Christoffel van Dijck

Dutch type designer · Netherlands · Lived 1605 to 1669 · aged 64

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Christoffel van Dijck 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.

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This detail of a map by Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode (1647) shows the Elandsstraat and the Hazenstraat in the middle; a little bit down is the location of two houses under one roof with a portal (to an inn), a barn and a garden.

Blackletter types by van Dijck compared to those cut by Joan Michael Fleischman in the following century.

Yisus vordi (Jesus the son), a book printed by Van Dijck's client Matteos Tsaretsi in 1661. The body text uses van Dijck's Text bolorgir Armenian type.[28]

The widow of Daniel Elsevier's type specimen offering van Dijck's foundry for sale in 1681 (facsimile).[65] Not all the types shown are by van Dijck.

About this person

Country

Netherlands

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1605 to 1669 · aged 64

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