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'''Jan van Doesborch''' (c. 1470/80 – Utrecht, 1536), also known as '''Jan van Doesborgh''', '''John of Doesborch''' or '''John of Doesborowe''', was a Dutch author, bookseller, printer, [[engraver]], publisher and [[translator]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to the Book |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |editor-last=Suarez |editor-first=Michael F. |location=Oxford |chapter=Jan van Doesborch}}</ref><ref name="Proctor">{{cite book |last1=Proctor |first1=Robert |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography |date=1894 |publisher=The Bibliographical Society |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslen |first=R. |title=Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |location=New York |pages=136–157 |chapter=The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fortunaso |first=Robert |date=2023-01-30 |title=Jan van Doesborch |url=https://robinhoodlegend.com/jan-van-doesborch/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction}}</ref> During the course of his career as a printer and bookseller during the period roughly between 1502 and 1532, he published around sixty books in various genres, including works of prose fiction, medieval legend, practical handbooks, and colonial travelogues.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London}}</ref> These books were mainly printed in either Dutch or English.
'''Jan van Doesborch''' (c. 1470/80 – Utrecht, 1536), also known as '''Jan van Doesborgh''', '''John of Doesborch''' or '''John of Doesborowe''', was a Dutch author, bookseller, printer, [[engraver]], publisher and [[translator]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to the Book |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |editor-last=Suarez |editor-first=Michael F. |location=Oxford |chapter=Jan van Doesborch}}</ref><ref name="Proctor">{{cite book |last1=Proctor |first1=Robert |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography |date=1894 |publisher=The Bibliographical Society |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslen |first=R. |title=Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |location=New York |pages=136–157 |chapter=The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fortunaso |first=Robert |date=2023-01-30 |title=Jan van Doesborch |url=https://robinhoodlegend.com/jan-van-doesborch/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction}}</ref> During the course of his career as a printer and bookseller during the period roughly between 1502 and 1532, he published at least sixty books in various genres, including works of prose fiction, [[Jest_book|jest books]], medieval legend, practical handbooks, and colonial travelogues.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London}}</ref> These books were mainly printed in either Dutch or English.


Jan van Doesborch's life is poorly documented. No archives have been preserved from the fifteenth century, with the result that we do not know when and where he was born, from which environment he came, what his marital status was or what education(s) he received.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Proctor |first=Robert G. C. |date=1892 |title=Jan van Doesborgh |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1093_library_s1-4_1_208/mode/2up?q=doesborch+%22new+lands%22 |journal=The Library |volume=1–4 |issue=1 |pages=208–215}}</ref> Presumably he learned the printing profession from the [[Antwerp]] printer Roland vanden Dorpe, whose company and inventory he took over from his widow around 1500 in 1501 after his death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=5}}</ref> Traditionally, his year of birth is estimated circa 1470, but around 1480 is equally possible. In any case, he mastered English and French well enough to be able to translate into and out of those languages. He likely had some knowledge of Latin and possibly Greek.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fortunaso |first=Robert |date=2023-01-30 |title=Jan van Doesborch |url=https://robinhoodlegend.com/jan-van-doesborch/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction}}</ref>
Jan van Doesborch's life is poorly documented. No archives have been preserved from the fifteenth century, with the result that we do not know when or where he was born, from what class or milieu he came, what his marital status was, or what education he received.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Proctor |first=Robert G. C. |date=1892 |title=Jan van Doesborgh |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1093_library_s1-4_1_208/mode/2up?q=doesborch+%22new+lands%22 |journal=The Library |volume=1–4 |issue=1 |pages=208–215}}</ref> Presumably he learned the printing profession from the [[Antwerp]] printer Roland vanden Dorpe, whose company and inventory he took over from his widow around 1501 or 1502 after his death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=5}}</ref> Traditionally, his year of birth is estimated circa 1470, but around 1480 is equally possible. In any case, he mastered English and French well enough to be able to translate into and out of those languages. He likely had some knowledge of Latin and possibly Greek.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fortunaso |first=Robert |date=2023-01-30 |title=Jan van Doesborch |url=https://robinhoodlegend.com/jan-van-doesborch/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction}}</ref> The first recorded appearance of his name is in 1508, in the archive of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, in which he was registered as an illuminator and engraver.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Proctor |first=Robert G. C. |date=1892 |title=Jan van Doesborgh |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1093_library_s1-4_1_208/mode/2up?q=doesborch+%22new+lands%22 |journal=The Library |volume=1–4 |issue=1 |pages=209}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=6}}</ref>
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The first recorded appearance of his name is in 1508, in the archive of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, in which he was registered as an illuminator and engraver.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Proctor |first=Robert G. C. |date=1892 |title=Jan van Doesborgh |url=https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1093_library_s1-4_1_208/mode/2up?q=doesborch+%22new+lands%22 |journal=The Library |volume=1–4 |issue=1 |pages=209}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=6}}</ref>


