Chris(tian) Coppens
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Emeritus
Page 1. CHRISTIAN COPPENS ... Peter's at Louvain', dedicated his Dutch translation of Guilielmus Drexelius, Schoone consideratien van de eeuwicheydt [Fair thoughts on eternity], to 'Lady Barbe Marie Boonen, wife of Master... more
Page 1. CHRISTIAN COPPENS ... Peter's at Louvain', dedicated his Dutch translation of Guilielmus Drexelius, Schoone consideratien van de eeuwicheydt [Fair thoughts on eternity], to 'Lady Barbe Marie Boonen, wife of Master Pieter Pecquius' and the Bishop's sister. ...
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The post-mortem inventory of Duke Charles (1560-1612) was used for the printed auction catalogue in 1614
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the article deals with the publishers and booksellers catalogues in Italy from the fifteenth century till 1600
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Based on a post mortem inventary that is published and on some surviving copies, there is a reconstruction of the library of a canon, a cleric with some means; the bindings of the surviving books are analysed and illustrated; his library... more
Based on a post mortem inventary that is published and on some surviving copies, there is a reconstruction of the library of a canon, a cleric with some means; the bindings of the surviving books are analysed and illustrated; his library is compared with the library of an Antwerp canon of the same time, based on a post mortem inventory and an auction catalogue, with an analysis of the buyers
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Based on an inventory the private library of an Antwerp city official is published and analysed; there is only one book known of his library, his album amicorum; the phenomenon of the album amicorum is analysed as well; he studied in... more
Based on an inventory the private library of an Antwerp city official is published and analysed; there is only one book known of his library, his album amicorum; the phenomenon of the album amicorum is analysed as well; he studied in Louvain with the nephews of Cardinal Granvelle
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the article tries to find out what the underlying 'mechanism' was of collecting/bringing together books in the sixteenth century
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The review reports about the book and adds some corrections and remarks
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the article deals with the incunabula of the old library of the abbey of Parc, founded in the 13th c. The old library was sold in 1829. There is dealt with the foundation, the auction, the auction catalogue, the prices fetched, the... more
the article deals with the incunabula of the old library of the abbey of Parc, founded in the 13th c. The old library was sold in 1829. There is dealt with the foundation, the auction, the auction catalogue, the prices fetched, the looting by the French, the incunabula itself with the pen-flourished initials illustrated and a list of surviving incunabula, mainly in Paris libraries
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the article tries to find what the tag 'et amicorum'in provenance entries in printed books, mainly but not only from the sixteenth century really means
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the article tries to understand what the real function of an album is and how it can serve in provenance research
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the review reports about the book and adds some remarks and corrections
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Catalogue of a private library of books on the history of frncing
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Based on archival documents, mainly library inventories and an auction catalogue, the book reconstructs the libraries of these three English catholic refugees in the Southern Netherlands (now to days Belgium)