Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis - Volume 30, Issue 2023, 2023

Abstract This article, by analysing the first medical journal published in the Dutch Republic and its discussion of tea, will consider the role of print and the importance of intermedia adaptation and editorial intervention in the early modern circulation of Chinese medical knowledge in Europe. To that end, I will analyse Steven Blankaart’s Collectanea medico-physica (1680-1688) and address three key questions in the historiograph Read More

Abstract This essay explores the materiality of Dutch blue paper (1650-1750), describing the methodology developed at the Moulin du Verger papermill (France). Starting from the visual examination of blue paper objects housed in the Rijksmuseum and the study of written sources, the group of researchers based their experiments at this 16th-century mill, equipped with traditional papermaking stampers, a Hollander cyl Read More

Abstract Few foreigners had a better standing in the Dutch Golden Age than the Englishman Sir William Temple (1628-1699). At the beginning of an edition of Temple’s Memoirs, the printer Adriaen Moetjens described him as ‘one of the great men of this century’. This reputation was, in part, a result of the pivotal role that Temple had played in the Republic’s foreign affairs. But the Englishman also owed his fame within the Unite Read More

Abstract Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century devotional prints contain much information about early modern spirituality and life in general, as well as art-historical and social-economic information. To enable researchers to access this information, the creation of online databases for large collections is essential. In 2023 the database of one of the most important collections in the Low Countries, the Ruusbroec Institute devo Read More