COLARD MANSION/ INCUNABULA, PRINTS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN MEDIEVAL BRUGES

In the late Middle Ages, the time of Charles the Bold and Hans Memling, Bruges was a metropolis of books. One of the central figures in the international book trade was Colard Mansion (active from 1457 to 1484). Initially, in addition to being a valued translator, Mansion was primarily a highly sought-after copyist of luxury manuscripts, but when the art of printing made its entrée in Europe i n 1455, he saw his chance and became one of the first in the Low Countries to specialise in the new medium of printed books. In no t ime, he ...[Read more]