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. 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.

Works

• 1596: Pedro de Ribadeneira, La vie du père François de Borja, translated by Michel d'Esne
• 1597
  • Nicolas de Montmorency, Manuale principes
  • Iacobus de Vitriaco, Libri duo quorum prior orientalis, sive Hierosolymitanae: alter occidentalis historiae nomine inscribitur
• 1605: Floris Van der Haer, Antiquitatum liturgicarum arcana, 2 volumes
• 1608: John Brugman, La vie de la très Saincte et vrayment admirable vierge Ludyvine, translated by Michel d'Esne
• 1612: Philibert Monet, Delectus latinitatis
• 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

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.