In 1523 Doesborch was apparently in England, as his name can be found as "Johanne van Dwysborow" in the Tax Records of the parish church of [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Franssen |first=Piet |date=2023-01-30 |title=The World of Jan van Doesborch |url=http://janvandoesborch.com/book |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Jan Van Doesborch |page=10}}</ref> That Doesborch had some ties to the English printing and bookselling trades is also evidenced by his printing of a handful of books in English and by his apparent ties to the London bookseller [[Laurence Andrewe]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=8}}</ref> Scholars of the history of printing have also suggested that Doesborch's publications exerted a considerable influence on the English book market. R. Maslen for instance posits that: "If [[William Caxton]] and [[Wynkyn de Worde]] had a more obvious influence on a wider range of literary genres, van Doesborch and his translators—who included the Englishman Laurence Andrewe—may be said to have shaped the entire course of English prose fiction in the sixteenth century."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslen |first=R. |title=Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |location=New York |pages=136 |chapter=The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.}}</ref> Ben Parsons has likewise stated: "Van Doesborch may even be termed a literary dictator, as his publications set the tone of the English book market for a number of years."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parsons |first=Ben |date=2007 |title=Dutch Influences on English Literary Culture in the Early Renaissance, 1470-1650 |journal=Literature Compass |volume=4 |pages=1581}}</ref>
In 1523 Doesborch was apparently in England, as his name can be found as "Johanne van Dwysborow" in the Tax Records of the parish church of [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Franssen |first=Piet |date=2023-01-30 |title=The World of Jan van Doesborch |url=http://janvandoesborch.com/book |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=Jan Van Doesborch |page=10}}</ref> That Doesborch had some ties to the English printing and bookselling trades is also evidenced by his printing of a handful of books in English and by his apparent ties to the London bookseller [[Laurence Andrewe]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=8}}</ref> Scholars of the history of printing have also suggested that Doesborch's publications exerted a considerable influence on the English book market. R. Maslen for instance posits that: "If [[William Caxton]] and [[Wynkyn de Worde]] had a more obvious influence on a wider range of literary genres, van Doesborch and his translators—who included the Englishman Laurence Andrewe—may be said to have shaped the entire course of English prose fiction in the sixteenth century."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslen |first=R. |title=Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |location=New York |pages=136 |chapter=The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.}}</ref> Ben Parsons has likewise stated: "Van Doesborch may even be termed a literary dictator, as his publications set the tone of the English book market for a number of years."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parsons |first=Ben |date=2007 |title=Dutch Influences on English Literary Culture in the Early Renaissance, 1470-1650 |journal=Literature Compass |volume=4 |issue=6 |pages=1581|doi=10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00497.x |hdl=2381/29105 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/10132310 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>


It is clear that Jan van Doesborch tried to print books for a contemporary market of interested readers. In numerous instances he compiled thematic books, in which he incorporated fragments of texts he had previously published: the books ''The nine drunkards, Der nine quaetsten,'' and ''That bedroch der vrouwen'' include overlapping materials, for instance. Likewise, his books ''Of the newe landes'', ''Die reyse van Lissebone'', ''Van pape Jans landen'', and ''Van der nieuwer werelt'' share and reuse illustrations and text, newly translated.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=21–32}}</ref> In the last two titles he mixed stories from the Bible and the classical world with new translations from the famous Burgundian collection of short stories ''[[Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles|Les cent nouvelles nouvelles]]'' (ca. 1464 – 1467).
It is clear that Jan van Doesborch tried to print books for a contemporary market of interested readers. In numerous instances he compiled thematic books, in which he incorporated fragments of texts he had previously published: the books ''The nine drunkards, Der nine quaetsten,'' and ''That bedroch der vrouwen'' include overlapping materials, for instance. In the last two titles, he mixed stories from the Bible and the classical world with new translations from the famous Burgundian collection of short stories ''[[Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles|Les cent nouvelles nouvelles]]'' (ca. 1464 – 1467). Similarly, his books ''Of the newe landes'', ''Die reyse van Lissebone'', ''Van der nieuwer werelt'', and the broadside ''De novo mondo'' incorporate the source material of Balthasar Sprenger's account of his participation in the [[7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)|Seventh Portuguese India Armada]] of 1505–06, a mercantile expedition from Lisbon to the eastern coast of Africa and India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=21–32}}</ref>

