Gauthier Manilius (died late 1626) was active as a printer and bookseller in
Ghent
Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...
from 1574 until his death. His career was marked by the course of the
Dutch Revolt
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (; 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, exc ...
.
Life
Gauthier took over the family printing business, founded by
his father, on
his brother Ghileyn's death in 1574. Over the course of his fifty-two-year career he printed over 300 titles. Under the Calvinist regime (1578–1584) he printed Calvinist books, most importantly a Dutch abridgement of
Calvin's ''
Institutes of the Christian Religion
''Institutes of the Christian Religion'' () is John Calvin's seminal work of systematic theology. Regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology, it was published in Latin in 1536 at the same time as Henry VIII of England's ...
''. From 1585 he printed Catholic books. Much of his work, however, was legal printing for the City of Ghent and the
Council of Flanders, and other secular material. He died in late 1626.
[ Victor Vander Haeghen, "Manilius (Gauthier)", '']Biographie Nationale de Belgique
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''
vol. 13
(Brussels, 1895), 335–337. His widow ran the business from 1626 to 1631, when their son, Servais Manilius, came into his inheritance.
Publications
* 1578: ''Enchiridion, oft Handtboecxken van de Christelijcke Leere ende Religion''
Available on Google Books* 1581: Nicasius Van der Schuere, ''Een cleyne of corte institutie dat is onderwysinghe der christelijcker religie ghestelt in locos communes'' – a Dutch abridgement of Calvin's ''Institutes''
Available on Google Books* 1584: ''Articles et conditions ... accordez a la Ville de Gand'' – terms of the
surrender of Ghent to
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese (, ; 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592) was an Italian noble and military leader, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592. Nephew to Kin ...
, 17 September 1584
Available on Google Books* 1585: ''Artijclen ende conditien by mijn heere de prince van Parme, Plaisance, etc. Gouverneur ende Stadthouder generael vande Landen van herwaertsovere, wten name vander Conijncklicke Majesteyt van Hispanien, Grave van Vlaendren, etc. gheaccodeert der stadt van ghendt ende Inghesetenen van diere, den xvijsten Septembris M.D.LXXXIIII''
Available on Google Books* 1585: ''Articulen ende Conditien vanden Tractate aenghegaen ende ghesloten, tusschen die Hoocheyt vanden Prince van Parma, Plaisance, etc. Stadthouder, Gouverneur ende Capiteyne generael, vande Landen van Herwaertsover, inden name vande Conincklijcke Ma
eteyt van Spaengien als Hertoghe van Brabant ter eenre, ende die Stadt van Bruessele ter ander zyden, den thienden Meerte M.D.LXXXV'' – terms of the surrender of Brussels.
* 1598:
Cornelius Columbanus Vrancx, O.S.B., ''Der leecken soutere, van hondert en vijftich gheestelicke vraghen en andtwoorden''
Available on Google Books* 1599: Cornelius Columbanus Vrancx, O.S.B., ''Der Catholijcken hemelschen, levenden, en levenmakenden wijn''
Available on Google Books* 1610: ''De President ende Raetslieden van de Eerdts-hertogen ... Op't uyt-gheven ende stroyen van diversche Boecxkens''
Available on Google Books* 1613: Cornelius Columbanus Vrancx, O.S.B., ''Van een recht ende volmaeckt gheloove in God''
Available on Google Books* 1615: ''Wetten, costumen, ende statuten der stede, ende casselrye van Veurne'' – codification of the customary laws of
Veurne
Veurne (; , ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Belgium, Belgian Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Veurne proper and the settlements of , , ...
Available on Google Books* 1617: Adrian Clais, ''Almanach ende prognosticatie, vanden Jaere ons Heeren M.DC.XXVII''
Available on Google Books
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manilius, Gauthier
Year of birth unknown
1626 deaths
16th-century printers
17th-century printers
16th-century publishers (people)
17th-century publishers (people)
Book publishers (people) from the Spanish Netherlands