The making of a Renaissance book
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✎ Suggest a correctionGives a brief history of Christopher Plantin's 16th century printing press. Its printing materials and archives are housed at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, Belgium. Also demonstrates the process of creating a printed book in the tradition of the Renaissance.
Credits
American Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum; Museum Plantin-Moretus; Book Arts Press; Clerens (frans); Léon Voet; Atchley (dana)
Complete catalog record
Original source: Filmed at the Plantin-Moretus Museum. | Originally issued in 16mm film in 1969. | Filmed by Dana Atchley with the cooperation of Le︠on Voet, Frans Clerens and the Museum staff.
Release: Charlottesville, VA : Owned and distributed by the Book Arts Press, 2000.
Physical description: 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in. | polyester
Subjects: Books -- History -- 1450-1600 | Printing -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century | Printing -- Netherlands -- Leiden -- History -- 16th century | Books | Printing | Belgium -- Antwerp | Netherlands -- Leiden | Plantijnsche Drukkerij | Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589 | 1450-1600
Country: Belgium
Release: Charlottesville, VA : Owned and distributed by the Book Arts Press, 2000.
Physical description: 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in. | polyester
Subjects: Books -- History -- 1450-1600 | Printing -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century | Printing -- Netherlands -- Leiden -- History -- 16th century | Books | Printing | Belgium -- Antwerp | Netherlands -- Leiden | Plantijnsche Drukkerij | Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589 | 1450-1600
Country: Belgium
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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