At Museum Plantin-Moretus we still hold the family’s own books. This 1566 Antwerp edition of Cicero, once owned by Franciscus Raphelengius II, is filled with his pen trials, monograms and even a red‑chalk sketch of the Plantin press device. Such objects bring us closer to the people who lived here.

Our unicorn is the first to arrive in Potsdam for the "World Summit of Unicorns" #museumbarberini #unicorn #einhorn

Na een leven gewijd te hebben aan het opmeten van de aarde, mag hij het nu gaan proberen in hogere sferen. After a life dedicated to measuring the Earth, he can now try his luck in higher spheres. In memoriam Frans Depuydt (1939-2025)

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures. Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

A few years ago we celebrated life together under the motto "Life is a song, sing it". All beautiful songs come to an end. Fortunately, every ending is also a new beginning. Grateful for what has been, we now each go our own way. We remain connected, through the love for our children.

Strange that no one asked which engravings are on the image side of the newly acquired copper plates. The answer: the images on pages 103 and 123 of Otto van Veen, Amoris divini emblemata (Antwerp, M. Nutius & J. Meursius, 1615; Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana B. Moreti, 1660). #copperplates

Great day at work today. Purchase of two 17th century copper plates, both with a mark of the Antwerp coppersmith Peeter Stas. Here is a photo and macro shot of the same mark on one of the plates. #copperplates

March 8, 2025: Wonderful woodblocks and curious copper plates Paper presentation for the Antwerp Bibliophile Society "A number of recent discoveries are being pieced together for the first time."

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Virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social, hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social! Weds Feb 19th 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT / 6:30pm CET. Register now! Pub date Feb 4. 1/15 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #HAMH www.crowdcast.io/c/monsters-h...

Unexpected Friday find: a sheet bound in a Sammelband after a 1566 Antwerp edition of Joannes de Sacrobosco’s Sphaera with uncut parts of a volvelle diagram(!) #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory #woodcut #printhistory 📜 📚💙

Map detectives to the rescue (bis)! We're looking for a (most probably) 2-sheet map of Geldern with this cartouche in the lower right corner (copper plates reversed here). The text reads "La deffaicte de l'Ennemy pa[r] Son Exc. Comte Henry van[den] Berg[h]"

Daydream I fell asleep amid the flowers For a couple of hours On a beautiful day #wallacecollection #hiddengeminlondon

Map detectives to the rescue! We are searching for a printed map depicting the siege of Frankenthal (Pfalz), which happened from 1621 to 1623. #blocksplatesstones #earlymodernmaps #skystorians #maphistory

Did you know that you can scroll through our more than 100 sets of letter punches? Every single punch has been digitized in microscopic detail. #plantinmoretus #printinghistory #letterpunches

Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...

#hivemind #skystorians, perhaps especially museums & curators: I'm trying to locate this joiner's toolbox, purportedly made by William Hewlett in 1773. This is the only info I have & I'm trying to find out more—esp. if it still exists & where it is. Has anyone seen this before? #histsci 🏛️ #craft 🗃️

What a nice gem from our collection of copper plates! A printer's mark of the Officina Plantiniana.