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De STCV in de EHC, en de EHC in de STCV

De Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen is een online databank voor alle boeken die voor het jaar 1801 gedrukt zijn in Vlaanderen. De databank wordt momenteel beheerd door BibliothecairErfgoed.be. Wij zijn al sinds het begin van het project partner.

Marc Lichtenberg: oosterse mystiek en de Antwerpse Zestigers

De hand van de drukker in de ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse standaardtaal

Hoewel niemand het materiële belang van de boekdrukkunst voor de verspreiding van kennis, ideeën en teksten zal betwisten, blijven drukkers opvallend vaak figuranten in het verhaal van de Nederlandse standaardtaal. Aan de hand van Antwerpse drukken uit de periode 1730-1850 onderzocht Nelle Simonet of zij misschien toch eerder als hoofdrolspelers dan als figuranten moeten worden beschouwd. 

The trajectories of a sixteenth-century physician’s books

Upon opening a copy of the 1572 Venetian edition of Natale Conti’s Historiarum sui temporis libri decem, the ex-libris caught the attention of Dr. Nina Lamal. Opposite the title page of the book there was an engraved portrait of Alvarus Nonnius by Jan Wierix, dated 1586. In the following weeks, she came across the same portrait pasted in several other books in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library. Her interest was piqued: she wanted to reconstruct Nonnius’ library and investigate how his books became part of the collection of the Conscience library. This short blog offers the first results of that quest.

A Dog of Flanders

Recently, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library could add some fine titles to its collection of A Dog of Flanders-publications, including a Japanese version of the Suske & Wiske-comic featuring Nello and Patrasche.

A Tale of Two Books: Two Sammelbände given to Antwerp by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Assistant Professor Liza Blake examined two rare books which were donated to the Antwerp city library by the English noblewoman and author Margaret Cavendish, Marchioness of Newcastle (1623-1673). In this article she stresses the importance of this donation and explains why these particular copies merit further investigation.

Flemish collections on Italian humanism

Fabio Della Schiava is visiting professor in the history of humanism and neo-Latin Literature at the University of Leuven. Currently, he is working on a project about the reception of St. Augustine’s De civitate Dei. On 17 May he took his students in Latin Literature to the Hendrik Conscience Library for a workshop on Humanism. In this blogpost he gives us a vivid account of their visit.

Provenance research in the Conscience Library

Some books contain traces of earlier owners or users. These provenance marks can be used to research the way a book or text functioned in society, or to reconstruct the reading behaviour or book ownership of a person or a group of people.