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The introduction of the printed book auction catalogue
Authors: Van Selm Bert 
Published: April 2008

AbstractBook historians have generally seen the introduction of the printed book auction catalogue as an important event in the history of the book trade. Catalogues were already being printed in the Dutch Republic in about 1600 and the present article discusses the factors that favoured this remarkably early development. In section 2 the author surveys present knowledge of book auctions from classical antiquity up to the year 1598. In particular, he discusses sales of books in the estates of deceased persons in the Low Countries during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to auctions in Leiden and The Hague in the last part of the sixteenth century. From the data assembled it emerges that the auctioning of books was certainly not first thought of in the Dutch Republic and that many auctions of property, including books, were held before 1599. In 1596 Louis (II) Elzevier was granted permission to hold book auctions in the Great Hall of the Binnenhof in The Hague, and in the hands of a bookseller it was possible for this form of trade to develop in the best possible way. In section 3 the author moves on to the earliest book sales with printed catalogues, namely the Marnix sale of 1599 and the Daniel van der Meulen sale of 4
Varia bibliographica
Authors: Biemans Jos A.A.M. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn 1911 the Dutch incunabulist Fr. Bonaventura Kruitwagen OFM had a violent argument in the columns of the Roman Catholic daily newspaper De Tijd with a fellow priest, Dr P. J. M. van Gils. The question at issue was whether non-Catholics were being preferred to Roman Catholics on various occasions. Kruitwagen's views gave offence to his superiors. Consequently he was transferred in 1912 to the remote village of Weert and he was forbidden to continue his studies on manuscripts, incunables, etc. This brief piece is about Kruitwagen's 'exile' to Weert which might have put an end to his bibliographical and philological studies.
The dedication miniatures in the Egmond Gospels: a Byzantinizing iconography?
Authors: Ciggaar Krijnie 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe Egmond Gospels, a much cherished manuscript in the Netherlands, have provoked a wealth of publications, descriptions, commentaries, catalogue entries etc. Most noted are the two dedication miniatures representing count Thierry of Holland (d. 988) and his wife Hildegard, offering the Evangeliary to the abbey of Egmond. The MS is now in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, cod. 76 F I. In the present article an attempt has been made to describe the colour programme of these two miniatures more accurately with the help of a stereomicroscope and the Munsell Color Atlas. Some suggestions have been made about the pigments which were probably used. A new date for the miniatures has been proposed, taking into consideration their historical context and their iconography. The most likely period is from 974 to 980. In this period double portraits are being introduced in the West, in the Ottonian world. An incentive for this new style was undoubtedly the arrival of the Byzantine princess Theophano who married Otto II in 972. In the Byzantine world imperial double portraits were very common. After the death of her father-in-law Otto I, in 973 and the official recognition of her co-rulership in 974, her role became more prominent, and may have stimulated the making of Western double portraits, if not as propaganda then at least to imitate Byzantine court life. Egbert, son of Thierry II and Hildegard, became chancellor of the Reich in 976 and archbishop of Trier in 977. He played an important role in Ottonian art as a patron and promoter, in which Byzantine influence is clearly discernible. Iconographical elements in the Egmond Gospels, such as the proskynesis, the disproportion between donors and 'authorities', the symmetry, the double portrait etc. betray influence from Byzantine iconography. Byzantine influence, indirectly via the Ottonians, was thus an active force in the execution of these miniatures, wherein Egbert is likely to have played an active role, even if the artist and the workshop are unknown.
