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[Deel I]

[pagina i]

THE GOLDEN COMPASSES THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF PLANTIN-MORETUS

VOLUME I

 

[pagina iii]

THE GOLDEN COMPASSES

A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp in two volumes

by

DR LEON VOET

Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp

volume i

CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN AND THE MORETUSES: THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WORLD

AMSTERDAM: VANGENDT & CO

LONDON: ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL

NEW YORK: ABNER SCHRAM

 

[pagina iv]

© 1969 by Dr. Leon Voet, Antwerp

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means without previous permission in writing from the publishers

A.L. VANGENDT & CO N.V. AMSTERDAM

Commonwealth of Nations

ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD LONDON

SBN 7100 6466 7

North America

ABNER SCHRAM (SCHRAM ENTERPRISES LTD) NEW YORK

SBN 8390 0003 0

German Language Area

DR. ERNST HAUSWEDELL & CO HAMBURG

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-20318

Set in Monotype Bembo Series 270

Blocks by Photogravure De Schutter, Antwerp

Printed and bound by St.-Augustinusdrukkerij Desclée De Brouwer, Bruges

PRINTED IN BELGIUM

 

[pagina ix]

Contents

	Preface	v
	the plantin-moretus dynasty
1.	Christophe Plantin, a Prince of Printers	3
	Origin and youth	3
	The bookbinder Plantin in Antwerp (1548/9-1555)	11
	The turning point: the bookbinder becomes a printer (1555)	17
	Plantin the heretic	21
	The first years as a printer (1555-1562)	31
	The flight to Paris (1562-1563)	34
	The period of the ‘Compagnie’ (1563-1567)	44
	The year of the great fear (1567)	50
	The beginning of the expansion (1568-1572)	60
	The year of crisis: 1572	73
	The peak years (1573-1576)	80
	The years of turmoil (1576-1582)	84
	The Leiden interlude (1583-1585)	105
	‘From our once flourishing press’ (1585-1589)	113
	Plantin the man	123
2.	Plantin's Descendants	139
	The Plantin family	139
	Willing and not so willing sons-in-law	147
	[Margareta Plantin and Frans Raphelengius - 147; Martina Plantin and Jan Moretus - 151; Catharina Plantin and her two husbands: Jehan Gassen and Hans Spierinck - 154; Magdalena Plantin and Egidius Beys - 157; Henrica Plantin and Pieter Moerentorf - 162]

 

 

[pagina x]

	Christophe Plantin's estate	162
	Those who disappeared from view	168
	[Margareta Plantin and the Raphelengius family - 169; Magdalena Plantin and the Beys and Périer families - 178; Catharina Plantin and the family of Arents, called Spierinck - 186; Henrica Plantin and the Moerentorf family - 187]
3.	Jan I Moretus (1589-1610)	191
4.	Balthasar I and Jan II Moretus (1610-1641; 1610-1618)	202
5.	Balthasar II Moretus (1641-1674)	216
6.	Balthasar III Moretus (1674-1696)	228
7.	The later Moretuses	238
	The later prosperity	239
	[Anna Maria de Neuf (1696-1714), Balthasar IV (1707-30), Joannes Jacobus (1716-57)]
	The collapse	244
	[Franciscus Joannes Moretus (1757-68) and Maria Theresia Borrekens (1768-97)]
	The French interlude	248
	The death throes	252
	[Lodewijk-Frans (1814-20), Albert (1820-65), and Edward Moretus (1865-76)]
	‘the big house called the plantin press’
8.	The Plantin Houses	259
9.	The House in the Vrijdagmarkt	265
	Plantin's reconstruction of the ‘Gulden Passer’ (1579-80)	271
	The ‘Gulden Passer’ in Plantin's last years	275
	Jan I Moretus and the ‘Gulden Passer’	276
	The ‘renovations’ of Balthasar I Moretus (1620-22)	278
	Balthasar I's second series of rebuilding works (1637-39)	282
	The busts in the courtyard	285
	The ‘Gulden Passer’ between 1640 and 1761	286
	The building of the new front (1761-63)	293
	The Plantin house becomes a museum	298
10.	The Patrician Residence	301
	Furniture	308
	Clocks	309

 

 

[pagina xi]

	Musical instruments	309
	Globes	310
	Porcelain and ceramics	311
	Embossed leather	311
	Tapestries	313
	Sculpture	314
	Painting	316
	Paintings in the Plantin-Moretus Museum	327
11.	The Library	338
12.	The Plantin House as a Humanist Centre	362
13.	The Plantin House as a Tourist Attraction	396
14.	The Plantin-Moretus Museum	407
	appendices
1.	A Tour of the Plantin-Moretus Museum	415
	The Entrance Hall and Staircase	415
	The Tapestry Room	416
	The Great Drawing-Room	417
	The Drawings and Manuscript Room	417
	The Courtyard	418
	The Shop	419
	The Back Room of the Shop	419
	The Tapestry Drawing-Room	419
	Genesis and History of the Book	419
	The Kitchen	420
	The Correctors' Room	420
	The Office	420
	The Justus Lipsius Room	421
	The Humanists' Room	421
	The Type Room	421
	The Printing Office	422
	The Staircase	422
	The First Plantin Room	422
	The Second Plantin Room	423
	The Little Library	423

 

 

[pagina xii]

	The Moretus Room	423
	The Rubens Room	423
	The Antwerp Printers' Room	424
	The Drawing-Room	424
	The Archives Room	425
	The Geography Room	425
	The Foreign Printers' Room	425
	The Small Drawing-Room	426
	The Bedroom	426
	The Book Illustration Room	426
	The Foundry Work Room	427
	The Foundry	427
	The Large Library	428
	The Second Library	428
	The Max Horn Room (Old Bookbindings)	428
	Collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum	429
2.	Chronological List of Masters of the ‘Gulden Passer’	430
3.	Genealogy of the Masters of the ‘Gulden Passer’	431
4.	Notes on the Genealogy of the Later Moretuses	436
5.	The Plantinian Printing Office: Presses in Operation (1564-1765)	437
6.	Notes on the Currency and Money Values in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries	440
	bibliography	447
	index	475

 

 

[Deel II]

[pagina I]

THE GOLDEN COMPASSES

THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF PLANTIN-MORETUS

VOLUME II

 

[pagina III]

THE GOLDEN COMPASSES

A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp in two volumes

by

DR LEON VOET

Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp

VOLUME 2

THE MANAGEMENT OF A PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE

AMSTERDAM: VANGENDT & CO

LONDON: ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL

NEW YORK: ABNER SCHRAM

 

[pagina IV]

© 1972 Dr. Leon Voet, Antwerp

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form of by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without previous permission in writing from the publishers

A.L. VANGENDT & CO N.V. AMSTERDAM

ISBN 90-6300-004-9

Commonwealth of Nations

ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD LONDON

0-7100-6467-5

North America

ABNER SCHRAM (SCHRAM ENTERPRISES LTD) NEW YORK

0-8390-0004-9

German Language Area

DR. ERNST HAUSWEDELL & CO HAMBURG

Translated from the manuscript by

RAYMOND H. KAYE

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-20318

Set in Monophoto Bembo Series 270

Lithographed, printed, and bound by St.-Augustinusdrukkerij, Bruges

Typography and cover design Huib van Krimpen

PRINTED IN BELGIUM

 

[pagina IX]

Contents

	Preface	v
	introductory
1.	Records and Accounts	3
	The business, its spheres of operation	7
	the printer's materials
2.	Paper and Parchment	19
3.	Ink	47
4.	Type Material	51
	Typefaces and founts	53
	Punches and matrices	58
	Cast type	91
	the printer's techniques and methods
5.	The Printing Shop	129
	The press	132
	Compositor's equipment	142
6.	Choice of Type, Format and Size of Edition	154
	Type designs	154
	Format	160
	Size of edition	169
7.	Proof Correction	174
8.	Illustration	194
	Colouring of illustrations	242

 

 

[pagina X]

9.	Binding	244
	Minor processes	251
	publishing
10.	Censorship and Privileges	255
11.	Manuscripts and Authors	279
12.	Production Times	302
	working conditions and industrial relations
13.	The Printing Press and its Staff	309
	The compositors	311
	The pressmen	318
	The collators	328
	The ‘gouverneur’	331
	The relationship between compositors and pressmen	333
	General working conditions	343
	The apprentices	351
14.	An Unruly Republic	357
	The chapel	361
	The sick fund	372
	sales and finances
15.	Costing	379
	Wages as part of the running costs	385
16.	Sales	387
	Selling prices	388
	Analysis of a financial year	390
	The markets	392
	Trade in other publishers' books	417
	Publicity	422
	Storage, packing, and transport	425
17.	Computations and Payments	440
18.	Loans	454
19.	Difficulties of the Business	459

 

 

[pagina XI]

	appendixes
1.	Balance-sheet of the Firm's Activities in the Year 1566	467
2.	Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1566	470
3.	Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1609	482
4.	Books Bought and Sold in the Year 1650	491
5.	The Frankfurt Book Fair: Lent 1579	500
6.	The Frankfurt Book Fairs: Lent and September 1609	507
7.	Sales Figures for Some Publications of Plantin	519
8.	Impositions and Folding Schemes	526
9.	Additional Notes to Volume 1	562
	bibliography	565
	index	581