Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341499
M. Matwijów
The paper is devoted to one of Poland’s first publications (and at the same time one counted among the largest of that time in Europe) of documentary source materials entitled Epistolae historico-familiares (vol. 1–3, Brunsbergae 1709–1711, vol. 4, Wratislaviae 1761), covering the history of Poland between 1667 and 1710. The article focuses on presenting the circumstances in which the work was created, its contents and the issues relating to the authenticity of some of the materials contained therein. The work was compiled over several years (1706–1710) in the immediate surroundings and under the guidance of Bishop of Warmia Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski and comprised ca. 2,040–2,050 textual documents, mainly his correspondence as well as various historical materials and current public life materials. Despite controversies related to Załuski falsifying some of his letters, the work has lost nothing of its significant source value to this day.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341501
R. Storm
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341496
Klara H. Broekhuijsen
The Natuurkunde van het Geheelal in Wolfenbüttel, which was made in Utrecht around 1465–1470 is a text about celestial bodies and meteorological and natural phenomena. Most copies of this text are clarified by astronomical drawings and diagrams. The manuscript in Wolfenbüttel, however, also contains miniatures with the personifications of the seven planets and the signs of the zodiac. The author’s aim is to find the source of inspiration for the unusual pictures of the planets in particular, and also for the signs of the zodiac.
《wolfenb特尔的Natuurkunde van het Geheelal》于1465年至1470年左右在乌得勒支制作,是一本关于天体、气象和自然现象的书。这本书的大部分抄本都用天文图和图表加以说明。然而,在wolfenb特尔的手稿中,也包含了七个行星的拟人化和黄道十二宫的标志的微缩模型。作者的目的是寻找灵感的来源,特别是行星的不寻常的图片,也为黄道十二宫的标志。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341500
David Mckitterick
{"title":"Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books; a Scholarly Anthology, edited by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and Paul J. Smith","authors":"David Mckitterick","doi":"10.1163/15700690-12341500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341500","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41348,"journal":{"name":"Quaerendo-A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47533001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341502
Marieke van Delft
{"title":"Incunabula in Transit. People and Trade, written by Lotte Hellinga","authors":"Marieke van Delft","doi":"10.1163/15700690-12341502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41348,"journal":{"name":"Quaerendo-A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48767546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341503
M. van Duijn
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341489
D. Imhof
In 1612, Balthasar I and Jan Moretus II, managers of the Antwerp Plantin Press, were able to buy the copperplates and the stock of Ortelius’s atlas in various languages at the auction of Jan Baptist Vrients’s possessions. The two brothers endeavored to sell what they purchased through various means and sold the copies as if they were new editions. In this article I trace the sale of Ortelius’s Spanish atlas in detail from 1612 to 1641. After an examination of the initial period of occasional sales between 1612 and 1630, I will turn to the unexpected confiscation of some copies of the atlas in Spain in 1630. I will conclude by demystifying the so-called 1641 edition. In this way, the distribution of Ortelius’s Spanish atlas in the first half of the seventeenth century will offer a remarkable overview of the afterlife of this once influential work.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341498
J.J.M. Vandommele
This article attributes a manuscript in the collection of the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, to Willem Silvius (c. 1520–1580), an Antwerp printer and a former writing master. The manuscript carries the title Variarum Scripturarum Exempla and contains 44 writing samples in eight different languages. It probably served as Silvius’ personal writing-book, which he used to attract customers when he was working as a writing master in Louvain. In 1562 he intended to publish the manuscript as the first printed exemplar-book in the Low Countries which contained writing models for different languages and settings. Although this publication never materialised, Silvius’ writing-book is a testimonial for the life and the achievements of one of most significant printers of sixteenth century Antwerp.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341495
J. van de Kamp
For religious subcultures, the reading of religious books was of great importance, even for Roman Catholics, renowned for their ritual-mindedness and the prevailing limitations in terms of religious reading for laypeople. This article aims to reveal the extent to which the status and role of a subculture affected the printing history and reception of religious books. The Post-Reformation Low Countries – split into the South, where the Catholics were a dominant culture, and the Dutch Republic in the North, where they were a subculture – provides an excellent case study. A very popular meditation book serves as the source for the study, namely Sondaechs Schoole (Sunday school) (1623).
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341491
Arthur der Weduwen
{"title":"Sailing School. Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800, written by Margaret E. Schotte","authors":"Arthur der Weduwen","doi":"10.1163/15700690-12341491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41348,"journal":{"name":"Quaerendo-A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books","volume":"51 1","pages":"287-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44801232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}