Another notable aspect of the books printed by Doesborch is the abundance of woodcut illustrations that appear in them. For this reason, Doesborch's books are of some art-historical interest today.

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The primary typeface used by Doesborch for printing his books is similar or identical to that used by Jacobus de Breda, Henrik de Lettersnider, R. van den Dorpe, and Henrik Eckert in the fifteenth, and by almost every printer in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=9}}</ref>


The [[Utrecht]] [[Buurkerk]] records state that he died (and was buried) there in 1536.
The [[Utrecht]] [[Buurkerk]] records state that he died (and was buried) there in 1536.


==Works published by Van Doesborch==
==Works published by Van Doesborch==
The following bibliography of books printed by Van Doesborch has been established by Piet Franssen.<ref name="Franssen Dissertation">{{cite book |last1=Franssen |first1=Piet |title=Tussen tekst en publiek: Jan van Doesborch, drukker-uitgever en literator te Antwerpen en Utrecht in de eerste helft van de zestiende eeuw |date=1990 |publisher=Rodopi |location=Amsterdam |page=47–48}}</ref> Most of the titles are also recorded by Proctor in his 1894 monograph ''Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=19-37}}</ref> This list may not be exhaustive. Titles of which no surviving copies are believed to be extant are in brackets.
The following bibliography of books printed by Van Doesborch has been established by Piet Franssen.<ref name="Franssen Dissertation">{{cite book |last1=Franssen |first1=Piet |title=Tussen tekst en publiek: Jan van Doesborch, drukker-uitgever en literator te Antwerpen en Utrecht in de eerste helft van de zestiende eeuw |date=1990 |publisher=Rodopi |location=Amsterdam |pages=47–48}}</ref> Most of the titles are also recorded by Proctor in his 1894 monograph ''Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proctor |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 |title=Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. |publisher=The Bibliographical Society. |year=1894 |location=London |pages=19–37}}</ref> This list may not be exhaustive. Titles of which no surviving copies are believed to be extant are in brackets.

[[File:Title page for 'Van Pape Jans Landendes' (c. 1506), printed and published by Jan van Doesborch.jpg|thumb|Title page for ''Van Pape Jans Landendes'' (c. 1506), printed and published in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch.]]


[[File:Title page of 'Van der nieuwer werelt' (ca. 1507).png|thumb|Title page of ''Van der nieuwer werelt'' (ca. 1507), printed in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch]]
[[File:Title page for 'Van Pape Jans Landendes' (c. 1506), printed and published by Jan van Doesborch.jpg|thumb|Title page for ''Van Pape Jans Landen'' (c. 1506), printed and published in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch.]]


[[File:Title page of 'Van der nieuwer werelt' (ca. 1507), BW.jpg|thumb|Title page of ''Van der nieuwer werelt'' (ca. 1507)]]
[[File:Woodcut from the Die reyse van Lissebone (1508) of printer Jan van Doesborch.png|thumb|Woodcut from the Die reyse van Lissebone (1508) of printer Jan van Doesborch. The woodcut is based on the "Kunig von Gutzin" woodcut of Hans Burgkmair, made from Balthasar Sprenger's descriptions of his journey from Lisbon to India in 1505-6.]]


