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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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Title
 Type foundry, Plantin-Moretus Museum

Creator
 Haan, M. de (auteur/author), Hogenhout, J. (auteur/author), Aleva, L. (fotograaf/photographer), Visser, F. (fotograaf/photographer)

Year
 [ca. 1980]

Type
 dia, slide

Related term
 lettergieterijen, lettergieten

Period
 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw

Classification
 C: Paleografie, letterontwerp, lettertypen, lettergieten, schrift

Content
 This area on the top floor of the Plantin-Moretus Museum was, from the first quarter of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, used as a type foundry. The two melting furnaces can be seen in which type metal was melted.

Original
 Haan, M. de; Hogenhout, J; Aleva, L en Visser, F. - Plantijn bij voorbeeld. Boekdrukken in de 16e en 17e eeuw. [Toelichting bij een serie dia's over het drukproces in de 16e en 17e eeuw, uitgegeven door het Museum Plantijn Moretus in Antwerpen, jaren tachtig vorige eeuw]

@description
 Antwerpen Museum Plantin Moretus

@reproduction
 Antwerpen Museum Plantin Moretus