Augustijn van Hasselt as a printer in Vianen and Wesel Part two
Authors: Blouw Paul Valkema 
Published: April 2008

AbstractAugustijn van Hasselt, whose name first appears in 1534 during the troubles in Münster, is mentioned in the Chronika of the Family of Love as Hendrik Niclaes's secretary and printer. Although not a single book seems to have been published with his imprint I have recently discussed what his part in Antwerp and Kampen was in the publication of a series of writings by the sectarian leader. We also know from the same source that Augustijn went to Vianen to run a printing shop for Plantin at the end of 1566, but that this press has soon to be moved to Wesel. What he published in that town, however, has hitherto been unknown. Assuming that he worked with type which came from Plantin it now seems possible to reconstruct his list of publications, despite the fact that no typographical difference exists between the products of two printers working with the same type, cast from the same matrices. Secondary factors must thus be advanced to show to whom a particular edition can be ascribed. An analysis along these lines discloses the fact that Augustijn was one of the most active publishers of Dutch Protestant books, sixteen or seventeen of which could be indicated. The fact that a book started in Vianen had to be completed in Wesel allows us to distinguish between what was printed in the two towns. After Augustijn had again worked for Hendrik Niclaes for a few years a final rift took place in 1573. He then disappears from view until 1592, when he still appears to be active as the owner of a small press.
The Realm of Venus Hadriani Barlandi [H. Beverland] De Prostibulis Veterum MS Leiden BPL 1994
Authors: De Smet Rudolf , Simoni Anna E. C. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractDuring the summer of 1678, H. Beverland, a native of Zeeland, compiled the manuscript De Prostibulis Veterum. The work deals with all kinds of erotic subjects in literature from classical to his own times and is subdivided into 14 capita. Beverland rewrote the second chapter to form an autonomous booklet entitled Peccatum Originale, the first edition of which (1678) was put on sale anonymously. The second edition appeared with the author's name given in full on the title-page and shortly afterwards Beverland was arrested. The court demanded delivery of the manuscript treatise De Prostibulis Veterum and sentenced the author to exile. Beverland accepted the demand, but not until he had made a copy of it which he later first completed in England and then destroyed. The original passed via the heirs of Professor Spanheim to the University Library at Leiden where it still is at shelf-mark BPL 1994.
The seventeenth-century Antwerp book collector Peeter Oris: new discoveries and new questions
Authors: Biemans Jos A.A.M. , Simoni Translation Anna E. C. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe Antwerp art dealer Peeter Oris (c. 1582-c. 1647) owned at least eight medieval manuscripts and nine or ten printed books, including five, possibly seven incunabula. They were probably all Dutch books-with perhaps one exception. The fact that these manuscripts and printed books come from Oris's collection is almost always to be seen in ownership and other annotations in his own hand. One
A Haarlem press in Sedan and Emden (1561-9) Part two: Sedan and Emden
Authors: Valkema Blouw Paul 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn 1561, after a deadlock of many years, a new printing-office was set up in Holland by Jan van Zuren and three others, including the author Dirck Coornhert. After one year of publishing the press concluded most of its activities, and-according to documentary information recently found- the company was dissolved. Jan van Zuren became the sole owner of the firm, which over the next three years only issued a few books on commission. The production then ended completely. What became of the typographical material of the printing-shop has always been a mystery. As a result of bibliographical analysis it has now become clear that all the typefaces, initials and ornaments (including the devices)-in fact the whole inventory-were removed to the French town of Sedan. With the permission of the Duke of Bouillon a press was founded, which issued a number of exclusively Protestant works, most of them in Dutch, together with a few political publications in French emanating from the Calvinist leaders of the Resistance to Spanish rule. In 1565 the first factor to run the printing-shop, Goossen Goebens, made his name known in the imprint of a panegyric on the foundation of the press. The following year his place was taken by Lenaert der Kinderen, who broke his contract with Plantin for this new post. In 1567 the press appears to have been active in another town, again in another country. At some time during this year the printing-shop was moved to Emden in East Frisia, where, in 1569, the typographical material is to be found in a book published by the emigrant Jean Malet. Meanwhile six publications, including five Protestant books, were issued without any imprint. Circumstantial evidence justifies the conclusion that one or both of Dirck Coornhert's brothers then were running the printing-office, which they probably already owned in the Sedan period.