[[File:Mariken van Nieuweghen.gif|thumb|Title page of ''Historie van Mariken van Nieuweghen'' (ca. 1517)]]
[[File:Title page of 'Die reyse van Lissebone' (1508).jpg|thumb|Title page of ''Die reyse van Lissebone'' (1508)]]


[[File:Printer's device from the 'Oorspronck' (c. 1517) of Jan van Doesborch.jpg|thumb|Printer's device from the ''Oorspronck'' (c. 1517) of Jan van Doesborch, depicting a throne room with sovereign, attendants, enclosed by an elaborate ornamental border]]
[[File:Printer's device from the 'Oorspronck' (c. 1517) of Jan van Doesborch.jpg|thumb|Printer's device from the ''Oorspronck'' (c. 1517) of Jan van Doesborch, depicting a throne room with sovereign, attendants, enclosed by an elaborate ornamental border]]
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[[File:Jan van Doesborch, The noble lyfe & natures of man Wellcome M0012007.jpg|thumb|Title page of ''The noble lyfe & natures of man'', circa 1521]]
[[File:Jan van Doesborch, The noble lyfe & natures of man Wellcome M0012007.jpg|thumb|Title page of ''The noble lyfe & natures of man'', circa 1521]]


[[File:Jan van Doesborch, The noble lyfe & natures of man Wellcome M0012016.jpg|thumb|A page from ''The noble lyfe & natures of man'']]
[[File:Colijn Caillieu's Tdal sonder wederkeeren.jpg|thumb|Title page of ''Tdal sonder wederkeeren'', 1528]]

[[File:Title page of Der vrouwen natuere ende complexie.png|thumb|Title page of ''Der vrouwen natuere ende complexie'', 1531]]


