Joannes Masius Explained

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. 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.

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Joannes Masius . . data.bnf.fr . . 28 Aug 2018. .
2. Book: Walsby . Malcolm . Pettegree . Andrew . Broadsheets: Single-sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print . Brill . 360–361 . 19 January 2023 . Chapter 15: Cheap Print and the Academic Market: The Printing of Dissertations in Sixteenth-Century Louvain.