The 36-line Bible is a monument in the history of printing. The Augustinian monastery of Nuremberg donated this copy in 1514 to its new sister institution in Antwerp. When that monastery was closed in 1522 because of Lutheran sympathies, the Bible was put on the market. Nobody knows how it then ended up in Plantin’s library.
The Biblia Polyglotta or multilingual Bible is a monumental masterpiece of Plantin. It consists of eight volumes: four for the Old Testament, one for the New Testament and three volumes of apparatus or commentary. The Biblical text itself is printed in five languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean (Aramaic) and Syriac.
The Octo missae contains eight Mass settings by the Antwerp composer Georges de la Hèle. This monumental work was the first musical work to be printed by the Officina Plantiniana, in 1578.
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is the world’s very first atlas. The Antwerper Abraham Ortelius created his masterpiece from the best charts and maps. The first edition of this first atlas was published in 1570.
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