plantinus

Title page. Inscriptions and textual elements: CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS. M.D.XXCIIX. LABORA ET CONSTANTIA. ÆT.LXXIIII. Inscriptions and textual elements: Ioannes Wierix fecit. Inscriptions and textual elements: Vincis dum pateris, Plantine, tuosque labores / Æternùm æternùm fama loquetur anus. / nec laudare opus. Invidiæ tu tunderis æs tu: / Illustres tantùm tundit at iste viros. Inscriptions and textual elements: PORTRET OF CHRISTOFFEL PLATNIJN / (Saint Avertin near Tours ca. 1520- Antwerp 1589) / Copper engraving from 1588 by Joannes Wierix (Antwerp 1549-1618) / Printed on the presses of the officina Plantiniana (De Gulden Passer, volume 66 - 67, 1988-1989) / by the Vereeniging der Antwerpsche Bibliophielen and the international colloquium / on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Christoffel Plantijn in the / Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp (one-time bibliophile edition). Inscriptions and textual elements: LABORE ET CONSTANTIA. Inscriptions and textual elements: ANTVERPIÆ, EX OFFICINA PLANTINIANA, MCMLXXXIX.