Balthazar Bellerus

Balthasar or Balthazar Bellerus or Bellère (active 1589–1634) was a printer first at Antwerp and later at Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a son of the reputable Antwerp printer Joannes Bellerus, and set up a printing shop of his own in the Rue des Ecoles in Douai in 1590, becoming a colleague and rival to Jean Bogard.[1] The motto that appeared on his printer's mark was Labore ac perseverantiâ (Work and perseverance). His marks were the golden compass and a unicorn dipping its horn in a stream.[1]

Works
  • 1596: Pedro de Ribadeneira, La vie du père François de Borja, translated by Michel d'Esne
  • 1597
  • 1605: Floris Van der Haer, Antiquitatum liturgicarum arcana, 2 volumes[2]
  • 1608: John Brugman, La vie de la très Saincte et vrayment admirable vierge Ludyvine, translated by Michel d'Esne
  • 1612: Philibert Monet, Delectus latinitatis[3]
  • 1614: Guilielmus Estius, In Omnes Divi Pauli Apostoli Epistolas Commentariorum Tomus Prior
  • 1617: Biblia Sacra in six volumes with the Glossa Ordinaria and the postils of Nicholas of Lyra
  • 1618: François-Hyacinthe Choquet, Sancti Belgii ordinis Praedicatorum
  • 1623: François-Hyacinthe Choquet, De confessione per literas, seu Internuncium, dissertationes theologicae
  • 1624: Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum naturale, in 4 volumes
  • 1629: François-Hyacinthe Choquet, Actions mémorables des PP. Dominicains qui ont fleuri aux Pays-Bas, translated by Jean de Noeuwirelle[4]

Further reading
  • Albert Labarre, "Les Catalogues de Balthasar Bellère à Douai, 1598–1636", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 55 (1980), pp. 150–154.
  • H. Vanhulst, "Balthasar Bellère, marchand de musique à Douai (1603–1636)", Revue de musicologie, 85 (1999), pp. 227–263.

References
  1. Félix Nève, "Beller (Balthazar) ou Bellère", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1868), 136-138.
  2. Vol. 1, vol. 2 on Google Books.
  3. Delectus latinitatis on Google Books
  4. Actions mémorables on Google Books
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