Old Paper Collector

Nice fragment of Saint Augustine’s Confessions (15th Century?).
This fragment was probably once used in a book binding.

Parchment that was no longer read was often used to reinforce book bindings (1st pic). Sometimes printed paper was also used for this purpose (2nd pic). But ca 130y later, we find it regrettable that ex dono's were glued onto paper that was once labelled as unusable. #rarebooks #tomorrowsresearch

In 1866, Dutch artist Alexander Ver Huell painted this allegory of the cholera epidemic as a spectral “guardian of the borders.” The irony? He believed cholera, not diplomacy, kept Prussian armies from invading the Netherlands. #Cholera #1866 #satire #medicalhistory

I love your uncut example! 😍

Missale Romanum (1619 Bellerum)

Thesaurus sacrorum rituum, seu commentaria in rubricas missalis et breviarii Romani (1646 Plantin)

Missale Romanum (1837 Plantin)

Thank you! This one is in my collection. At the moment I am researching them in books from my collection.

Thank you! I see only the center one in your link. The date 1700-1800 is quite broad 😄. I expect there isn’t much documentation about these altar cards.

Does anyone know more about altar cards (tabellae secretarum) printed by the Plantin Press in Antwerp?

I’m researching a framed Tridentine set with the imprint Antverpiæ, ex Architypographia Plantiniana, likely ca. 1750-1800(?).

No succes on their website.

#BookHistory #PrintCulture #Plantin

Very nice! I am a collector of recycled manuscripts!

Just acquired this antiphonary leaf, featuring the Office of St Lawrence, it’s mounted in stained glass.

Have you ever seen a manuscript fragment reused like this? I’d love to hear from others who’ve encountered similar examples.

#manuscriptfragments #antiphonary #bookhistory #stainedglas

My friend the great publisher Balthasar Moretus, born OTD in 1574 and depicted here by Erasmus Quellinus.

Renaissance Rudolph! 😄

What a printer mark! 😍

Just received this 16th C. (?) antiphonary bifolium — over 45 cm tall, likely used on a lectern for choir singing. Beautifully penned in Gothic textualis with verses from Psalm 67. Later reused as a document folder. Part of my collection of manuscript fragments in reuse.

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#bookhistory
#recycling

French legal text from 1618, bound in a parchment page from a 100 year older Book of Hours, probably published in Paris.

#bookhistory
#recycling
#maculature

Inderdaad, dat zou weggegooid geld zijn.

Handcoloured engraved title page of the Biblia sacra with allegorical figures and the imprint and Plantin’s printer’s mark

Beautifully handcoloured map of Canaan as a folded plate with gold leaf.

Page in the book with printed text of the book of Joshua with an engraving opening the text, which is handcoloured

How’s your day going?
Mine’s going great because I got to do show & tell again, presenting this wonderfully handcoloured copy of the Biblia sacra, printed by Christophe Plantin in 1583!

#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Beautiful! The same Canaan map as in the Biblia Polyglotta!

Hij mag tussen Willie en Max in blijven slapen.

My favorite album actually! Tales of Mystery and Imagination!

📜 Thronus Salomonis — a majestic Marian image after Adriaen Millaert, engraved by Cornelius Galle II and published by Cornelis de Boudt (Antwerp, ~1700).
In 1913, this print was dedicated to Paul Cogels by the Jesuit Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp.
#bookhistory #Antwerp #baroque #prints

Beautiful!

I try to visit the museum once a year. The best museum in my opinion!

Happy 149th anniversary Plantin-Moretus Museum!
@zannavanloon.bsky.social @kristofselle.bsky.social @joostdepuydt.bsky.social

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#plantin
#moretus
#bookhistory

De archeologie van het boek 😍

“Elige: vitæ et mortis. Huc crux ducit, huc voluptas.”
Choose life or death. The cross leads one way, pleasure the other.

Jan and Jacob van Meurs - Antwerp, 1647)

#MementoMori #bookhistory #baroque

Discovered an intriguing 19th-century French clipping warning of the perils of drunkenness, tucked inside a 1707 #Plantin Press breviary printed by Anna Maria de Neuf, widow of Balthasar Moretus. A fascinating glimpse of moral messaging preserved in an unlikely place. #BookHistory

White smoke!

Feeling privileged to leaf through a truly beautiful book from my collection. Here’s a Psalter printed in Antwerp by the #Plantin Press in 1713 — a testament to early modern craftsmanship. ❤️❤️❤️

#bookhistory #liturgy