This overview to the unique “Seghers Collection”
will give an idea of the complexity and depth of a
collection that gathers the classics of ecclesiastical
and philological training and Renaissance and
Early Modern books ...
This lecture gives a “guided tour” of a selection of mini-collections within Special Collections: history of medicine, Bibles, discovery of the Americas and Amer-Indian religions, and Aldine editions of modern dictionaries. ...
Christopher Plantin (1520-1589) could be presented as the epitome of Renaissance humanist printers. Born in France, exiled in the Low Countries and settled in Antwerp, he lived at the crossroads of religions and national ...