24 Autograph letters, in French (23) and Italian (1), from Magdelaine Plantin (Paris) and her husband(s) Gilles Beys and Adrien Perier, and their relatives, to Jan and Balthasar
Moretus (Antwerp), 1573-1641. On paper, various sizes, with addresses. In very good condition.
Cfr. ill.
Important unpublished correspondence on business and family matters from the Paris Offi cina
Plantiniana with Chr. Plantin's collaborator and successor Jan Moretus (and Jan's son Balthasar).
List (in order of the 19th-c. purple numbering in left top corner): 1a. Magdelaine Plantin, 1598 (2); 1b. Adrien Perier & M. Plantin, 1598. - 2a. Gilles Beys, 1573 (in Italian); 2b. G. Beys, 1619 (?); 2c. G. Beys, 1578. - 3a-d. Adrien Perier, 1600 (1) - 1601 (3). - 4a-b. Christofl e Beys to Balthasar
Moretus, 1641. - 5a. G. Beys to B. Moretus, 1617; 5b-c. Idem, 1619 (2, 1 with Balthasar's draft answer). - 6a-b. Marguerite Beys to Jan Moretus, 1600-1601. - 7a-b Pierre Pautonnier (husband of
Marguerite Beys) to Balthasar Moretus, 1616 (and “n.d.”). - 8a-b. Jeremie Perier to Jan Moretus, 1596, 1599. - 9a. Olivier de Varennes (husband of Marie Beys) to Jan Moretus, 1600; 9b. Idem to
Balthasar Moretus, 1611. - 10. Adrian Beys to Jan Moretus, 1600.
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