Published in Antwerp:
Published in Antwerp:
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* [''Van den leven ende voerganc des [...] Antekerst'' (ca. 1504)]
* [''Van den leven ende voerganc des [...] Antekerst'' (ca. 1504)]
* ''Die historie van Buevijne van Austoen'' (1504)
* ''Die historie van Buevijne van Austoen'' (1504)
* ''Van pape Jans landen'' (ca. 1506) | [https://books.google.ca/books?id=BflG-qAbPkIC&pg=PP5&lpg=PP5&dq=Van+die+wonderlichede+en+costelicheden+van+Pape+Jans+Landen&source=bl&ots=jKbzWA5L1p&sig=ACfU3U0suDGlQuRihTsw0vGEP8ptLlJJ5A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEu8Ox7v78AhXIjYkEHZ2JCRkQ6AF6BAgiEAM#v=onepage&q=Van%20die%20wonderlichede%20en%20costelicheden%20van%20Pape%20Jans%20Landen&f=false Digital copy at Google Books]
* ''Van pape Jans landen'' (ca. 1506) | [https://books.google.com/books?id=nUvxCaCbBfYC Digital copy at Google Books]
* ''Van den ghedinghe tusschen eenen coopman ende eenen jode'' (ca. 1505 - 1510)
* ''Van den ghedinghe tusschen eenen coopman ende eenen jode'' (ca. 1505 - 1510)
* ''Van der nieuwer werelt'' (ca. 1507) | [https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/On_the_New_World_or_Landscape_Recently_Discovered_by_the_Illustrious_King_of_Portugal_Through_the_Very_Best_Pilots_and_Sea_Experts_of_the_World_WDL2829.pdf Digital copy at Wikimedia]
* ''Van der nieuwer werelt'' (ca. 1507) | [https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/On_the_New_World_or_Landscape_Recently_Discovered_by_the_Illustrious_King_of_Portugal_Through_the_Very_Best_Pilots_and_Sea_Experts_of_the_World_WDL2829.pdf Digital copy at Wikimedia]
* ''Distructie van Troyen'' (before dec. 1508)
* ''Distructie van Troyen'' (before dec. 1508)
* ''Die reyse van Lissebone'' (1508) | [https://archive.org/details/diereysevanlisse00spri/ Digital copy at Archive.org]
* ''Die reyse van Lissebone'' (1508) | [https://archive.org/details/diereysevanlisse00spri/ Digital copy at Archive.org]
* ''Long accidence'' (ca. 1509)
* ''Long accidence'' (Latin grammar book, ca. 1509)
* [''De novo mondo'' (broadsheet, ca. 1510) | [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=MMKB31:041841000:00007 Digital copy at Delpher]
* [''De novo mondo'' (broadsheet, ca. 1510) | [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=MMKB31:041841000:00007 Digital copy of 1927 edition at Delpher]
* ''Of the newe landes'' (ca. 1510 - 1511) | [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo2;idno=A21330.0001.001 EEBO-TCP transcription]
* ''Of the newe landes'' (ca. 1510 - 1511) | [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo2;idno=A21330.0001.001 EEBO-TCP transcription]
* ''Dat regiment der ghesontheyt'' (ca. 1510)
* ''Dat regiment der ghesontheyt'' (ca. 1510)
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* [''Historie van Mariken van Nieumeghen'' (before 1515)]
* [''Historie van Mariken van Nieumeghen'' (before 1515)]
* ''Pronosticacion of the yere 1516'' (1515)
* ''Pronosticacion of the yere 1516'' (1515)
* ''Short accidence'' (ca. 1515)
* ''Short accidence'' (Latin grammar book, ca. 1515)
* [''Broeder Russche'' (ca. 1516)]
* [''Broeder Russche'' (ca. 1516)]
* [''Friar Rusch'' (ca. 1516)]
* [''Friar Rusch'' (ca. 1516)]
* [''Alexander van Mets'' (ca. 1516)]
* [''Alexander van Mets'' (ca. 1516)]
* ''Tghevecht van minnen'' (1516)
* ''Tghevecht van minnen'' (1516) | [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ghe001ghev01_01/ Digital copy at Dutch Library]
* ''Den oorspronck onser salicheyt'' (1517)
* ''Den oorspronck onser salicheyt'' (1517) | [https://books.google.com/books?id=wV0frgEACAAJ Digital copy at Google Books]
* ''Causes that be proponed in a consultacyon of a journey to be made agaynst the Turkes'' (1517)
* ''Causes that be proponed in a consultacyon of a journey to be made agaynst the Turkes'' (1517)
* ''[Van Floris ende Blancefloer]'' (ca. 1517)
* ''[Van Floris ende Blancefloer]'' (ca. 1517)
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* ''Die bibele int corte'' (ca. 1518 – 1519)
* ''Die bibele int corte'' (ca. 1518 – 1519)
* [''Den groten herbarius'' (ca. 1518 – 1520)]
* [''Den groten herbarius'' (ca. 1518 – 1520)]
* ''Der dieren palleys'' (1520)
* ''Der dieren palleys'' (1520) | [https://books.google.com/books?id=YyUxtwAACAAJ Digital copy at Google Books]
* ''The noble lyfe and natures of man'' (ca. 1521) | [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bcvxkj8w Digital copy at the Wellcome Library]
* ''The noble lyfe and natures of man'' (ca. 1521) | [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bcvxkj8w Digital copy at the Wellcome Library]
* [''De pastoor van Kalenberg'' (ca. 1521)]
* [''De pastoor van Kalenberg'' (ca. 1521)]
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* [''The deceyte of women'' (ca. 1528 – 1530)]
* [''The deceyte of women'' (ca. 1528 – 1530)]
* [''Het bedrog der mannen'' (na 1528)]
* [''Het bedrog der mannen'' (na 1528)]
* ''Refreynen'' (ca. 1529) | [https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=MMKB21:043831000 Digital copy of 1939 reprint at Delpher]
* ''Refreynen'' (ca. 1529)
* ''Van Brabant die excellente cronike'' (1530) | [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ts7pja3q Digital copy at the Wellcome Library]
* ''Van Brabant die excellente cronike'' (1530) | [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ts7pja3q Digital copy at the Wellcome Library]
* ''Cronycke van Hollandt, Zeeland, ende Vrieslant'' (1530)
* ''Cronycke van Hollandt, Zeeland, ende Vrieslant'' (1530)
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Published in Utrecht:
Published in Utrecht:
* [''Van den .x. esels'' (ca. 1531)]
* [''Van den .x. esels'' (ca. 1531)]
* ''Der vrouwen natuere ende complexie'' (1531)
* ''Der vrouwen natuere ende complexie'' (1531) | [https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/2619 Digital edition at Utrecht University (2009 thesis)]
* ''Den groten herbarlus'' (1532)
* ''Den groten herbarlus'' (1532)
* ''Int paradijs van Venus'' (ca. 1532)
* ''Int paradijs van Venus'' (ca. 1532)


