Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.ST.037
Title
- Letterstempels gotische textura 'Mediane Flamande'
- Textura - Van den Keere's Pica Textura [80 mm]: punches
Creator
Hendrik van den Keere
Production date
1570 - 1571
Description
24 kapitalen, 28 onderkastletters, 3 ligaturen, 10 accentletters en 5 leestekens. In totaal 70 stempels. Vroegst gekend gebruik: Plantin, 1572
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. 58
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Sixteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries, 1968, p. 136-137: T28; fig. 84-85
- 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. 9, nr. 41