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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
 Page from a cash book of Christopher Plantin, 1566

Year
 1566

Type
 handschrift, manuscript

Related term
 uitgeverijen, boekdrukkers, klantenboeken, handschriften

Period
 16e eeuw

Classification
 D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst

Content
 This page from a cash book of Christopher Plantin shows that this printer carefully wrote up transactions with his contacts (here payments and deliveries received from Willem Silvius, who had the largest printing house after Plantin in Antwerp).

Original
 Antwerpen, Museum Plantijn Moretus

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek