Handmoulds  
               
 
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Illustrations
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Photographs
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Inventories
a. Location
b. Description

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Terminology
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References
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November meeting
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Making inventories

Two kinds:
a. Location of the handmoulds
b. Describing individual moulds.

a. Location of the handmoulds.

Below is an incomplete list of the location of handmoulds:

1. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp.

[278 moulds (F. de Nave, 2002): consisting of 62 moulds from the collection of 1876 (Voet, 1972), 4 half-moulds (Parker, 1974), and 200 old moulds from the Brussels type-founding firm of Van der Borght. See also: Parker, Melis, Vervliet, 1960]

2. Museum Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem.

[131 moulds?]

3. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

[Figure 2 in Carter's 'A view ...'; Figure 10 in Moxon's 1962 republication shows 2 moulds; Carter also mentions: "Two odd halves of a French mould". (Carter in Moxon, Notes page 379)]

4. St Bride Printing Library, London.

5. Nordiska Museet, Stockholm.

6. Museo Bodoniano, Biblioteca Palatina, Parma.

[Illustrated in: De Lama, Giuseppe (1816) 'Vita del Cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni']

7. Deutsche Museum München.

[(number: 33504). 1911 gift from Plantin-Moretus Museum. Build between 1614 and 1660. (Wilkes (1990), page 78). Page 162, Figures 10, 11 in 'Gutenberg Aventur und Kunst (2000)]

8. Musée de l'impremerie de Lyon, Lyon.

[3 moulds: one 19th century (Société des Ets, A. Foucher, bd Jourdan, Paris), a second (more rustic) of uncertain date, and a third which was made for us by Stan Nelson (2003).]

9. Bibliotheca Medicea, Florence.

10. Stamperia Vaticana, Rome.

11. Chetham's Library

Chetham's Library Manchester. (A gift of Dr Roy Millington of Sheffield University, author of an history of the firm of Stephenson Blake & Company a typefounder and printers' equipment supplier in Britain and the Commonwealth.)

12. Archives of N. Tetterode (2 moulds)

13. Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.

14. University library, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.

15. Private collections

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