Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.08144
Title
- Printer's mark of the Officina Plantiniana
Creator
Christoffel Jegher (woodcutter (printmaker))
Production date
1652
Description
Compass used by hand emerging from cloud; flanked by Hercules with club (Labor) and woman (Constantia)
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Dimensions
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Breviarium Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum, S. Pii V. pontificis maximi jussu editum, 1762, fol. *3 verso (in rood gedrukt)
- Breviarium Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum, S. Pii V pontificis maximi jussu editum, Clementis VIII primum, nunc denuò Urbani papae VIII auctoritate recognitum, 1770, fol. r8 verso
Literature
- Gustave van Havre, Marques typographiques des imprimeurs et libraires anversois, 1883-1885, dl. 2, p. 177, 179 (ill.), Jean-Jacques Moretus, François-Jean Moretus et la veuve de ce dernier nr. 101
- Gustave van Havre, Les marques typographiques de l'imprimerie plantinienne, 1911, p. 91, 93, Jean-Jacques Moretus, François-Jean Moretus et la veuve de ce derniernr. 101