Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Haarlem Hexagrams

Hexagrams appear in the printers mark of Jacobus Bellaert from 1483- “the arms above the Griffin are those of the city of Haarlem”. 



Picture copied from Gutenberg project: Printers' Marks, a Chapter in the History of Typography by William Roberts, 1893


Coat of arms of Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland

From Wikipedia Commons courtesy of Mcke

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