Jan Maes or Joannes Masius (active 1566–1615) was a printer and bookseller in the university town of

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in the

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Career

Masius, a native of Leuven, moved to

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to work for

Christopher Plantin Christophe Plantin ( nl, Christoffel Plantijn; – 1 July 1589) was a French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher who resided and worked in Antwerp. Life Plantin was born in France, probably in Saint-Avertin, near the city of ...

at the

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in 1566.. He left Plantin in 1567 and in 1570 he was licensed as a printer in the city of Leuven. One of his sons, Joannes Masius the Younger, became a printer-bookseller in

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; another, Bernard or Bernardin, took over his business in Leuven in 1616.

Publications

* 1576: Antoon van Tsestich, ''Orthographia Linguae Belgicae, sive de recta dictionum Teutonicarum scriptura, secundum Belgarum, praesertim Brabantorum, pronuntiandi usitatam rationem''
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* 1585:

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, ''Historia Decem Martyrum Salsetanorum'' – an account of the Martyrs of Cuncolim
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* 1586: Jacobus Jansenius, ''In sacrum Missae Canonem''
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* 1591: Adrianus Romanus, ''Ouranographia sive caeli descriptio''
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* 1595:

Joannes Molanus Joannes Molanus (1533–1585), often cited simply as Molanus, is the Latinized name of Jan Vermeulen or Van der Meulen, an influential Counter Reformation Catholic theologian of Louvain University, where he was Professor of Theology, and Rector ...

, ''Natales sanctorum Belgii et eorundem chronica recapitulatio'', with Philippus Zangrius * 1596: Jacobus Jansenius, ''In Canticum Canticorum Salomonis Commentarius'', with Philippus Zangrius
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* 1597: Jacobus Jansenius, ''In Psalterium, et Cantica, quibus per horas Canonicas Romana utitur Ecclesia expositio'', with Philippus Zangrius
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* 1598: anonymous, ''Aen Hollandt''
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* 1600:

Hendrik van Cuyk Hendrik van Cuyk or Henricus Cuyckius (1546–1609) was the second bishop of Roermond from 1596 until his death in 1609. J.-J. Thonissen, "Cuyck, Henri van", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 4(Brussels, 1873), 601–605. Life Cuyk was born ...

, ''Ad Mauritium Comitem Nassavium Secunda Paraenetica epistola''
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* 1604: Jacobus Jansenius, ''Liturgica, sive de sacrificiis materiati altaris, libri quatuor''
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* 1606: Adrianus Romanus, ''Speculum Astronomicum sive Organum Forma Mappae Expressum''
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* 1607:

Jean-Baptiste Gramaye Jean-Baptiste Gramaye ( Antwerp, 1579 - Lübeck, 1635) was an early modern historian of the Southern Netherlands. He studied law and became a professor at Leuven University. Later he was employed as court historian by Albert VII, Archduke of Austr ...

, ''Historia Brabantica''
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* 1615: Joannes Baptista Wils (

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Francis Wichmans Francis Wichmans (1596–1661), in religion Augustinus, was a Premonstratensian spiritual author, missionary, and abbot of Tongerlo Abbey. In the last capacity he sat in the First Estate of the States of Brabant. Life Wichmans was born Antwerp on ...

), ''Epigrammata de viris sanctimonia illustribus ex Ordine Praemonstratensi''

References

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