Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.ST.038
Title
- Letterstempels gotische textura 'Philosophie Flamande'
- Textura - Van den Keere's Small Pica Textura [72 mm]: punches
Creator
Hendrik van den Keere
Production date
1570
Description
25 kapitalen, 30 onderkastletters, 7 ligaturen, 9 accentletters, 9 cijfers en 3 leestekens. De set bevat in totaal 83 stempels. Vroegst gekend gebruik: Plantin, 1570
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. 156-157: T40; fig. 107-108
- 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. 10, nr. 48