Embedded Files
In this section I list some links that I use a lot as a book collector. Of course it is leaning into collecting books from the Low Countries
Almost every early modern book has been scanned into PDF. A very useful resource to check information about a specific book or a fragment of a printed book.
Example
Example
In 2023 I bought a collection of 350 woodcuts, cut from 15th/16th books. Often the text on the reverse side was still readable:
"Zeugen auff meine seele" "das ich nicht widder".
I added both phrases with quotes into Google Books and I got a list with possible matches.
This was the final match: https://www.google.nl/books/edition/Die_Propheten_alle_Deudsch/NrFeAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Page 124/125.
https://marques.crai.ub.edu/en/printers/devices
Books printed in what is now Flanders
A Bibliography of the Works Printed and Published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden (1555–1589)
Editors: Kristof Selleslach and Zanna Van Loon
The Plantin Press Online aims to provide in-depth bibliographical descriptions of all editions printed and published by Christopher Plantin (c. 1520–1589) in Antwerp and by his officina in Leiden until his death on 1 July 1589. It includes references to his typographical material, his correspondence, and the Plantin archive in Antwerp, as well as links to digital reproductions. Based on the printed edition compiled by Léon Voet in collaboration with Jenny Voet-Grisolle (Amsterdam, 1980–1983), this open-access research tool incorporates the latest bibliographical findings as well as corrections to the print edition. The dataset is continuously updated and complemented by specialists at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. We are embedding citizen science, which means we invite users to provide any additional information that would improve this bibliography.
This digital resource is published in collaboration with Museum Plantin-Moretus.
The valuable collections held by the Plantin-Moretus Museum are enormously varied. They relate to the business management and family life of Christopher Plantin and his successors, the Moretuses. Next to the typographical collections, which originate from printing activities (such as punches, matrices, dies, type cases, woodblocks, copperplates, etc.), you will also find descriptions of furniture and paintings.
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