Plantin–Moretus Museum
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The Plantin–Moretus Museum is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th-century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence a
Library of Plantin–Moretus Museum
View of the courtyard of the museum
Original printing presses at the museum
Jan Moretus
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Jan Moretus, also John Moerentorf or Joannes Moretus, was a Flemish printer who was an apprentice for Christophe Plantin, married his daughter, and later inherited the printing business on his father-
Printer's mark of Jan I Moretus, found in Henricus Sedvlius, Præscriptiones adversvs hæreses (1606), Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge 1875a (f. *1 recto)
Jan Moretus, portrait by Peter Paul Rubens