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Towards a Digital Atlas of initial letters and typographic ornaments in the Netherlands

Towards a Digital Atlas of initial letters and typographic ornaments in the Netherlands PAUL DIJSTELBERGE Towards a Digital Atlas of initial letters and typographic ornaments in the Netherlands INTRODUCTION As long as analytical bibliography has been in existence, bibliographers have occupied themselves with typographic elements: letters, initials and ornaments. As a result, a substantial number of articles and monographs on typographic material have appeared over the years. Identification of the printers of anony- mously published printed matter has always been the researchers' main objective. This was true for the eighteenth-century scholar who set out with a scrapbook in which cut out initials had been pasted in order to identify incunables, as well as for well-known nineteenth-century Elseviriographers like Rahir. During the past decade, a number of equally important and interesting articles have been published, particularly by Mr Paul Valkcma Blouw, in which initials and typographic ornaments claim a key role in the cultural historical setting. The arrival of the computer has also drastically changed this area of research. As early as 1987, a congress was organized in Liege during which the possibil- ities of a database of typographic material were discussed at length. The inter- national database that was planned never materialized: at that time the technical possibilities for the construction http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Towards a Digital Atlas of initial letters and typographic ornaments in the Netherlands

Quaerendo , Volume 28 (3): 215 – Jan 1, 1998

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Brill
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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0014-9527
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1570-0690
DOI
10.1163/157006998X00203
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Abstract

PAUL DIJSTELBERGE Towards a Digital Atlas of initial letters and typographic ornaments in the Netherlands INTRODUCTION As long as analytical bibliography has been in existence, bibliographers have occupied themselves with typographic elements: letters, initials and ornaments. As a result, a substantial number of articles and monographs on typographic material have appeared over the years. Identification of the printers of anony- mously published printed matter has always been the researchers' main objective. This was true for the eighteenth-century scholar who set out with a scrapbook in which cut out initials had been pasted in order to identify incunables, as well as for well-known nineteenth-century Elseviriographers like Rahir. During the past decade, a number of equally important and interesting articles have been published, particularly by Mr Paul Valkcma Blouw, in which initials and typographic ornaments claim a key role in the cultural historical setting. The arrival of the computer has also drastically changed this area of research. As early as 1987, a congress was organized in Liege during which the possibil- ities of a database of typographic material were discussed at length. The inter- national database that was planned never materialized: at that time the technical possibilities for the construction

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Published: Jan 1, 1998

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