Bernardus Sellius Noviomagus (c.1551-93), proof-reader and poet
Authors: Heesakkers Chris L. , Hamilton Alastair 
Published: April 2008

AbstractEmblemata Sacra by Bernard Sellius Noviomagus, known above all in the 1613 edition published by Michiel Colin in Amsterdam, has long puzzled bibliographers. This article establishes Sellius's identity, describes his brief life and examines his spirituality. It reconstructs the publishing history of his single work through its three editions (Raphelengius 1593 and Colin 1613 and 1617) and assesses his achievements as a poet. The text of Emblemata Sacra, Sellius's Latin heading and epigrams accompanying Pieter van der Borcht's illustrations of scenes from the Bible, is reproduced in the Appendix with notes and an English translation.
The 'Vereeniging Joan Blaeu' 26 May 1916-11 March 1938
Authors: Simoni Anna E. C. , Van Delft Marieke 
Published: April 2008

AbstractOn 26 May 1918 a group of printers and publishers founded the Joan Blaeu Society. Its aim was 'the promotion of printing and book illustration in the Netherlands'. The committee was formed, among others, by men like S.H. de Roos and J.F. van Royen. The most productive years were the early ones: three books were published, a book exhibition was organised and three annual reports appeared. Gradually activity declined. There were no more annual reports and only one further booklet came out (1929). In March 1938 the Joan Blaeu Society was dissolved. At the same time a new society was founded: the Dutch Fine Printing Society, which was to be its successor of sorts.
Early protestant publications in Antwerp, 1526-30
Authors: Blouw Paul Valkema 
Published: April 2008

AbstractAt 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 clandestine editions but Marten de Keyser (Lempereur) in Antwerp. He collaborated in the production of books in Dutch with the well-known printer-publisher Adriaen van Berghen and, in some publications in English, with his colleague Joannes Grapheus. The part played by De Keyser in the first years of the English reformation thus appears to have been still more important than has hitherto been admitted, while nothing remains of the eminent position which had been accorded to Hoochstraten.
The international career of an Emden printer (Goossen Goebens 1560-76)
Authors: Valkema Blouw Paul 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe history of Goossen Goebens has to be entirely reconstructed from what is shown by his printed work together with the few facts which emerge from Plantin's account books. It thus appears that he began his career in 1561 as business manager of the recently founded literary press of Jan van Zuren in Haarlem. He subsequently became factor of the same firm when it entered a second phase in 1565 as a Protestant publishing house in Sedan, probably belonging to two of the Coornhert brothers. This connection lasted for a year, whereupon Goebens returned to Antwerp and spent a few months working for Plantin. It is possible that he then went to Vianen as a collaborator of Augustijn van Hasselt. When the town was occupied in May 1567, however, he did not seek refuge with Augustijn in Wesel but departed for Emden where, in the meantime, the Coornherts had transferred their press. That was where he worked until he managed to establish a printing press of his own in 1570. This continued its production until 1579, the year in which Goebens probably died. Some twenty-eight of Goebens's publications can now be identified, most of which appeared without an imprint. These include anonymous political pamphlets as well as works by Johan Fruytiers and the extensive Protocol of the conference with the Anabaptists in Emden in 1578.
The lost first editions of Gabriel Meurier's Colloques ou nouvelle invention de propos familiers, printed by Plantin, 1556-7
Authors: Shaw David J. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractEarly in his career in Antwerp, Plantin printed a group of textbooks for the school-master Gabriel Meurier. Archival evidence from Plantin's business ledgers, from Meurier's privileges for sale of these books, and from a surviving printed fragment show that at least two previously unsuspected editions of one of these texts must have been printed. A summary of Meurier's career is given together with an analysis of the publication history of the texts covered by his privilege which were printed in Plantin's workshop.
