Michiel Cnobbaert or Michiel Knobbaert (''fl'' 1652–1706) was a Flemish printer, publisher and bookseller who was active in

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in the latter half of the 17th century.Michiel Cnobbaert
at the

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His publications included devotional works, religious and polemical works and legal publications on local laws and customs in Flanders.E.M.F. Verheggen, ''Beelden voor Passie en Hartstocht bid- en devotieprenten in de Noordelijke Nederlanden in de 17de en 18de eeuw'', Walburg Pers, 1999, p. 194 Els Agten, ''The Catholic Church and the Dutch Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy (1564–1733)'', Brill, 2020, pp. 176-178

Life

Details about the life of Michiel Cnobbaert are scarce. He may have been born in Antwerp as the son of the Antwerp printers and publishers

Joannes Cnobbaert Jan or Joannes Cnobbaert (1590–1637) was a Flemish printer, publisher and bookseller who was active in Antwerp in the early 17th century. Life Cnobbaert was born in Antwerp in 1590. He married Maria de Man.Jan Cnobbaert
at the

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In 1623 Joannes Cnobbaert was registered as living next to the 'Huys der Professen vande Societeyt IESV, in S. Peeter' in Antwerp.Jan Cnobbaert
at the

After he died in Antwerp on 14 September 1637 Maria de Man continued the publishing business of her deceased husband as "Widow of Jan Cnobbaert" ('Vidua Cnobbaert' or 'Veuve Cnobbaert').Maria Cnobbaert
at the

In 1642 Michiel Cnobbaert's presumed sister, Jacoba Maria Cnobbaert, married the prominent portrait painter

Jan Thomas van Ieperen Jan Thomas or Jan Thomas van Ieperen (5 February 1617 – 6 September 1673) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was first active in Antwerp where he worked in the workshop of Rubens. He later became court painter a ...

.Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen
1883, pp. 960–962 Michiel was registered as a wijnmeester (son of a master) in the register of the Antwerp

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in the Guild year 1652-1653.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (eds.), ''De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt"''
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1872, p. 235 His presumed mother Maria de Man (Cnobbaert) died on 18 March 1671. He was active at the same address as his presumed father Joannes Cnobbaert from the early 1670s until 1706. He obtained royal privileges that gave him exclusivity to print in Antwerp books on laws decreed by the counts of Flanders and the so-called suffragia.

Publications

He published devotional works, religious and polemical works and legal publications on local customary law in Flanders and Brabant. He was known for his so-called suffragia, i.e. pictures of saints praying in community for the intercession of saints, the practice of virtues and for each other. He published many works by Jesuit authors, including the April and May volumes of the

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Acta Sanctorum ''Acta Sanctorum'' (''Acts of the Saints'') is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saint's feast day. The project w ...

'' (1675, 1685). This may have been related to the location of his printing house next to the seat of the Jesuit Order in Antwerp. He published works by the founder of the Jesuits as well as polemical critics of the Reformation such as the Flemish Jesuit

Cornelius Hazart Cornelius Hazart (28 October 1617 – 25 October 1690) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, controversialist, orator and writer of polemical history. Life Hazart was born at Oudenaarde in the County of Flanders. He entered the Society of Jesus on ...

. Using his privilege granted for the area of Antwerp, he published and republished various books on local customary law as well as publications by eminent legal scholars such as his name sake Joannes Antonius Cnobbaert (Joannes Antonius Cnobbaert, ''Jus civile gandensium'', Antwerp, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1677}.Gentse stedenmaagd en vier allegorische termen, anonymous, 1677
at the Rijksmuseum

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