How to retrieve stock copies of a specific edition in the huge stock of books built by 4 generations #OfficinaPlantiniana? Balthasar Moretus II drafted an inventory in 1643. He included letter codes referring to the 14 different attics and rooms where the books were stored.

Who can help me to locate 'Tyziniensi' in early modern Poland? The provost of this place, Jan Volerovski, visited the bookshop of the #PlantinPress in 1614. The entry reads: “R[everen]do D(omi]no Joanni Volerovskhi Preposito Tyziniensi estant present en Anvers”. #needyourhelp

When presenting on the Jesuit College of #Vilnius, Brigita Zorkienė mentions two editions of the #PlantinPress: Natalis and Nieremberg #PrintingCentersAndPeripheries #NationalLibraryOfLithuania

Excited for the opportunity to discuss the astonishing turns in the negotiations between Anna Goos and her son Balthasar Moretus III regarding the transfer of the #PlantinPress after Balthasar II died in 1674

Voor de liefhebbers van historische podcasts: in deze aflevering vertel ik hoe Christoffel Plantijn zijn drukkerij en uitgeverij uitbouwde in een tijd van diepgaande religieuze en politieke conflicten spotify.link/qyj8Rzbf1Db

The intaglio printers at the #PlantinPress seem to have made their own printing ink. This explains the presence in Gaspar Courtois’s 1742 tool list of 2 pairs of pliers for burning oil. Apart from tools for making lampblack, the list included clay pots for keeping varnish and ink

Several editions of #Erasmus ended up on the Index. In this copy of Christophe #Plantin’s 1570 Index of banned books, an early modern reader drew manicules pointing to each banned edition of Erasmus. Copy: UvA Special Collections OTM O 59-557 (2)

Anna Goos and the transfer of the Plantin Press to her Son Balthasar Moretus III (1676-1681) Door Kristof Selleslach 💫 Op symposium ‘Women and the Visual Arts in the Early Modern Low Countries’ 💃 Het Noordbrabants Museum #herbook 🤩

Calling a book historians! The Museum Plantin-Moretus is looking to establish a research network which looks at the relationship between the sixteenth-century English book trade and Christophe Plantin. This is a great project, if you would like to know more: cphc.org.uk/updates/2023/1…

Up first is Kristof Selleslach with a paper on the Officina Plantiniana’s business administration #USTC24

In December 1664, Balthasar Moretus III visited the study of Athanasius Kircher in the Collegio Romano in Rome, and according to his travel account, he was impressed: “we saw a variety of curiosities in the room of the very learned and renowned Father Kircher” (my translation)

Serendipity is unfathomable. In the morning, you show the mutilated journal of 16C grain merchant Harmen Janssen to a colleague; in the afternoon, you suddenly find missing fragments in the unrelated 17C inventory of Jacques Goos’s estate.

🔔Call for applications! Attention to all researchers studying #rarebooks: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library & Museum Plantin-Moretus are pleased to offer a travel grant for research in our collections. Deadline: October 1st, 2024! Find all the information here: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fellow… #bookhistory

Prosper Verheyden’s rubbing archive ('wrijfselarchief') is finally accessible!

How did Balthasar Moretus III learn the book trade from his father? In Riga, I will explore this topic in more detail.