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I <3 <3 <3 books. A student owning this Tragoedia (1517) edited by Erasmus not only diligently took notes in his copy, he also drew...

I <3 <3 <3 books.

A student owning this Tragoedia (1517) edited by Erasmus not only diligently took notes in his copy, he also drew a bunch of hearts on a flyleaf!

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 14.13 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:6610768/E)

Book guts of an #earlymodern book on surgery and monstersCopy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: 2 200...

Book guts of an #earlymodern book on surgery and monsters

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: 2 200 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:15339306/E)

Practice makes perfect!#Manuscript notebook of Antwerp printer Balthasar I Moretus to practice calligraphy from when he was a student.Museum...

Practice makes perfect!

#Manuscript notebook of Antwerp printer Balthasar I Moretus to practice calligraphy from when he was a student.

Museum Plantin-Moretus: M 222 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:14796560/E)

Discovery of the week! An early 19th-century breviary printed in the Officina Plantiniana with the handwritten notes added by the typesetter...

Discovery of the week!

An early 19th-century breviary printed in the Officina Plantiniana with the handwritten notes added by the typesetter named Mortelmans to prepare a new edition 🤩

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: W 142 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:7012999/E)

I wouldn’t call it our very own #voynich but it is quite mysterious: meet M 26, a seventeenth-century manuscript in 2 volumes filled with...

I wouldn’t call it our very own #voynich but it is quite mysterious: meet M 26, a seventeenth-century manuscript in 2 volumes filled with (non-)sensical excerpts of texts and strange drawings, made by a member of the Moretus family.

Anyone up for a challenge?

Museum Plantin-Moretus: M 26 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:14128610/E)

Intrigued by☟this remarkably large printed woodcut manicule☟in a incunable copy published by the Antwerp-based printer Govaert Bac in...

Intrigued by☟this remarkably large printed woodcut manicule☟in a incunable copy published by the Antwerp-based printer Govaert Bac in the 1490s!

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 18.38 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:3165482/E)

#bookhistory #bookhistodons

Great example of #EarlyModern almanacs as everyday objects. Christophe Plantin annotated the verso side of this almanac he had printed for...

Great example of #EarlyModern almanacs
as everyday objects.

Christophe Plantin annotated the verso side of this almanac he had printed for 1577. He added the date 17 October 1576, and wrote down a list of the proofreaders who worked for him at the time below some calculations!

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 63.10: 9 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:15283005/E)
#BookHistodons #bookhistory

The initial P is for Perching Bird!Fol. 78r in a thirteenth-century #manuscript Bible of Museum Plantin-Moretus...

The initial P is for Perching Bird!

Fol. 78r in a thirteenth-century #manuscript Bible of Museum Plantin-Moretus (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13971814/E)

#bookhistodon #bookhistory

My last day of work in 2022 couldn’t end better than with this beauty: an incunable with the most wonderful decoration, an illuminated...

My last day of work in 2022 couldn’t end better than with this beauty: an incunable with the most wonderful decoration, an illuminated initial and a marvelous miniature! #lovemyjob

Happy holidays everyone!

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: O.B 6.9 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:3167046/E)

*to work of course

*to work of course

#HerBook Getting back at work after some sick days. On my desk: this beautiful 16th-century book printed in civilité by Ameet Tavernier on...

#HerBook Getting back at work after some sick days. On my desk: this beautiful 16th-century book printed in civilité by Ameet Tavernier on blue paper and bound in gold tooled brown leather for Maria Porquin on behalf of her father Lowys Porquin. #LoveMyJob #BookHistory #bookhistodons

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: O.B 9.3 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:6163892/E)

So fascinating to see preparatory manuscripts for printing. This one written by a professional scribe for Cornelius Kiliaan was intended to...

So fascinating to see preparatory manuscripts for printing. This one written by a professional scribe for Cornelius Kiliaan was intended to be printed in the Officina Plantiniana around c. 1600. It demonstrates how meticulously such manuscripts were revised. On one page, Kiliaan, for example, made an annotation in the margins that his epigram should be placed elsewhere in the book.

Museum Plantin-Moretus: M 14.2 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13282193/E)
#BookHistory #Bookhistodon

Stumbled upon these two imprints of #illuminated letters in a Plantin book from 1558, the only remnants of a #medieval #fragment used as...

Stumbled upon these two imprints of #illuminated letters in a Plantin book from 1558, the only remnants of a #medieval #fragment used as tabs (bookmarks)!

Copy of @britishlibrary: 1061.b.1.
#RareBooks

My first day in the British Library does not disappoint. Currently looking at an exquisite binding made by Christophe Plantin himself, with...

My first day in the British Library does not disappoint. Currently looking at an exquisite binding made by Christophe Plantin himself, with gold-tooled and painted decoration and gauffered edges. You can even see fragments of a #medieval manuscript used to reinforce the binding!

Shelfmark: C108bb38
#RareBooks #bookbinding

Got to see the most amazing drawings that the renowned Baroque painter Rubens made when he was only twelve years (!) old… Can you...

Got to see the most amazing drawings that the renowned Baroque painter Rubens made when he was only twelve years (!) old… Can you imagine?!

Museum Plantin-Moretus: PK.OSB.0192 (digital reproduction dams.antwerpen.be/asset/a2FXWNoe…)
#bookhistory #bookhistodon #RareBooks

Imagine being the compositor who has to arrange the type for this #earlymodern broadsheet…‘Wereldts dool-hof’, printed by...

Imagine being the compositor who has to arrange the type for this #earlymodern broadsheet…

‘Wereldts dool-hof’, printed by eighteenth-century Antwerp printer Petrus Josephus Rymers

#RareBooks #BookHistodons

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R. 63.84: 334 (not yet catalogued)

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: O.B. 6.8 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:934096/E)

Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: O.B. 6.8 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:934096/E)

The copy contains salmon-colored silk pastedowns. It is partially printed on parchment, and is coloured by hand. /2

The copy contains salmon-colored silk pastedowns. It is partially printed on parchment, and is coloured by hand. /2

A very special #HerBook example: this beautiful and luxurious leather binding with gold tooled stamps of the capital letters M and D is a...

A very special #HerBook example: this beautiful and luxurious leather binding with gold tooled stamps of the capital letters M and D is a copy of a account on the travels of Maria de Medicis to the Netherlands. This particular copy was gifted to her. #bookhistory #bookhistodons /1

(I added alt text to my images, where did it go? 😐)

(I added alt text to my images, where did it go? 😐)