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, is first recorded as working for Christopher Plantin at the Plantin Press in 1566.[1] 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 Ath; another, Bernard or Bernardin, took over his business in Leuven in 1616.[1]

Publications

References

  1. "Joannes Masius". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 28 Aug 2018..
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