The Cultura Fonds Library is a library of Rare Books and Manuscripts situated at Dilbeek, Belgium.It is privately, company-owned, and was founded in 1991, following the acquisition of 510 books printed by a 16th C printer born in France around 1520, but based at Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (Period of activity: c.1549-1589). We will come back to the holdings in detail shortly.
The Library can be visited by the larger public and by researchers every weekday from Mo-Fri, during business hours: 9.00 a.m - 5.30 p.m. Visits are arranged by appointment with the curator.
The purpose of presenting it in these pages is to acquaint the larger public with the library's holdings and features, but our approach certainly takes into account the interest of book historians.
Perhaps these pages become superfluous once a presentation by other digital means becomes possible, which will be of greater research interest, but this is uncertain at the moment.
More precisely, we hope to highlight in these pages certain partial features of the collection, such as bindings or provenances.
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