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Title
Hulde aan den uitvinder de boekdrukkunst Laurens Jansz. Koster
Creator
Gebroeders J. & H. Van Langenhuysen
Summary
[Printed in red, blue, green, tan, black. Depicts a typographic illustration of an archway., Broadside printed annually on the Dutch printers festival day, called Koppermaandag, the Monday following the feast of the Epiphany. These broadsides were presented to friends and customers, having been set and printed by the shop apprentices. The poems generally are in praise and honor of Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370, Haarlem – c. 1440), whom the Dutch considered the inventor of printing with moveable types.]
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