Christoffel van Dijck

In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Dijck, not Dijck.

van Dijck's Ascendonica roman type
van Dijck's Kleine Augustyn roman type
van Dijck's Kleine Mediaan italic type
van Dijck's Kleine Augustyn blackletter type
Four types by van Dijck in the Enschedé specimen of 1768: Ascendonica and Kleine Augustyn roman, Mediaan italic and Augustyn blackletter.[1]

Christoffel van Dijck (c. 1600-5, Dexheim – November 1669, Amsterdam)[a] was a German-born Dutch punchcutter and typefounder, who cut punches and operated a foundry for casting metal type. Van Dijck's type was widely used at a time when Amsterdam had become a major centre of world printing.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Lane, Lommen & de Zoete 1998, p. 71.
  2. ^ Lane 2012, p. 70.
  3. ^ McKitterick, David J. (1977). "A Type Specimen of Christoffel van Dijck?". Quaerendo. 7 (1): 66–75. doi:10.1163/157006977X00062.
  4. ^ Middendorp 2004, p. 23.
  5. ^ Lommen, Mathieu (1996). "A history of Lettergieterij 'Amsterdam' voorheen N. Tetterode (Typefoundry Amsterdam) 1851-1981". Quaerendo. 26 (2): 120. doi:10.1163/157006996X00089.
  6. ^ Rasterhoff, Clara. "The fabric of creativity in the Dutch Republic: Painting and publishing as cultural industries, 1580-1800" (PDF). University of Utrecht (PhD thesis). Retrieved 3 December 2021.


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