Aufbau Und Gliederung Von Augustins Schrift De Vera Religione
Authors: Desch Waltraut 
Published: April 2008

AbstractEs hat sich ergeben, daß die Schrift De vera religione sehr kunstvoll gebaut ist. Sie besteht aus einem zweiteiligen Prooemium, zwei Hauptteilen und einem Schlußprotreptikos. Der Unterschied zwischen beiden Hauptteilen läßt sich schwer in Worte fassen: weder enthält der eine Hauptteil nur christliches, der andere nur neuplatonisches Gedankengut, sondern Christliches und Neuplatonisches sind im ganzen Werk eine untrennbare Verbindung eingegangen. Noch behandelt der eine Hauptteil die Heilsgeschichte (den Glaubensstoff), während der andere sich um die Erkenntnis der Dreieinigkeit bemüht. Sondern beide Hauptteile behandeln dasselbe auf verschiedenem Niveau. Am ehesten könnte man den ersten Hauptteil als dogmatischantimanichäisch, den zweiten als philosophisch-spekulativ bezeichnen. Dieser Unterschied und formale Kriterien sprechen dafür, trotz aller Gemeinsamkeiten eine Trennung in zwei Hauptteile vorzunehmen. Ringkompositionen spielen im Aufbau der Schrift eine große Rolle: der erste Teil des Prooemiums umschließt mit dem 2. Hauptteil in einer Ringkomposition den 2. Teil des Prooemiums mit dem 1. Hauptteil. Beide Teile des Prooemiums und beide Hauptteile weisen wieder jeweils eine Ringkomposition auf. Den Abschluß bildet der deutlich abgegrenzte Schlußprotreptikos.
Das Nachtmythologem in der polynesischen Religion und seine Auswirkungen auf protestantische Missionstätigkeit
Authors: Bausch Christa 
Published: April 2008

AbstractDie zentrale Stellung des Po-Konzepts in der polynesischen Religion steht somit fest. Für die Polynesier war Po eine geistige Realität, etwas überaus Heiliges. Es war eine heilige Zeit am Urbeginn der Welt. Es war ewig und allgegenwärtig, ein erhabenes Kontinuum, das in der Nacht und im Kult weiter bestand. Po und Ao bildeten das Ordnungsprinzip der Welt; "Po gehörte den Göttern, Ao den Menschen"48. Mit Konsequenz und logischer Klarheit konstituierten Po und Ao die Ordnung aller Lebensphänomene. Sie erklärten den Ursprung alles auf Erden Bestehenden und gaben allen Wesen, Dingen und Institutionen Sinn und Bedeutung. Sie bildeten ein holistisches Prinzip, das alle Lebensbereiche von Religion bis Sex umfaßte und durchdrang und Urzeit und Gegenwart, Zeit und Raum, Götter und Menschen, das Sakrale und das Profane, Fürsten und Volk, Lebende und Tote, Geburt und Tod in einem großartigen geistig-religiösen System zusammenschloß.
A "Terrible Beauty", the Irish Supreme Court, and Dying
Authors: Feenan Dermot 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe approval by Ireland's highest court, the Supreme Court, by a majority, of withdrawal of artificial tube-feeding and hydration from a woman who had been in a near-persistent vegetative state, but with minimal cognitive capacity, for over 23 years, on the basis that to do so was in her best interests and in accord with her constitutional rights to life, bodily integrity, privacy, and self-determination, marks a watershed in a country traditionally dominated by Roman Catholic doctrine, including the sanctity of life, and the authority of a (vitalist) medical profession. Although the decision might be regarded as compassionate, it is problematic in several respects. It dangerously extends the boundaries of withdrawal of artificial treatment from those with severe brain damage; uses inappropriate legal reasoning in the form of "best interests" of the individual; fails to examine sufficiently the criminal law implications of such action; and confuses and avoids several significant issues. In these respects, the decision represents, in the words of Irish poet W.B. Yeats, the birth of a "terrible beauty".
The "Right to Die": A Case Study in American Lawmaking*
Authors: Meisel Alan 
Published: April 2008

AbstractIn the 20 years that have passed since the Karen Quinlan case exposed a simmering clinical issue to the light of day — more precisely, to the press and to judicial process — a consensus has developed in American law about how end-of-life decisionmaking should occur. To be sure, there are dissenting voices from this consensus, but they are often (though not always) about minor issues. By illustrating how this consensus has evolved, this paper explores how law is made in the American legal system and the roles that different legal and extra-legal institutions play in lawmaking.
