Zanna Van Loon is the curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. She obtained a PhD in Early Modern History (KU Leuven, 2020) and worked as the expert on early modern books and analytical bibliography and the project leader of STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Mapping the conditions to record missionary linguistic knowledge on paper Chapter 2: Pre-publication review: controlling the contents and creating credit Chapter 3: Publishing missionary books: a niche market Chapter 4: Foregrounding the printing office in the making of a printed missionary book Chapter 5: Taking into account the particularities of missionary books Chapter 6: A means to an end? Determining a medium to record missionary knowledge Conclusion Works Cited

Zanna Van Loon is the curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. She obtained a PhD in Early Modern History (KU Leuven, 2020) and worked as the expert on early modern books and analytical bibliography and the project leader of STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Mapping the conditions to record missionary linguistic knowledge on paper Chapter 2: Pre-publication review: controlling the contents and creating credit Chapter 3: Publishing missionary books: a niche market Chapter 4: Foregrounding the printing office in the making of a printed missionary book Chapter 5: Taking into account the particularities of missionary books Chapter 6: A means to an end? Determining a medium to record missionary knowledge Conclusion Works Cited

Zanna Van Loon is the curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. She obtained a PhD in Early Modern History (KU Leuven, 2020) and worked as the expert on early modern books and analytical bibliography and the project leader of STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Mapping the conditions to record missionary linguistic knowledge on paper Chapter 2: Pre-publication review: controlling the contents and creating credit Chapter 3: Publishing missionary books: a niche market Chapter 4: Foregrounding the printing office in the making of a printed missionary book Chapter 5: Taking into account the particularities of missionary books Chapter 6: A means to an end? Determining a medium to record missionary knowledge Conclusion Works Cited