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1976
Journal article
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and the Werkmaniana in the British Library
THE city of Groningen, capital of the Dutch province of the same name, lies in the far north-east corner of the country, separated from its main cultural centres by the IJsselmeer and being reached, before the advent of air travel, only by a long journey by road or rail. Before...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1975
Journal article
Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam
THE use of printers' and publishers' devices is as old as the printed book. Their origin goes back even further to heraldry and medieval shop signs. Few collections of devices used in the Netherlands have been published; there is one by Nielson on those in Latin which, though quite useful...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1980
Journal article
Department of Printed Books: Halthasar Bekker: some recent additions
In the 1978 Spring issue of this journal Dr. Hans Henning recalled that executions for witchcraft continued in Germany and Switzerland until 1782. If they came to an end then, and well before that date in England and some other countries, this is due in no small measure to Balthasar...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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2002
Book chapter
Dutch printing in London. I. A survey. II. The strange case of Double-Dutch double vision: bilingual pamphlets of 1615
Printing in Dutch arose in London following the persecution of Protestants in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Britain in general and London in particular, then as now, became a place of refuge for the exiles. These refugees then clung together for mutual support, they created their own...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1985
Journal article
Terra incognita: the Beudeker Collection in the map library of the British Library
The name 'Beudeker Collection' or 'Beudeker Atlas' commemorates the eighteenth century Dutchman who compiled these twenty-four large folio volumes, bound ingold-tooled white vellum, placed at Maps C.9.d.1-11, e.1-13. Each volume contains an average of a hundred to a hundred and fifty leaves, on to and between which large single or...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1984
Journal article
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981.Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1984
Journal article
The book of Franciscan saints by Cornelius Thielmans, 1610: a question of title
On 31 August 1974 the British Library received as part of the Van Stuwe donation the gift of a book in small quarto entitled Cort Verhael van het Leven der Heijlighen van S[.] Franciscus Oirden Met Haer Levende Figuren Wt Diuersche schyvers [sic] genomen Deur Den E. P. Broeder Cornelius...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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1982
Journal article
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Dutch acquisitions
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Dutch acquisitions.Simoni, Anna E. C.