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

Career

Masius, a native of Leuven, moved to Antwerp to work for Christopher Plantin at the Plantin Press in 1566.[1][2] He left Plantin in 1567 and in 1570 he was licensed as a printer in the city of Leuven.[2] One of his sons, Joannes Masius the Younger, became a printer-bookseller in Ath; another, Bernard or Bernardin, took over his business in Leuven in 1616.[1]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Joannes Masius". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 28 Aug 2018..
  2. 1 2 Walsby, Malcolm. "Chapter 15: Cheap Print and the Academic Market: The Printing of Dissertations in Sixteenth-Century Louvain". In Pettegree, Andrew (ed.). Broadsheets: Single-sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print. Brill. pp. 360–361. Retrieved 19 January 2023.


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