All you need to do is consult the wedding file, as most of the bills have been kept. The wedding party took place at Gaspar Offermans’ house, the bride’s brother-in-law. The food expenses run from here until image 541. Here is the meat bill.
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#earlymodern
#wedding

Impressed by this #earlymodern bill measuring 105 cm in length, which resembles an exceptionally lengthy supermarket receipt. Table linen merchant Hans van Velroeij supplied dozens of tablecloths and napkins for the wedding of Maria de Sweert and Jan Moretus II in July 1605.

#Skystorians
#Antwerp

Ready for my lecture on Cavagnole, an 18th-century game of chance played by the higher circles. I reinvented the game based on the handwritten rules I found in the Plantin-Moretus Archives. To play the game, you just need a deck of cards, coins, and a washcloth.

#Erfgoeddag
#Skystorians

Wannabe author Joannes Paulus de Mont already designed a title page for his book on the temptations of the Devil and the flesh. Unfortunately, the Antwerp priest never found a printer to actually publish his book.
#booksky
#bookhistory
#skystorians
#earlymodern
#antwerp

How do you correct (liturgical) proofs when you have three proofreaders at your disposal?
1. The first or oldest proofreader reads the red proof and corrects the 2nd and 3rd proofs.
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#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#howto
#proofreading
#anno1808

Looking at tiny holes with rusty brown edges, indicating that Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin once nailed this work regulation to the wall of his workshop.

#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#plantinpress
#workregulations
#skystorians

Creative accounting: #Earlymodern accountants often started a new accounting book with a calligraphic title. Contemporary accountants no longer have the opportunity to indulge their calligraphic talents in digital accounting systems.

#Accounting
#Calligraphy
#Skystorian
#History
#Booksky

I love the obsolete Dutch word ‘boeksluiter’, the contemporary term in the Plantin Archives to denote the craftsman who makes metal book clasps. Even women were employed in this trade like Willem vander Waeren’s widow. What would be the English equivalent for ‘boeksluiter’?
#bookhistory
#herbook

I have never seen Granjon's combinable ornaments so tiny as in this frame. I understand that sometimes you have to exhibit a facsimile instead of an original print, but why does the replica have to shrink so much?
#houseofeuropeanhistory
#bellumetartes
#bookhistory
#earlymodern
#typography

The first time Christophe Plantin used his trademark, he still included the letter ‘C’ of his first name. Later, Plantin and his successors from the Moretus family simplified the trademark to PLNT.
#bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

Very pleased to find facsimiles from the Plantin-Moretus Archives in the temporary exhibition "Text is not our type" at the National Library of Latvia

Presenting a paper on the training of Balthasar Moretus III on the shop floor of the #PlantinPress with a phenomenal view on Riga's old city on the background. I would like to thank the National Library of Latvia for this opportunity.

#bookhistory
#earlymodernhistory
#plantinmoretus