| Record ID | cp010267 |
| Voet reference number | 2076 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3249019 |
| Corporate Author | PLANTIN PRESS |
| Title page transcription | [Without heading or title] Five in folio sheets, 445 × 285, each printed on the inner pages (i.e. folio 1Ro: blank; folio 1v: printed; folio 2r: printed; folio 2v: blank). |
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| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus (folio Varia IX [R 63.8-[4], no. 103, folios 125-136: complete textFolios 135-144: fragmentsR 24.27: register in which cut-out fragments, each representing a type-body, have been pasted up) |
| Bibliographical references | H. Carter, 'The Types of Christopher Plantin' in The Library, 1956, pages 170-179 (with an adapted reproduction of the type specimen, given as a hors-texte) H. Carter, 'Plantin's types and their makers' in De Gulden Passer, 34, 1956, pages 121-143 (the same adapted reproduction given as a hors-texte, with additional notes, identifying the makers of a large part of the type-bodies). Facsimile reprint with commentary: Reproductions of Christopher Plantin's "Index sive specimen characterum" 1567 & Folio specimen of c. 1585 together with the Le Bé - Moretus specimen c. 1599, with annotations by H.D.L. Vervliet and H. Carter, London, 1972 (fundamental study) |
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| Note 1 | Specimen of the types available to Plantin, presented in decreasing body-size (in the register: pasted up according to type-kind, but with some exceptions); in all 90 specimens: 33 Roman, 13 Italic, 22 Gothic (15 'Flamande' or black-letter, 1 'bastarde', 2 'Allemande', 3 Civilité, 1 'Canon d'Espaigne' [Espagne] or round Gothic), 8 Greek, 10 Hebrew, 1 Syriac, 3 Music. |
| Note 2 | In his studies, Carter dates the Type Specimen c. 1579. M. Parker, K. Melis, H.D.L. Vervliet, 'Typographica Plantiniana II. Early inventories of punches, matrices, and moulds in the Plantin-Moretus Archives' in De Gulden Passer, 38, 1960, quote it as the c. 1580 folio Specimen. This means that no type-faces are listed which were bought or commissioned by Plantin after 1579-80. The actual folio Specimen itself, however, must have been compiled and printed in 1585-86, when, after the capitulation of Antwerp and the resulting business-regression, Plantin considered seriously to close his office or in any case to sell a substantial part of his typographical material. Cf. Plantin's letters to Arias Montanus, 7 December 1585 (Corr., VII, no. 1052: Interea vero dum ociosa sunt nostra praela, curamus Inventarium quod vocant nostrarum rerum typographicarum cum speciminibus typorum, quod ubi absolutum erit, mittemus vobis ad experiendum num quis sit futurus istic qui (ne tam bene instructa typographia dissipetur) omnia emere velit possitque cum ipsa etiam domo ipsi typographiae commoda aptata, quo tandem vel hoc modo (si non statim alio tam saepe promisso fiat) a foenore et ab aere alieno me liberem'), and 22 December 1585 (Ibidem, no. 1058: 'Recensemus nunc genera et pondera typorum officinae nostrae typographicae et specimina imprimimus omnium…'), to de Çayas, 3 May 1586 (Ibidem, no. 1095: 'J'espere aussi qu'elle [= de Çayas] aura receu les monstres de la plus grande partie des lectres de mon Imprimerie que je suis contraint d'abandonner ou de cesser de plus besongner…'), to Tisnacq, 8 May 1586 (Ibidem, no. 1100: '…je m'estois maintenant resolu de faire l'inventaire de mon Imprimerie et de faire imprimer les monstres des differents characteres ou lectres fondues qui ont demeuré et sont encores presentement dedans nostredicte Imprimerie afin de l'envoyer premierement audict Sr. Çayas pour entendre s'il plairoit a quelqu'un par dela de les achapter, ce que j'ay faict le 5. jour de Febvrier de ceste annee…'). In the same sense: Vervliet - Carter in Reproductions..., 1972. |
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