Died late 1626 Era handpress Other names Gaultier Manilius Name Gauthier Manilius | Parents Cornelis Manilius Years active 1574–1626 Residence Ghent, Belgium | |
Notable work Nicasius Van der Schuere, Een cleyne of corte institutie dat is onderwysinghe der christelijcker religie (1581) – Dutch abridgement of Calvin's Institutes | ||
Occupation printer and bookseller | ||
Gauthier Manilius (died late 1626) was active as a printer and bookseller in Ghent from 1574 until his death. His career was marked by the course of the Dutch Revolt.
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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. 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. His widow ran the business from 1626 to 1631, when their son, Servais Manilius, came into his inheritance.