==Further Reading==
==Further reading==
*Besamusca, Bart. "Tekst en beeld in twe drukken van Jan van Doesborch: ''Van Jason ende Hercules'' en ''Die historie van den stercken Hercules''". ''Spiegel der Letteren'', 59.1 (2017): 1–34.
*Besamusca, Bart. "Tekst en beeld in Twee drukken van Jan van Doesborch: ''Van Jason ende Hercules'' en ''Die historie van den stercken Hercules''". ''Spiegel der Letteren'', 59.1 (2017): 1–34.
*Besamusca, Bart. "Raoul Lefèvre in Dutch: Two 1521 Editions of the Antwerp Printer Jan van Doesborch". ''Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History'' 20 (2017): 219–335.
*Besamusca, Bart. "Raoul Lefèvre in Dutch: Two 1521 Editions of the Antwerp Printer Jan van Doesborch". ''Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History'' 20 (2017): 219–335.
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch: The Antwerp Connection". ''Quærendo'' 47 (2017): 278–306.
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch: The Antwerp Connection". ''Quærendo'' 47 (2017): 278–306.
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch en ''The dialoges of creatures moralysed''". ''Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis'', Volume 28.1 (Aug 2021): 143–168.
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch en ''The dialoges of creatures moralysed''". ''Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis'', Volume 28.1 (Aug 2021): 143–168. [https://www.aup-online.com/docserver/fulltext/13810065/28/1/JNB2021.007.FRAN.pdf?expires=1675692039&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=200B242D6E26BD893977107397AE40F4 Link]
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan Van Doesborch and the History of Euryalus and Lucretia". ''Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies'' (May 2019): 216–240. DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2019.1617182. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03096564.2019.1617182 Link]
*Franssen, Piet. "Jan Van Doesborch and the History of Euryalus and Lucretia". ''Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies'' (May 2019): 216–240. DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2019.1617182. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03096564.2019.1617182 Link]
*"Jan van Doesborch". ''The Oxford Companion to the Book''. Eds. Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198606536.001.0001/acref-9780198606536-e-1449 Link]
*"Jan van Doesborch". ''The Oxford Companion to the Book''. Eds. Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198606536.001.0001/acref-9780198606536-e-1449 Link]
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*Proctor, Robert. ''Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography''. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1894. At [https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 Archive.org].
*Proctor, Robert. ''Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography''. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1894. At [https://archive.org/details/cu31924029503533 Archive.org].
*Schlusemann, Rita. "Coöperatie en inspiratie van drukkeruitgevers in Antwerpen in de Tijd van mediaverandering". ''Scandinavian Philology'', 17.2 (2019): 381–396. [https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2019.213 Link]
*Schlusemann, Rita. "Coöperatie en inspiratie van drukkeruitgevers in Antwerpen in de Tijd van mediaverandering". ''Scandinavian Philology'', 17.2 (2019): 381–396. [https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2019.213 Link]
*Vervliet, Henry D.L. "Utrecht, Jan van Doesborch, 1532". In: Vervliet, H.D.L. (eds). ''Post-Incunabula and Their Publishers in the Low Countries''. Springer, Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-4814-8_97. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-4814-8_97 Link]
*[[H. D. L. Vervliet|Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.]] "Utrecht, Jan van Doesborch, 1532". In: Vervliet, H.D.L. (eds). ''Post-Incunabula and Their Publishers in the Low Countries''. Springer, Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-4814-8_97. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-4814-8_97 Link]


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://janvandoesborch.com Scholarly commentary and image galleries by Piet Franssen]
*[http://janvandoesborch.com Scholarly commentary and image galleries by Piet Franssen]


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Jan van Doesborch
Occupation(s)Engraver, author, printer, publisher, bookseller

Jan van Doesborch (c. 1470/80 – Utrecht, 1536), also known as Jan van Doesborgh, John of Doesborch or John of Doesborowe, was a Dutch author, bookseller, printer, engraver, publisher and translator.[1][2][3][4] During the course of his career as a printer and bookseller during the period roughly between 1502 and 1532, he published at least sixty books in various genres, including works of prose fiction, jest books, medieval legend, practical handbooks, and colonial travelogues.[5] These books were mainly printed in either Dutch or English.

