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- Title
Variarum Scripturarum Exempla, Willem Silvius' Writing-Book Discovered.
- Authors
Vandommele, Jeroen J. M.
- Abstract
This article attributes a manuscript in the collection of the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, to Willem Silvius (c. 1520–1580), an Antwerp printer and a former writing master. The manuscript carries the title Variarum Scripturarum Exempla and contains 44 writing samples in eight different languages. It probably served as Silvius' personal writing-book, which he used to attract customers when he was working as a writing master in Louvain. In 1562 he intended to publish the manuscript as the first printed exemplar-book in the Low Countries which contained writing models for different languages and settings. Although this publication never materialised, Silvius' writing-book is a testimonial for the life and the achievements of one of most significant printers of sixteenth century Antwerp.
- Subjects
ANTWERP (Belgium); MANUSCRIPT collections; SIXTEENTH century; ACHIEVEMENT; MANUSCRIPTS; NATIONAL libraries
- Publication
Quaerendo, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 4, p307
- ISSN
0014-9527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15700690-12341498