Papers by paul dijstelberge
Quaerendo, 1992
The names Niclaes van Oldenborch and Magnus vanden Merberghe van O(e)sterhout have long presented... more The names Niclaes van Oldenborch and Magnus vanden Merberghe van O(e)sterhout have long presented historians of the Dutch book with a problem. They appear as imprints in two series of, mostly theological, publications in the vernacular, published respectively in the third and fourth decade of the sixteenth century and in the 1550s. Owing to the attributions of Dr Kronenberg, the distinguished expert in the field, the Van Oldenborch production swelled into a list of almost forty publications, a substantial part of the Protestant works to have been issued in the period. She was convinced of the man's historicity and continued to insist on it even after serious doubts had arisen about the accuracy of the principal piece of information on which she based her views. Further research now proves that, as had already been suggested earlier, Van Oldenborch was indeed a pseudonym, used by more than one printer in Antwerp and presumably also in Kampen. A total of seven, if not of eight, pu...
Quaerendo, 1993
Partly intended as a summary of recent research on Plantin's activities, this article provide... more Partly intended as a summary of recent research on Plantin's activities, this article provides a new interpretation of certain aspects of his career: the circumstances in which the Officina came into existence; the collaboration between Plantin and Hendrik Niclaes as partners in a printing shop in Kampen which besides various publications by the prophet, produced two editions of the Bible; and the course of events in the transfer of Plantin's
Quaerendo, 1994
Whoever tackles the activities of Antwerp printers in the sixteenth century must beware of the us... more Whoever tackles the activities of Antwerp printers in the sixteenth century must beware of the use of spurious imprints. In order to distract the authorities' attention and to set them on the wrong track a fictitious place of publication might be given on the title-page or in the colophon. This method was particularly popular in the r53os and i54os; at a later date a preference was shown for pseudonyms without any mention of a town or for complete
Quaerendo, 1994
This article follows on from my earlier piece in this journal, 'The Van Oldenborch and Vanden... more This article follows on from my earlier piece in this journal, 'The Van Oldenborch and Vanden Merberghe pseudonyms'. With the demonstration that these were not true people but pseudonyms - the first was even used by various printers - the picture of the history of the Dutch Protestant book has been substantially altered. It was not these 'phantoms' who were the most important publishers in this domain, but Adriaen van Berghen, Matthaeus Crom, and the latter's brother-in-law Steven Mierdmans, while, after 1550, the hitherto unknown Frans Fraet occupied the most prominent position. About half the Dutch-language books which Dr Kronenberg included in her systematic index under the heading Luther: Voor en tegen de Hervorming, appear to date from after 1540 and thus fall actually outside the chronological limits of the Nederlandsche Bibliographie van 1500 tot 1540. We also see that the existing view according to which the role of Antwerp was exhausted after 1540 must b...
Quaerendo, 1996
At the beginning of her life-long commitment to Dutch post-incunables Miss Kronenberg concentrate... more At the beginning of her life-long commitment to Dutch post-incunables Miss Kronenberg concentrated on two hitherto unsolved pseudonyms: Adam Anonymus in Basel, the publisher of certain important heterodox works in Dutch, and Hans Luft at Marlborow, the printer of various books for the first Protestant authors in England, including Tyndale. In the work that appeared under these pseudonyms she encountered a number of woodcut initials which originated from the Officina Corveriana in the town of Zwolle in the Northern Netherlands. She thus developed an ingenious theory according to which the true printer was Johannes Hoochstraten, a young man from Antwerp whose father was one of the most eminent publishers in the city. This verdict was generally accepted and, to this day, Miss Kronenberg's analysis is cited without its accuracy ever having been called in doubt. Yet renewed investigation shows that her attributions are unacceptable. It was not Johannes Hoochstraten who printed these ...
Quaerendo, 1988
In an earlier number of this journal I described a Dutch New Testament of 1567, issued without an... more In an earlier number of this journal I described a Dutch New Testament of 1567, issued without an imprint, which consists of two adjoining parts printed in completely different typefaces. The remarkable typographical composition of the book was my point of departure for reconstructing the stock of books published by the printer Augustijn van Hasselt when he acted as Christopher Plantin's factor first in Vianen and then in Wesel. That analysis is now confirmed by the discovery of a Psalmbook from the same year composed in a similar manner. Plantin's secret enterprise thus acquires a still wider range and we can see even more clearly how eager he was to occupy a position in the profitable market of Bible editions in the vernacular.
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2011
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication De beer is los! : Ursicula: een database van typ... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication De beer is los! : Ursicula: een database van typografisch... (2007) Open access. Pagina-navigatie: Main. Title, De beer is los! : Ursicula: een database van typografisch materiaal ...
Urban History, 1999
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