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STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of #earlymodern books printed in Flanders｜Service of @erfgoedbibs｜Tweets by @wyffelsheleen & team

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STCV cataloguers often find themselves in fascinating places such as the Church-of-Our-Lady in Aarschot, where we work under the watchful eye of this friendly guard. At the moment, we are cataloguing a set of 18th-c ordinances about topics such as natural disasters & deserters
The hands of our intern using a ruler to measure the type area of a broadsheet

ALT The hands of our intern using a ruler to measure the type area of a broadsheet

Life-sized puppet sporting a mustache and dressed in ceremonial clothes

ALT Life-sized puppet sporting a mustache and dressed in ceremonial clothes

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Copy of AOLV-Aarschot 21/5 - STCV 12920691 Copy of AOLV-Aarschot 22/10 - STCV 12928582 #rarebooks #bookhistory #AustrianNetherlands
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When you want to cite someone but also make clear that they are absolutely wrong. This book by Jean Hessels (1522-66), theology professor at Leuven university, puts the words of heretics between [brackets] to avoid confusion. Or, how typography helps save your soul!
Notice in Latin at the beginning of the book which alerts the reader to the use of square brackets 'to help avoid mistakes'

ALT Notice in Latin at the beginning of the book which alerts the reader to the use of square brackets 'to help avoid mistakes'

The brackets in use on a page to warn the reader about the opinions of Brentius

ALT The brackets in use on a page to warn the reader about the opinions of Brentius

Title page of the book 'Probatio corporalis praesentiae corporis' with printer's device featuring a book and a heart

ALT Title page of the book 'Probatio corporalis praesentiae corporis' with printer's device featuring a book and a heart

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Copy of @SpColl_KULeuven CaaA1525/4 STCV 12928540 #rarebooks #typography
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Which rare book would you ask to be your Valentine? To start off celebrations for STCV's 25th anniversary, we want to highlight your favourite rare books printed in Flanders. Want to share your love story? Click on the link to send us your favourite bit.ly/4bhmLJf
Printer's device of Jan I Bogard featuring a winged heart and book

ALT Printer's device of Jan I Bogard featuring a winged heart and book

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#rarebooks #STCV25 #bookhistory
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Our colleagues from MMFC have discovered framents of a rare Flemish incunable! #collaboration #rarebooks
MMFC: Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections (@MMFCbe) profile pictureMMFC: Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections@MMFCbe22 Oct 2024
An unexpected stowaway found in an illuminated legder from the archives of the abbey of Maagendaal (Oplinter): two snippets from an incunable or post-incunable edition of 'Der sielen troest', with the Middle Dutch version of the bestseller Amicus et Amelius. #fragmentology
Image from MMFC: Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections (@MMFCbe)
Image from MMFC: Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections (@MMFCbe)
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The beginning of autumn has called students back to their books. The owner of this 1568 edition of Virgil’s Georgics & Aeneid definitely took his studies seriously with notes in the margins & on extra blank leaves. But sometimes you need to let your artistic talent take the lead!
Doodle of a little owl

ALT Doodle of a little owl

Verso page with notes next to an added blank leaf, filled with neat handwritten notes

ALT Verso page with notes next to an added blank leaf, filled with neat handwritten notes

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Copy of @SpColl_KULeuven CaaA1196/4 STCV 12928393 #rarebooks #AcademicWriting
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“I am Rudolphus Snellius” did he write confidently on the title page. Previous owners are sometimes hard to identify, but not Rudolph Snel van Royen. He was a Dutch linguist & mathematician at the University of Leiden. Amongst his pupils were Jacobus Arminius & Hugo Grotius
Engraved portrait of Snellius looking pensive, dressed in a ruff and fur

ALT Engraved portrait of Snellius looking pensive, dressed in a ruff and fur

Close-up of the bottom of the title page, with the inscription 'Sum Rodolphi Snellii Veteraguinatis'

ALT Close-up of the bottom of the title page, with the inscription 'Sum Rodolphi Snellii Veteraguinatis'

Title page of Lipsius' comments on Tacitus Annales with printer's mark of Christophe Plantin

