| Editor & Curator |
Yona Fischer. |
| Collection |
Museum Plantin Moretus. |
| Imprint |
Jerusalem, Israel, 1981. 121 pp., illustrations: 47 b&w, 24.4 × 19.1 cm. Hebrew and English. |
| Location |
Israel Museum (3 February–30 April 1981) |
| Description |
The history of the Plantin press. Introduction by Leon Voet. In-depth essay on the historical and political context in which Plantin worked, the nature of Hebrew printing under the Inquisition, Plantin’s activities, his humanist center, his Hebrew typefaces, the work of his punchcutter Guillame Le Be, his Hebrew books, the Polyglot Bible in Antwerp, and Bible illustration in Antwerp. Detailed listing of exhibits. 49 items. |
| main keywords |
ANTWERPHEBREW PRINTING, ANTWERPHEBREW PRINTING, TYPEFACESPLANTIN, CHRISTOPHERPRINTED BOOKS |
| minor keywords |
BelgiumHebrew printers |