Confession-Building, Long-Distance Networks, and the Organization of Jesuit Science
Authors: Harris Steven J. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe ability of the Society of Jesus to engage in a broad and enduring tradition of scientific activity is here addressed in terms of its programmatic commitment to the consolidation and extension of the Catholic confession (i.e., to a multi-pronged program of confession-building) and its mastery of the administrative apparatus necessary to operate long-distance networks. The Society's early move into two major apostolates, one in education and the other in the overseas missions, brought Jesuits into regular contact with the educated elites of Europe and at the same time placed the Society's missionaries in remote parts of the natural world. The modes of organization of travel and communication required by the Society's long-distance networks (i.e., the training and deployment of reliable agents willing to work under direction in remote locations and capable of providing trustworthy reports and observations to their superiors through regular exchange of correspondence) not only facilitated scientific communication and collaboration within the order, it also provided Jesuits with the resources they needed to engage successfully in 'ministries among the learned'. Evidence of a sustained attempt by Jesuit authors to assume the role of Kulturträger is found in the several genres of scientific publications that dominate the Society's scientific corpus. Thus the Society's early recognition of the "apostolic value" of scientific publications in recruiting friends and allies among Europe's intellectual elites, I argue, allowed a robust interest in natural knowledge to emerge as a legitimate part of the Jesuit vocation.
Arabic Cosmology
Authors: Tzvi Langermann Y. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractRepresentations of the heavens in various levels of detail can be found in a number of branches of Arabic literature. One particular genre, the hay'a texts, has as its purpose a full though non-mathematical discussion of the arrangement of the celestial orbs; hay'a writers are particularly sensitive to the philosophical requirements which all systems must meet. The pivotal work in this genre, On the Configuration, was written by Ibn al-Haytham. Later writers continued to produce works in the spirit of On the Configuration. In the east, al-Tusi and his followers developed new models; in the west, a group of thinkers tried to rediscover the models which, so they thought, were the ones endorsed by Aristotle himself.
Alchemy Vs. Chemistry: the Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake1
Authors: Newman William R. , Principe Lawrence M. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe parallel usage of the two terms "alchemy" and "chemistry" by seventeenth-century writers has engendered considerable confusion among historians of science. Many historians have succumbed to the temptation of assuming that the early modern term "chemistry" referred to something like the modern discipline, while supposing that "alchemy" pertained to a different set of practices and beliefs, predominantly the art of transmuting base metals into gold. This paper provides the first exhaustive analysis of the two terms and their interlinguistic cognates in the seventeenth century. It demonstrates that the intentional partition of the two terms with the restriction of alchemy to the the sense of metallic transmutation was not widely accepted until the end of the seventeenth century, if even then. The major figure in the restriction of meaning, Nicolas Lemery, built on a spurious interpretation of the Arabic definite article al, which he inherited from earlier sources in the chemical textbook tradition. In order to curtail the tradition of anachronism and distortion engendered by the selective use of the terms "alchemy" and "chemistry" by historians, the authors conclude by suggesting a return to seventeenth-century terminology for discussing the different aspects of the early modern discipline "chymistry."
Holy Writ, Mythology, and the Foundations of Francis Bacon's Principle of the Constancy of Matter
Authors: Alejandra Manzo Silvia 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe exact nature of the relation between science and Scripture in the thought of Francis Bacon is a well-studied but controversial field. In this paper, it is shown that Bacon, though convinced that there exists no enmity between the book of God's wisdom (Holy Writ) and the book of God's power (nature), usually tries to separate knowledge acquired by reason (philosophy) from knowledge acquired by faith (divinity). In his exposition of the principle of the conservation of matter, however, Bacon seems to find himself constrained to invoke Scriptural truths in a manner that he usually disapproves of. In order to establish this principle, which is so essential to his overall scientific program, he appeals both to the Bible and Greek mythology in a way that points to certain conceptual tensions within his natural philosophy.