Jacob Bellaert (born in

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) was an early

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publisher who produced seventeen books in

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from 1483 to 1486. The early Netherlandish painter Master of Bellaert or Master of Jacob Bellaert is so called for his many woodcuts in Bellaert's publications.

Biography

Anonymous, Christ before Pilate, Rotterdam

Little is known of his life or that of his illustrator. According to the

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(KB), the edition of ''Der sonderen troest of het Proces tussen Belial ende Moyses'' is the only version of

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's story of '' Liber Bellial'' known to have been produced in Dutch.Jacob Bellaert
in the KB In his 1484 edition of

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's book ''Van de proprieteiten der dingen'' (English:"Of the propriety of things"), Jacob Bellaert printed his own name in the colophon, which is how his name survived.Record "KW 168 E 8"
in the

for ''Van den proprieteyten der dinghen'', dated 24 Dec. 1485 According to the RKD the art historian W.R. Valentiner identified the illustrator as identical to the painter Albert van Ouwater and the

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.Meester van Bellaert
in the

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Works in the KB

Recueil des histoires de Troyes - KB Copy - 78 D 48 - 010 006v

* "Doctrinal du temps présent", by Pierre Michault, Jacob Bellaert, 24 juli 1486 * "Boek van den pelgrim", by Guillaume de Digulleville, Jacob Bellaert, 20 aug. 1486 * "Epistolae et Evangelia", by Jacob Bellaert, 8 April 1486 *
Le recueil des histoires de Troyes
, Raoul Le Fèvre, Jacob Bellaert, 1485-1486. * "Van den proprieteyten der dinghen", by

Bartholomaeus Anglicus Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203–1272), also known as Bartholomew the Englishman and Berthelet, was an early 13th-century Scholastic of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium ''De proprietatibus rerum' ...

, ''van mi Meester Jacop Bellaert van Ziericzee'', 24 December 1485 * "Der sonderen troest", by Jacobus van Theramo, Jacob Bellaert, 15 February 1484 * "De vier uitersten", by Gerardys de Vliederhoven, Jacob Bellaert, 12 November 1484 * "Der Sielen troest", by Johannes Moirs, Jacobus Bellaert, 9 August 1484 * "Summe le roy of des conincs summe. Ende leert hoe dat men de sonden biechten ende beteren sal", by

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, Jacob Bellaert, 31 May 1484 * "Boec des gulden throens of der xxiv ouden", by Otto von Passau, Jacop Bellaert, 25 October 1484

References

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