17-12-2010

Quest

Worthwhile trek on foot through Amsterdam blizzard to obtain two articles on provenance research by Goran Proot and Steven van Impe, both of which turn out to be very useful for futher development of my provenance research.

Steven van Impe, 'Pronto: een ontologie voor het onderzoek van herkomstmerken'. In: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis. 2008. Nijmegen/Leiden: Uitgeverij Vantilt/NBV. 

Goran Proot, 'Gebruikssporen in programmaboekjes voor het collegetoneel van de jesuïten in de Provincia Flandro-Belgica (1575-1773). In: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis. 2008. Nijmegen/Leiden: Uitgeverij Vantilt/NBV.  



Lion sitting on top of the gable of a seventeenth century warehouse on the Brouwersgracht, Amsterdam, built in the same period as the Lyon research corpus. The kinglike lion wears a golden crown, an element that features in many 16/17/18th century coats of arms, as on the binding of D'Este's Consolaçam Christaã above. This lion and a  companion lamb were pulled out of a disposal container during restoration activities in the ignorant 1970's by two resourceful ladies Dea and Han, and replaced where they had belonged for many centuries.