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Briefer mention

Briefer mention Briefer mention Martin Tielke, Das Rätsel des Emder Buchdrucks (1554-1602). Ausstellung von 10.5 bis 24.5 in der Landschaftsbibliothek Aurich. Aurich, Verlag der Ostfriesischen Landschaft, 1986, 22 x 15 cm, ii+127 pp., illus. ISBN 3-925365-09-5, DM 8 [= Einzelschriften 21]. Few readers wil have been able to visit the exhibition about printing in Emden in the sixteenth century, held in the Landesbibliothek in Aurich, north-west Ger- many, but a study of Tielke's book can certainly make good the deficiency. It con- tains a sensible introduction in which the author gives an adequate account of all the theories about such 'Emder' (?) printers as Niclaes van Oldenborch and, having regard to the present state of research into the subject, refrains from giving his own final views. Tielke rightly stresses the extremely important role played by Emden in the Reformation in the Netherlands, particularly in the 1560s, when in the Low Countries the necessary books could only be printed at the risk of one's life, after the town had fulfilled the same kind of function for England in 1550. The better-known printers in Emden included Steven Mierdman, Jan Gheilliaert, Gilles van der Erven (Ctematius), Nicolaes Biestkens and Lenaert der Kinderen (whom http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Briefer mention

Quaerendo , Volume 17 (3-4): 309 – Jan 1, 1987
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Brill
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© 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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10.1163/157006987X00115
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Briefer mention Martin Tielke, Das Rätsel des Emder Buchdrucks (1554-1602). Ausstellung von 10.5 bis 24.5 in der Landschaftsbibliothek Aurich. Aurich, Verlag der Ostfriesischen Landschaft, 1986, 22 x 15 cm, ii+127 pp., illus. ISBN 3-925365-09-5, DM 8 [= Einzelschriften 21]. Few readers wil have been able to visit the exhibition about printing in Emden in the sixteenth century, held in the Landesbibliothek in Aurich, north-west Ger- many, but a study of Tielke's book can certainly make good the deficiency. It con- tains a sensible introduction in which the author gives an adequate account of all the theories about such 'Emder' (?) printers as Niclaes van Oldenborch and, having regard to the present state of research into the subject, refrains from giving his own final views. Tielke rightly stresses the extremely important role played by Emden in the Reformation in the Netherlands, particularly in the 1560s, when in the Low Countries the necessary books could only be printed at the risk of one's life, after the town had fulfilled the same kind of function for England in 1550. The better-known printers in Emden included Steven Mierdman, Jan Gheilliaert, Gilles van der Erven (Ctematius), Nicolaes Biestkens and Lenaert der Kinderen (whom

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Published: Jan 1, 1987

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