Archival research is certainly welcome! Please bear in mind that sources from the late 18th & early 19th century have not been digitised. If you are able to visit the reading room in person, I will show you where you might look. However, success is never guaranteed.

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures.

Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

Mark McConnell will give the 2025 Karmiole Endowed Lecture on “Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy” at 5:30 p.m. ET on 11 June in UVA’s Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.

Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

All you need to do is consult the wedding file, as most of the bills have been kept. The wedding party took place at Gaspar Offermans’ house, the bride’s brother-in-law. The food expenses run from here until image 541. Here is the meat bill.
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#earlymodern
#wedding

Impressed by this #earlymodern bill measuring 105 cm in length, which resembles an exceptionally lengthy supermarket receipt. Table linen merchant Hans van Velroeij supplied dozens of tablecloths and napkins for the wedding of Maria de Sweert and Jan Moretus II in July 1605.

#Skystorians
#Antwerp

If you can't make it to Antwerp this afternoon, I have also expounded the reinvention of Cavagnole in a blog post (only for Dutch readers) medium.com/@museumplant...

Ready for my lecture on Cavagnole, an 18th-century game of chance played by the higher circles. I reinvented the game based on the handwritten rules I found in the Plantin-Moretus Archives. To play the game, you just need a deck of cards, coins, and a washcloth.

#Erfgoeddag
#Skystorians

Wannabe author Joannes Paulus de Mont already designed a title page for his book on the temptations of the Devil and the flesh. Unfortunately, the Antwerp priest never found a printer to actually publish his book.
#booksky
#bookhistory
#skystorians
#earlymodern
#antwerp

Join us for the Summer School Books and Culture on The Religious Image @Ruusbroec Institute and @Museum Platin-Moretus in Antwerpen (30 June-5 July 2025). More information and apply: buff.ly/3QjN4EY
#uantwerpen #summerschool #bookhistory

I might be able to answer a few questions on Early Modern typography, but @joostdepuydt.bsky.social certainly can

Easy as ABC?

During his first years of printing, it seems that Christophe Plantin as a printer with French origin had no letters 'k' available for this particular roman typeface, leading him to combine the letters 'lz' in his printed regulation for his employees in the printing office.

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2. The second proofreader corrects the 1st proof and hears the 3rd proof.
3. The third proofreader reads the 1st proof and hears to the red proof; he reads and corrects the 2nd proof.

Archival source: MPM Arch. 193, f. 97v

How do you correct (liturgical) proofs when you have three proofreaders at your disposal?
1. The first or oldest proofreader reads the red proof and corrects the 2nd and 3rd proofs.
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#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#howto
#proofreading
#anno1808

Looking at tiny holes with rusty brown edges, indicating that Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin once nailed this work regulation to the wall of his workshop.

#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#plantinpress
#workregulations
#skystorians

Creative accounting: #Earlymodern accountants often started a new accounting book with a calligraphic title. Contemporary accountants no longer have the opportunity to indulge their calligraphic talents in digital accounting systems.

#Accounting
#Calligraphy
#Skystorian
#History
#Booksky

Very excited that my article on the privilege summaries printed by Balthasar Moretus I has just been published in @emlcjournal.bsky.social 😍📖 The article is available in open access at emlc-journal.org/article/view... (the DOI provided appears to be invalid)

#bookhistory
#earlymodern

Nice, but is there a one-word term in English like in Dutch to denote this profession rather than fore-edge closure maker?

I love the obsolete Dutch word ‘boeksluiter’, the contemporary term in the Plantin Archives to denote the craftsman who makes metal book clasps. Even women were employed in this trade like Willem vander Waeren’s widow. What would be the English equivalent for ‘boeksluiter’?
#bookhistory
#herbook

I have never seen Granjon's combinable ornaments so tiny as in this frame. I understand that sometimes you have to exhibit a facsimile instead of an original print, but why does the replica have to shrink so much?
#houseofeuropeanhistory
#bellumetartes
#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#typography

The first time Christophe Plantin used his trademark, he still included the letter ‘C’ of his first name. Later, Plantin and his successors from the Moretus family simplified the trademark to PLNT.
#bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

The first speaker of the Materiality session @zannavanloon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the collaboration between Christoph Plantin and the bookbinders in 16th-century Antwerp.
#bookhistory #bookbinding #Antwerp #books #Plantin #earlymodern

Very pleased to find facsimiles from the Plantin-Moretus Archives in the temporary exhibition "Text is not our type" at the National Library of Latvia

Presenting a paper on the training of Balthasar Moretus III on the shop floor of the #PlantinPress with a phenomenal view on Riga's old city on the background. I would like to thank the National Library of Latvia for this opportunity.

#bookhistory
#earlymodernhistory
#plantinmoretus