''Nieuwe Tijdinghen'' (in English also known as the ''Antwerp Gazette'') is the contemporary name cataloguers and bibliographers have given to the first Flemish newspaper, which was published without a single fixed title. News was printed from across
Western
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and
Central Europe
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.
From 15 February 1620 consecutive
signatures
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were used on each issue, so that they could be collected and bound as a set. From 8 January 1621 issues were numbered consecutively on the front page.
The newspaper carried a wide range of general news, and sometimes included celebratory, polemical or satirical comments, verses, songs and prayers. Each issue was illustrated with a woodcut on the front page, and occasionally with further woodcuts on the back pages. The editorial perspective was outspokenly Catholic and pro-Habsburg.
Publication was licensed by the authorities, and almost all issues bear the initials of the canon of Antwerp cathedral who acted as ecclesiastical censor.
Considerable runs are preserved in the
British Library
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(1620-1621),
Ghent University Library
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History
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, the
Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience (1620-1625) and the
Royal Library of Belgium
The Royal Library of Belgium (french: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed in French or in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. The library has a history t ...
(1622-1628).
[''Bibliotheca belgica: Bibliographie générale des Pays-Bas'', 1967.]
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1620 establishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
1629 disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
1620 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Defunct weekly newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in Belgium
Dutch-language newspapers published in Belgium
Mass media in Antwerp
Publications established in 1620
Publications disestablished in 1629
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