After Edward Moretus sold the old printing establishment to the city of Antwerp, it became the best museum in the world: the Plantin-Moretus Museum. #OTD, 150 years ago, it was opened as museum!
Congratulations with your 150th anniversary! 🥳🎈🎊 📚
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#plantin
#MPM
How the museum looked in the 19th century.
Old Paper Collector
Old Paper Collector
I visited this antique bookshop today. You literally had to climb over piles of books to reach more books! 😄 I wonder how much longer places like this will exist?
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A fascinating look at early modern typography showing how different printers tackled the exact same year (1602). The use of this ligature (∞ = 1000) was new for me.
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#Pentecost from a Missale Romanum (small folio - 1574 - Plantin). The woodcuts are designed by Pieter van de Borcht (PB) and executed by Antony van Leest (AVL).
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Antiphonarium Romanum (Aertssens, Antwerp 1633) used for personal devotion by Catholic women, probably in Amsterdam. Bartha de Wit and Anna Wansbeeck.
#lithurgy
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#herbook
I just identified probably the oldest printed fragment in my collection! It's a rubricated leaf from Johann Mentelin’s 1474 Concordantiae bibliorum, surviving in situ as binder's waste inside a 1585 Protestant anti-Jesuit tract from La Rochelle. 📚🔍
#BookHistory
#incunable
Old Paper Collector
Old Paper Collector
Old Paper Collector
Old Paper Collector
Old Paper Collector
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
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 💙📚📜
