Measurements Goran Tišljarić

 The facsimile of the Atlas der Neederlanden will be printed in Croatia, the frim Zrinski in Čakovec, a town in the north of Croatia. It will be a very complicated job and experts Željko Strbad and Goran Tišljarić have come to Amsterdam to measure tha maps. Not just the size of the paper, but also the margins and the ways all the individual maps have been folden. Map by map is inspected, in the right order, included the maps that have been (temporarily) removed from their volume. They make a dummy for each volume so the printers will know the the size of each map and where it has to go exactly. When a large map is folded in a rather complicated way (with the risk of damage when un- and refolding), they try to find a better way to fold the map. It takes days to go through all the nine volumes.

Meeting of minds: printers, publishers, scientists. (picture taken by Wim van Stormbroek).

Goran Tišljarić takes notes.

Željko Strbad taking measurments

Reconstructing how a map is folded using the original UvA scans.

Folding...

Men at work: Željko Strbad and Goran Tišljaric

Dummy of Volume 4 and the beginnings of dummy of volume 5.