Assistant Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts @LindaHall_org, writing about 16th c book trade and publishing, all tweets are my own. She/her
Mar 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Today, I finally got around to re-cataloging a fun #herbook - our copy of Icones Virorum Illustrium (1597-99)
Mme Van Huerne, aka Maria Anna Jozefina de Schietere de Lophem(1764-1804) was the second wife on Joseph van Huerne(1752-1844), a book collector in his own right. Apparently he was kind of a dilletante before they met - a poem about him uses the phrase "dove into indolence"