I wish I had the opportunity to have formal study about my books, but in my area of the Netherlands is no formal training about early modern...
Thank you for your kind words. The fragments are made of parchment, not paper. That is why they are recycled several times.
As you see these sheets had multiple usages: 1. The skin of an animal 2. A manuscript 3. A frisket sheet 4. Book reinforcement. That is a...
As several of you know one of my interests is the old book as a historical object. Sometimes I can completely nerd out as a book collector. This...
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I see you have bought your drawing from Marktplaats, so we can assume JP Gentenaar is not someone from South Africa or the US. I tried to search...
I read the same. J. P. Gentenaar. The same watermark i found in a manuscript in my collection from 1725. I expect the binding a bit older than...
I visited quite a few book museums in my life. Some mediocre and some fantastic. Here are my best 3. Which would you recommend? My Top 3. If you...
A great little book! Thanks for sharing!
This is a new addition to my collection: a large Bible printed in 1583 by Christophe Plantin (~1520-1589). The book is bound in a probably 17th...
The death scene is called Mortis Certitudo (The Certainty of Death) This engraving illustrates the inevitability of death. A skeletal Death draws...
Another addition to my collection! This book is (unfortunately) not complete, it contains only 97 of the 102 copper engravings, designed by the...
Thank you, I didn’t know it was active until so recently.
Thank you for your compliment! I don’t use anything special. I only use an old iPhone and good light (good light is more important than the camera...
The copper plates were engraved in the 18th century and still in the museum. They also have a large collection of originsl woodcuts in their...
You have a good eye! I believe is it Ephesian Artemis (Diana), the twin sister of Apollo. Here another example from the same book, again designed...
In the 19th and the early 20th century it was normal for a museum to use old wood blocks or copper plates to sell souvenirs. Sometimes they...
Nice! By incident I bought a few altar cards (as in your last photo) a few weeks ago! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After a painting of David Teniers the Younger? [ATTACH] https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/10709/
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