Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.ST.050
Title
- Letterstempels Hebreeuws 'Gros Hebreu Fort Gros'
Creator
Guillaume Le (I) Bé
Production place
Parijs
Production date
1559
Description
33 letterstempels. In 1562 kocht Plantin deze stempels, de matrijzen en de betreffende gietvorm van Guillaume I Le Bé.
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. 19
- 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. 2, nr. 3
- Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, French renaissance printing types: a conspectus, 2010, nr. 403