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.

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.

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Printer's device of Joannes Masius, found in H. van Cuyck, Litvrgicæ precationes (1605), Universiteit Antwerpen - Bibliotheek Ruusbroecgenootschap RG 3113 H 10 (f. i6 verso)