Jan van Doesborch's life is poorly documented. No archives have been preserved from the fifteenth century, with the result that we do not know when or where he was born, from what class or milieu he came, what his marital status was, or what education he received.[6] Presumably he learned the printing profession from the Antwerp printer Roland vanden Dorpe, whose company and inventory he took over from his widow around 1501 or 1502 after his death.[7] Traditionally, his year of birth is estimated circa 1470, but around 1480 is equally possible. In any case, he mastered English and French well enough to be able to translate into and out of those languages. He likely had some knowledge of Latin and possibly Greek.[8] The first recorded appearance of his name is in 1508, in the archive of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, in which he was registered as an illuminator and engraver.[9][10]

In 1523 Doesborch was apparently in England, as his name can be found as "Johanne van Dwysborow" in the Tax Records of the parish church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.[11] That Doesborch had some ties to the English printing and bookselling trades is also evidenced by his printing of a handful of books in English and by his apparent ties to the London bookseller Laurence Andrewe.[12] Scholars of the history of printing have also suggested that Doesborch's publications exerted a considerable influence on the English book market. R. Maslen for instance posits that: "If William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde had a more obvious influence on a wider range of literary genres, van Doesborch and his translators—who included the Englishman Laurence Andrewe—may be said to have shaped the entire course of English prose fiction in the sixteenth century."[13] Ben Parsons has likewise stated: "Van Doesborch may even be termed a literary dictator, as his publications set the tone of the English book market for a number of years."[14]

It is clear that Jan van Doesborch tried to print books for a contemporary market of interested readers. In numerous instances he compiled thematic books, in which he incorporated fragments of texts he had previously published: the books The nine drunkards, Der nine quaetsten, and That bedroch der vrouwen include overlapping materials, for instance. In the last two titles, he mixed stories from the Bible and the classical world with new translations from the famous Burgundian collection of short stories Les cent nouvelles nouvelles (ca. 1464 – 1467). Similarly, his books Of the newe landes, Die reyse van Lissebone, Van der nieuwer werelt, and the broadside De novo mondo incorporate the source material of Balthasar Sprenger's account of his participation in the Seventh Portuguese India Armada of 1505–06, a mercantile expedition from Lisbon to the eastern coast of Africa and India.[15]

Another notable aspect of the books printed by Doesborch is the abundance of woodcut illustrations that appear in them. For this reason, Doesborch's books are of some art-historical interest today.

The primary typeface used by Doesborch for printing his books is similar or identical to that used by Jacobus de Breda, Henrik de Lettersnider, R. van den Dorpe, and Henrik Eckert in the fifteenth, and by almost every printer in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century.[16]

The Utrecht Buurkerk records state that he died (and was buried) there in 1536.

Works published by Van Doesborch

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The following bibliography of books printed by Van Doesborch has been established by Piet Franssen.[17] Most of the titles are also recorded by Proctor in his 1894 monograph Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography.[18] This list may not be exhaustive. Titles of which no surviving copies are believed to be extant are in brackets.

Title page for Van Pape Jans Landen (c. 1506), printed and published in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch.
Title page of Van der nieuwer werelt (ca. 1507)
Title page of Die reyse van Lissebone (1508)
Printer's device from the Oorspronck (c. 1517) of Jan van Doesborch, depicting a throne room with sovereign, attendants, enclosed by an elaborate ornamental border
Title page of The noble lyfe & natures of man, circa 1521
Title page of Tdal sonder wederkeeren, 1528
Title page of Der vrouwen natuere ende complexie, 1531

Published in Antwerp:

