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Ordinance, [1555-1556]

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Record ID cp011497
Voet reference number 2070
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:3246946
Corporate Author PLANTIN PRESS
Title page transcription [Heading:] ORDONNANCIE ENDE COVSTVME DER DRVC ‖ KERIE VAN MEESTER CHRISTOFFEL PLANTIN, GHEORDONNEERT MET ‖ CONSENT VANDEN MEESTER ENDE DE GHESELLEN OM LIEFDE ENDE EENDRACHTICHEYT ‖ met malcanderen te houden, ende om malcanders profijt, vvelclze [sic] alle ghesellen die daer ‖ nv zijn, oft comen sullen, schuldich zijn te onderhoudene.
Collation Broadside (c. 400 × c. 235)
Fingerprint 000001 - # b1=b2 Velde laes$de
Number of sheets 1
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Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus - 2-4 - printed on vellum
Bibliographical references Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 6446
Online bibliographical references STCV c:stcv:12914587
Note 1 Printed underneath: Ghesigneert by den Meester, ende by den ghesellen die hier na volghen, den XIIII Nouembris. [follow seven - printed - names].
Note 2 The first ordinance of the Plantin Press, to be dated 14 November 1555 or 1556. Cf. L. Voet, 'The Printer's Chapel', pages 4-6.
Note 3 The text (= Ordinance G) published by M. Sabbe, pages 654-656.
Note 4 According to Paul Valkema Blouw, the typographical appearance shows that this ordinance was only produced by Plantin’s press far later, probably in the period when he was printer to the States General. (Blouw, Dutch Typography, 252)
Further reading Blouw, Paul Valkema. ‘Plantin’s Relations with Hendrik Niclaes’. In Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw. Edited by Ton Croiset van Uchelen and Paul Dijstelberge. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013.

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