Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Zanna Van Loon
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Prof. Pedro Rueda received a Nottebohm scholarship to research the #EarlyModern trade in movable type between #Antwerp, Seville and Spanish America. He focused on the bookseller Tomás López de Haro, who had connections in Leiden, Antwerp and Seville. #bookhistory
Steven Van Impe
We have finally completed the digitization of this unique work, so as of now it is available online for all #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory people to enjoy!
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Very glad to welcome @pedrorueda.bsky.social in our reading room and to have him discuss his ongoing research as part of his Nottebohm fellowship!
Frisket Fragment Find Friday 🎉
Fragment of a frisket reused in a 17th-c. religious binding. Red printed text meant to be excluded remains visible, pointing to a liturgical context. The frisket itself is recycled from a liturgical manuscript. Also present: other fragments of printed binder’s waste.
Zanna Van Loon
Zanna Van Loon
THIS is your sign to come and do #bookhistory research in Antwerp in the outstanding collections of Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library.
Apply here for the Nottebohm Fellowship by Oct 1: sl1nk.com/i61nfmk 💙📚 📜
Come and join us... It’s pretty great here! 😉
Zanna Van Loon
#NotíciesFIMA @pedrorueda.bsky.social investiga a Anvers els circuits del llibre fima.ub.edu/noticies/202...
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El professor Pedro Rueda ha desenvolupat una estada de dues setmanes amb una Nottebohm fellowship a l’arxiu i biblioteca del Museu Plantin-Moretus i a la Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library d’Anvers. ...
Super interesting workshop in the Plantin-Moretus Museum by prof. Pedro Rueda Ramirez on the printer Tomás López de Haro, connecting Leyden, Antwerp, Seville and New Spain in the 17th century! #EarlyModern #BookHistory
This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp.
What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.
Steven Van Impe
Zanna Van Loon
Now with a working link: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/call-appl...
The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme.
Just the type of thing to find in our collections: a sheet with rows of characters probably printed as a working proof to assess wear & damage. This would explain why no frisket was used: the sheet was not a type specimen intended for presentation to potential clients.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 📚💙📜
Once carrying chant, now carrying contents: this liturgical #manuscript fragment is recycled as the cover of a small storage case. Just one of the many examples of the afterlives of medieval manuscripts!
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
