Skip to main content Skip to footer Skip to search Skip to menu

Images

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.

Search in
Search by

Title
 Type cases in the 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
 letterkasten, onderkast, bovenkast

Period
 17e eeuw

Classification
 D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst

Content
 Cast type was stored in two separate composition cases placed one on top of the other. The lower case served for the small letters and the upper case for the capitals (capitals and small capitals). Here type cases as they were used in the seventeenth century can be seen.

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