
Jacob Bellaert (born in
Zierikzee) was an early
Dutch publisher who produced seventeen books in
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
from 1483 to 1486. The early Netherlandish painter Master of Bellaert or Master of Jacob Bellaert is so called for his many woodcuts in Bellaert's publications.
Biography

Little is known of his life or that of his illustrator. According to the
National Library of the Netherlands (KB), the edition of ''Der sonderen troest of het Proces tussen Belial ende Moyses'' is the only version of
Jacobus de Teramo's story of ''
Liber Bellial'' known to have been produced in Dutch.
[Jacob Bellaert]
in the KB In his 1484 edition of
Bartholomeus Anglicus's book ''Van de proprieteiten der dingen'' (English:"Of the propriety of things"), Jacob Bellaert printed his own name in the
colophon, which is how his name survived.
[Record "KW 168 E 8"](_blank)
in the National Library of the Netherlands for ''Van den proprieteyten der dinghen'', dated 24 Dec. 1485
According to the RKD the art historian
W.R. Valentiner William Reinhold Valentiner (May 2, 1880 – September 6, 1958) was a Germans, German-American Art history, art historian, art critic and museum administrator. He was educated and trained in Europe, first working at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and ...
identified the illustrator as identical to the painter
Albert van Ouwater
Albert van Ouwater ( 1410/1415 – 1475) was one of the earliest artists of Early Netherlandish painting working in the Northern Netherlands, as opposed to Flanders in the South of the region.
Biography
He was probably born in Oudewater, and is m ...
and the
Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl.
[Meester van Bellaert]
in the RKD
Works in the KB

* "Doctrinal du temps présent", by
Pierre Michault
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
, Jacob Bellaert, 24 juli 1486
* "Boek van den pelgrim", by
Guillaume de Digulleville
Guillaume de Deguileville (1295 - before 1358) was a French Cistercian and writer. His authorship is shown by one acrostic in ''Le Pèlerinage de la Vie Humaine'', two in ''Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme'', and one in ''Le Pèlerinage de Jhesucrist''. T ...
, Jacob Bellaert, 20 aug. 1486
* "Epistolae et Evangelia", by Jacob Bellaert, 8 April 1486
*
Le recueil des histoires de Troyes, Raoul Le Fèvre, Jacob Bellaert, 1485-1486.
* "Van den proprieteyten der dinghen", by
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ''van mi Meester Jacop Bellaert van Ziericzee'', 24 December 1485
* "Der sonderen troest", by
Jacobus van Theramo
A Jacobus is an English gold coin of the reign of James I, worth 25 shillings. The name of the coin comes from the Latin inscription surrounding the King's head on the obverse of the coin, IACOBUS D G MAG BRIT FRA ET HI REX ("James, by the grac ...
, Jacob Bellaert, 15 February 1484
* "De vier uitersten", by
Gerardys de Vliederhoven, Jacob Bellaert, 12 November 1484
* "Der Sielen troest", by
Johannes Moirs
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...
, Jacobus Bellaert, 9 August 1484
* "Summe le roy of des conincs summe. Ende leert hoe dat men de sonden biechten ende beteren sal", by
Laurent d'Orléans
Laurent may refer to:
*Laurent (name), a French masculine given name and a surname
**Saint Laurence (aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent
**Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician
**Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, amateur astronomer, discoverer ...
, Jacob Bellaert, 31 May 1484
* "Boec des gulden throens of der xxiv ouden", by
Otto von Passau
Otto of Passau was a medieval German clerical author.
Biography
All that is known of him is in the preface of his work, in which he calls himself a member of the Franciscan Order, at one time lector of theology at Basle, and says that he finished ...
, Jacop Bellaert, 25 October 1484
References
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15th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire
1450s births
1480s deaths
Artists from Haarlem
Dutch publishers (people)
Early Netherlandish painters
Medieval Dutch people
People from Zierikzee
Printers of incunabula