The biography of a book: the Turku copy of the 1613 Mercator-Hondius Atlas
Van Impe, Steven; Varila, Mari-Liisa (2016)
Van Impe, Steven
Varila, Mari-Liisa
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Steven Van Impe, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
Steven Van Impe is a Master in History (Ghent University) and holds a postgraduate degree in Library and Information Science (Antwerp University). He worked as a bibliographer on the Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) project before becoming curator of old books and manuscripts at the Hendrik Conscience Library in 2006. In 2015 he curated the exhibition The Seven Seas on early modern maritime cartography. In his spare time he is working on a PhD on newspapers in Antwerp in the eighteenth century.
Mari-Liisa Varila, University of Turku
Mari-Liisa Varila (MA, English) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of English, University of Turku. In her dissertation she examines a group of three English manuscripts containing scientific texts, with a special focus on the interaction between manuscript and print culture in early sixteenth-century England. Her research interests include manuscript studies, book history, English historical linguistics and textual scholarship.
Steven Van Impe is a Master in History (Ghent University) and holds a postgraduate degree in Library and Information Science (Antwerp University). He worked as a bibliographer on the Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) project before becoming curator of old books and manuscripts at the Hendrik Conscience Library in 2006. In 2015 he curated the exhibition The Seven Seas on early modern maritime cartography. In his spare time he is working on a PhD on newspapers in Antwerp in the eighteenth century.
Mari-Liisa Varila, University of Turku
Mari-Liisa Varila (MA, English) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of English, University of Turku. In her dissertation she examines a group of three English manuscripts containing scientific texts, with a special focus on the interaction between manuscript and print culture in early sixteenth-century England. Her research interests include manuscript studies, book history, English historical linguistics and textual scholarship.
Tiivistelmä
In this article we look at the printing and publishing history of the 1613 edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Our main focus is on the editions published by the Hondius family in the early seventeenth century. We take a closer look at the 1613 Latin edition, focusing on one specific, previously unrecorded copy currently held by the Donner Institute in Turku. We relate our findings to the more general issues concerning the production, context and history of the atlas.