via Kristof Selleslach (archivist at MPM):

“The famous Le Bé type specimens are now available online. Guillaume Le Bé II sent his father’s Hebrew and Arabic type specimens to the Officina Plantiniana around 1598.”
https://dams.antwerpen.be/asset/B2Rotef7ckcfkVsYVtnnLi7H

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2023 MPM
via Kristof Selleslach (archivist at Museum Plantin-Moretus):
“One of the highlights for visiting type design and book history students is sammelband Arch. 153, including some of the rarest 16C type specimens. After conservation, the sammelband was fully digitised. The images can now be accessed in high res via:”

https://dams.antwerpen.be/asset/B2Rotef7ckcfkVsYVtnnLi7H

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