ALT Title page of Lipsius' comments on Tacitus Annales with printer's mark of Christophe Plantin

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Copy of @SpColl_KULeuven CaaA284 STCV 12928268 #rarebooks #bookhistory
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Have you ever brought your own subtitles to the theatre? With this playbook for Li tre cicisbei ridicoli the audience in Brussels could read the Italian & a French translation side by side. The introduction warns not to expect an elegant translation, as it is done word by word,/1
Opened book with the Italian Atto I on the left page and the French Acte I on the right page

ALT Opened book with the Italian Atto I on the left page and the French Acte I on the right page

Title page

ALT Title page

Page with a warning to the reader about the inelegance of the translation

ALT Page with a warning to the reader about the inelegance of the translation

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to help the audience follow along. Copy of @KCBrussel 22246 STCV 12869640 #rarebooks #bookhistory
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Are you travelling this summer? Don’t forget your passport! This printed form from 1700 -once filled out by the Louvain Volunteer Corps- granted its owner permission to travel freely. Whith seal of the Corps already attached, this copy is ready for use.
Form with the city arms of Leuven, followed by a short text with gaps. At the bottom there is a seal attached to the form

ALT Form with the city arms of Leuven, followed by a short text with gaps. At the bottom there is a seal attached to the form

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Copy of @M_useumLeuven 2023.75 STCV 12928170 #rarebooks #bookhistory
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The Antwerp printer Jan van Keerberghen might have needed to buy some extra 0’s when he published the mathematician Adriaan van Roomen's 'Ideæ mathematicæ pars prima' (1593). It proposed calculations to determine the sides of regular polygons. That’s a lot of numbers to print! /1
Title page of the book

ALT Title page of the book

Page 9 of the book, showing long rows of numbers grouped by 4

ALT Page 9 of the book, showing long rows of numbers grouped by 4

Two pages of the book showing more rows of numbers with lots of zeroes

ALT Two pages of the book showing more rows of numbers with lots of zeroes

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Later, he would also calculate the number pi to sixteen decimals. Copy of @SpColl_KULeuven CaaA713 STCV 12927775 #rarebooks #bookhistory #math
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The placement of this supralibros feels off. Its owner Jacobus Pamelius, a 16th-century theologian, collected a large library but did not commission a new binding for each book. Instead, he had his coat of arms & motto ‘Davltrvi te pasmesle’ added to the existing binding.
Front cover of the binding with gold tooling. Pamelius' mark is blind stamped in the middle, slightly off center

ALT Front cover of the binding with gold tooling. Pamelius' mark is blind stamped in the middle, slightly off center

Front cover of the binding with gold tooling. Pamelius' mark is blind stamped in the middle, slightly off center

ALT Front cover of the binding with gold tooling. Pamelius' mark is blind stamped in the middle, slightly off center

Engraved portrait of Jacobus Pamelius as bishop of Saint-Omer. He was nominated but died before he could take up this function.

ALT Engraved portrait of Jacobus Pamelius as bishop of Saint-Omer. He was nominated but died before he could take up this function.

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Copy of @SpColl_KULeuven CaaA585 - STCV 12928306 Portrait: Rijksmuseum RP-P-1912-735 And here is an example of an incunable receiving the same treatment: KU Leuven Libraries GBIB-P Inc GSM 29 - STCV 12928245 - bit.ly/4cMG9NX
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Thank you to @SpColl_KULeuven for hosting our workshop last week! Ten fantastic participants learned how to analyse and describe rare books. We practiced with a selection of rare books from the collection to determine bibliographic formats, fingerprints, collation formulas & more
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections (@SpColl_KULeuven) profile pictureKU Leuven Libraries Special Collections@SpColl_KULeuven14 Jun 2024
Just before the weekend, and after a week full of bibliographical descriptions of #rarebooks, the participants of the @STCV workshop visited Special Collections.
Image from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections (@SpColl_KULeuven)
Image from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections (@SpColl_KULeuven)
Image from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections (@SpColl_KULeuven)
Image from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections (@SpColl_KULeuven)
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Read more about our workshop on our website (in Dutch): bit.ly/4cpBeln
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