Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.ST.028
Title
- Letterstempels cursief 'Colineus Italique Poetique'
Creator
Robert Granjon
Production date
1565
Description
23 kapitalen, 19 onderkastletters, 10 ligaturen, 6 accentletters, 9 cijfers en 8 leestekens. De set omvat in totaal 75 stempels. Granjon sneed in 1565 deze stempels in opdracht van Plantin. Plantin gebruikt de letter vanaf 1566.
Object name
stempel
Material
metal
Dimensions
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Documentation
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Typographica Plantiniana: early inventories of punches, matrices and moulds in the Plantin-Moretus archives, 1960, p. 26
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Reproductions of Christopher Plantin's Index sive specimen characterum, 1567 and Folio specimen of c.1585 together with the Le Bé Moretus specimen, c.1599, 1972, p. 5, nr. 34
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, The palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: selected papers on sixteenth-century typefaces, 2008, dl. 2, p. 354, nr. 22
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, French renaissance printing types: a conspectus, 2010, nr. 236
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Robert Granjon, letter-cutter, 1513-1590 : an oeuvre-catalogue, 2018, p. 62, 70, 83, 95 en 150, fig. 24a en 24b