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Title
Title page with the printer's device of Jacob van Breda, Deventer, [1515]
Creator
Breda, J. van (drukker/printer)
Year
[1515]
Type
drukkersmerk, printer's device
Measurements
8,7 x 7 cm (drukkersmerk) 20 x 13,5 cm (pagina)
Related term
drukkersmerken, titelpagina's, boekdrukkerijen, houten handpersen, inktballen
Period
16e eeuw
Classification
D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst
Content
This printer's device of one of the most important printers in Deventer, Jacob van Breda, was used by more printers in the Netherlands. It dates back to a printer's device of Pieter de Keysere from Ghent, copied after that of Jodocus Badius of Paris. It gives a nice idea of the operations in a 16th-century printing house: to the left the printer pulls at the lever of his press, behind him his assistant is busy with the ink balls to ink the composition, and to the right the compositor is seated before his case with the composing stick in his hand.
Original
Nocturnus septimus psalmorum Dauiticorum. - Deventer: Jacob van Breda, [1515], titelblad
available in
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 226 E 58
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek