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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
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998
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