Treasures of the Plantin-Moretus Museum exhibit
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1965
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 314, Box 11, Folder: 5
An old type mold of type setting, punches and matrices used for Robert Cranjon's "Ascendonica Romaine," 1569, with type newly cast from the matrice and proof. In the exhibition "Treasures from the Plantin-Moretus Museum," of early printing materials from Antwerp, Belgium, sponsored by the Belgian Embassy. The exhibit was circulated to museums and libraries by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service during the summer of 1965.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 314, Box 11, Folder: 5
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1965
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MNH1231A
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print