1740

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Source:

Title: Medal
Author: -
Publisher: -
Printer: -
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Gerhard Manshoorn
Location: 1740
Year: Haarlem
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [Scan 3].

Comments:

William Blades (1869) describes the reverse of this coin as ‘A printing-press, on the head of which is a shield bearing the Arms of the city of Haarlem, and upon the “winter” or cross piece, through which the screw works, a shield bearing a dove, the device of Coster. Against the press leans an open volume, upon which appears: SPE SAL CUL- VATI HUMA ONIS. (Speculum humani salvationis) the title of one of the earliest books attributed by Dutch Bibliographers to the press of Coster. The legend is: INV. 1428. PERVULG. 1440. III JUB. 1740. In the Exergue: TYPOGRAPHIA HARLEMI G.M.’ Number: 2H (illustration page 200, description page 28).

Christian Friedrich Gessner (1740) shows an illustration in volume 4, Table 1, number II. A description can be found in volume 3, page 480-481.

Gerrit Marshoorn, geboren in 1703, overleden in 1752, was goudsmid en stempelsnijder te Haarlem. [see note on page 41.]

The Dutch Rijksmuseum has an etching/gravure by Jan Wandelaar, dated 1740. It is not clear which book contains this page.

Technique:

Casting?

Literature:

References:

Blades, William (1869) A list of medals, jettons, tokens, & c., in connection with printers and the art of printing. London. (see Plates 2H).

Gessner, Christian Friedrich (1740) Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiezerey, mit ihren Schriften, Formaten und allen dazu gehörigen Instrumenten Volume 4, Table I, number II. A description can be found in Volume 3, page 480-481.