Joannes Masius

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

1576: Antoon van Tsestich, Orthographia Linguae Belgicae, sive de recta dictionum Teutonicarum scriptura, secundum Belgarum, praesertim Brabantorum, pronuntiandi usitatam rationem (Available on Google Books)
1585: Alessandro Valignano, Historia Decem Martyrum Salsetanorum – an account of the Martyrs of Cuncolim (Available on Google Books)
1586: Jacobus Jansenius, In sacrum Missae Canonem (Available on Google Books)
1591: Adrianus Romanus, Ouranographia sive caeli descriptio (Available on Google Books)
1595: Joannes Molanus, Natales sanctorum Belgii et eorundem chronica recapitulatio, with Philippus Zangrius
1596: Jacobus Jansenius, In Canticum Canticorum Salomonis Commentarius, with Philippus Zangrius (Available on Google Books)
1597: Jacobus Jansenius, In Psalterium, et Cantica, quibus per horas Canonicas Romana utitur Ecclesia expositio, with Philippus Zangrius (Available on Google Books)
1598: anonymous, Aen Hollandt (Available on Google Books)
1600: Hendrik van Cuyk, Ad Mauritium Comitem Nassavium Secunda Paraenetica epistola (Available on Google Books)
1604: Jacobus Jansenius, Liturgica, sive de sacrificiis materiati altaris, libri quatuor (Available on Google Books)
1606: Adrianus Romanus, Speculum Astronomicum sive Organum Forma Mappae Expressum (Available on Google Books)
1607: Jean-Baptiste Gramaye, Historia Brabantica (Available on Google Books)
1615: Joannes Baptista Wils (pen name of Francis Wichmans), Epigrammata de viris sanctimonia illustribus ex Ordine Praemonstratensi

References

^ ^a ^b "Joannes Masius". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 28 Aug 2018..
^ ^a ^b 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.