Moretus

Moretus, which is the goal of our immediate ambition.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

In the afternoon I went to the Plantin-Moretus Museum.

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(Antwerp: J. Moretus); (1615b) revised, second edition.

Justus Lipsius Papy, Jan 2004

Moretus in accordance with the curious custom that prevailed among scholars of the sixteenth century.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

The once great printing house of Plantin-Moretus was founded by the Frenchman, Christopher Plantin, who was born at St. Aventin, near Tours, in 1514, and began his business life as a book-binder at Rouen.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

Printing, indeed, in those days was itself a fine art, and the glories of the house of Plantin-Moretus rivalled those of the later Chiswick Press, and of the goodly Chaucers edited in our own time by Professor Skeat, and printed by William Morris.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

Plantin's own time remain -- for nearly three centuries; the Great and Little Libraries, with their splendid collection of books; the archive room, with its long series of business accounts and ledgers; the private livingrooms of the Moretus family; and last, but not least, the modest little shop, where books still repose upon the shelves, which looks as though the salesman might return at any moment to his place behind the counter.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

The Plantin-Moretus family held a high position in the civic life of Antwerp, and mixed in the intellectual and artistic society for which Antwerp was famed in the seventeenth century -- the Antwerp of Rubens (though not a native) and Van Dyck, of

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

Corresp. de P. (Ghent, 1884 sq.); IDEM, Le Musée P. - Moretus

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Martina, wife of Johannes Moerentorf (Latinized Moretus), who was his assistant for many years.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913