Today I received a questionnaire from Pablo Nicolas Dufour, a member of the team of scholars at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and I would like to share it here. The team is researching a census of the first nine editions of Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis (1625-1650) and hoping to publish the results in 2025, the 400th anniversary of the book’s first appearance. The project team of the Grotius Census Bibliography calls itself on Twitter Where is Grotius? (@whereisgrotius).
By now, the team has examined and located hundreds of copies to date, but the team memners would like to locate more copies, in particular copies hold privately. Here below are the links to the online questionnaires and to online versions of the reports on these editions published so far.
Questionnaire 1625 IBP:
https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/681736?lang=en
Questionnaire 1626 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/889362?lang=en
Questionnaire 1631 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/575734?lang=en
Questionnaire 1632 Janssonius IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/353911?lang=de
Questionnaire 1632 Blaeu IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/115821?lang=de
Questionnaire 1642 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/955414?lang=en
Questionnaire 1646 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/124888?lang=de
Questionnaire 1647 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/776362?lang=de
Questionnaire 1650 IBP: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/318594?lang=de
We have published multiple research notes on the editions, also listing the copies we have found so far:
– 1625: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/1/article-p208_010.xml?rskey=4XDhcA&result=57
– 1626: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/1/article-p236_011.xml?rskey=4XDhcA&result=58
– 1631: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/1/article-p246_012.xml?rskey=4XDhcA&result=59
– 1632 Janssonius: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/2/article-p395_002.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=32
– 1632 Blaeu: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/2/article-p412_003.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=31
– 1642: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/43/2/article-p437_004.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=33
– 1646: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p154_008.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=11
– 1647: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p181_009.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=15
– 1650: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p197_010.xml?rskey=EezetD&result=4
Should you have any questions about the project or the questionnaire, please do not hesitate to contact Pablo Nicolas Dufour at whereisgrotius@gmail.com.
The URL’s of the reports bring you to articles in issues of the journal Grotiana. Hopefully the team at Heidelberg can indeed with your help find unknown copies of early editions of Grotius’ famous work!
Since October 2023 the Heisenberg Project Grotius Census Bibliography is also present online with its own blog.
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