Christopher Plantin, Polyglot Printer of Antwerp

25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult

Automatic translation by
Systran

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Christopher Plantin's successful printing and publishing business, founded in Antwerp in the 1560s, brought together many scholars, linguists and theologians and produced a wide range of scholarly books including the highly complex Polyglot (or `many language version') Bible. We tour the Plantin Moretus Museum and find that, in the sensitive political and religious climate of Antwerp at the time, printing was not only lucrative and full of exciting technical innovations, but sometimes dangerous as well.

Original copper plate for anatomical illustration

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Director
Nick Levinson

Presenters
Rosemary O'Day
Noel Coley

Open University/BBC

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