  • Vijfthien vreesselijke teekenen (ca. 1502)
  • Valuacyon of golde and sylver of 1499 (ca. 1503)
  • The fifteen tokens (ca. 1503) | EEBO-TCP transcription
  • [Van den leven ende voerganc des [...] Antekerst (ca. 1504)]
  • Die historie van Buevijne van Austoen (1504)
  • Van pape Jans landen (ca. 1506) | Digital copy at Google Books
  • Van den ghedinghe tusschen eenen coopman ende eenen jode (ca. 1505 - 1510)
  • Van der nieuwer werelt (ca. 1507) | Digital copy at Wikimedia
  • Distructie van Troyen (before dec. 1508)
  • Die reyse van Lissebone (1508) | Digital copy at Archive.org
  • Long accidence (Latin grammar book, ca. 1509)
  • [De novo mondo (broadsheet, ca. 1510) | Digital copy of 1927 edition at Delpher
  • Of the newe landes (ca. 1510 - 1511) | EEBO-TCP transcription
  • Dat regiment der ghesontheyt (ca. 1510)
  • Die [...] cronijke van Brabant, Hollant, Seelant, Vlaenderen (oct. 1512)
  • [Ulenspiegel (1511–1516)]
  • [Howleglas (1511–1518)]
  • [Merlijn (1511–1515)]
  • Historie van den ridder metter swane (ca. 1512 – 1515)
  • [Historie van Mariken van Nieumeghen (before 1515)]
  • Pronosticacion of the yere 1516 (1515)
  • Short accidence (Latin grammar book, ca. 1515)
  • [Broeder Russche (ca. 1516)]
  • [Friar Rusch (ca. 1516)]
  • [Alexander van Mets (ca. 1516)]
  • Tghevecht van minnen (1516) | Digital copy at Dutch Library
  • Den oorspronck onser salicheyt (1517) | Digital copy at Google Books
  • Causes that be proponed in a consultacyon of a journey to be made agaynst the Turkes (1517)
  • [Van Floris ende Blancefloer] (ca. 1517)
  • [De negen dronkaards (1517–1523)]
  • Thuys der fortunen ende dat huys der doot (1518)
  • Die [...] cronike van Brabant, Vlaenderen, Hollant, Zeelant (1518)
  • [Frederick van Jenuen (1518)]
  • Story of Lorde Frederycke of Jennen (1518)
  • Copy of the letter etc. (1518)
  • [Een nyeu seer schoon ende profitelijck plantboecxken (ca. 1518)]
  • [Virgilius, Van zijn leven ende doot (ca. 1518)]
  • Virgilius. Of the lyfe of Virgilius and of his deth (ca. 1518)
  • Story of Mary of Nemmegen (ca. 1518)
  • Die bibele int corte (ca. 1518 – 1519)
  • [Den groten herbarius (ca. 1518 – 1520)]
  • Der dieren palleys (1520) | Digital copy at Google Books
  • The noble lyfe and natures of man (ca. 1521) | Digital copy at the Wellcome Library
  • [De pastoor van Kalenberg (ca. 1521)]
  • The parson of Kalenborowe (ca. 1521)
  • [Profetie sibille van Tiburtina (ca. 1521 – 1522)]
  • Van Jason ende Hercules (1521)
  • Die historie van den stercken Hercules (1521)
  • Warachtighe prognosticatie... totten jare 1524 (1522)
  • [Dat hantwerck der cirurgien (before 1525)]
  • [Die distellacien ende virtuyten der wateren (before 1527)
  • Der .ix. quaesten (1528)
  • Tdal sonder wederkeeren (1528) van Colijn Caillieu
  • [Dat bedroch der vrouwen] (ca. 1528 – 1530)]
  • [The deceyte of women (ca. 1528 – 1530)]
  • [Het bedrog der mannen (na 1528)]
  • Refreynen (ca. 1529) | Digital copy of 1939 reprint at Delpher
  • Van Brabant die excellente cronike (1530) | Digital copy at the Wellcome Library
  • Cronycke van Hollandt, Zeeland, ende Vrieslant (1530)

Published in Utrecht:

Further reading

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  • Besamusca, Bart. "Tekst en beeld in Twee drukken van Jan van Doesborch: Van Jason ende Hercules en Die historie van den stercken Hercules". Spiegel der Letteren, 59.1 (2017): 1–34.
  • Besamusca, Bart. "Raoul Lefèvre in Dutch: Two 1521 Editions of the Antwerp Printer Jan van Doesborch". Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 20 (2017): 219–335.
  • Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch: The Antwerp Connection". Quærendo 47 (2017): 278–306.
  • Franssen, Piet. "Jan van Doesborch en The dialoges of creatures moralysed". Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, Volume 28.1 (Aug 2021): 143–168. Link
  • Franssen, Piet. "Jan Van Doesborch and the History of Euryalus and Lucretia". Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (May 2019): 216–240. DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2019.1617182. Link
  • "Jan van Doesborch". The Oxford Companion to the Book. Eds. Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Link
  • Maslen, R. "The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch". Bayer, G. and Klitgård, E. (eds.) Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (11). Routledge: New York, 2011. Pages 136–157.
  • Proctor, Robert. Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1894. At Archive.org.
  • Schlusemann, Rita. "Coöperatie en inspiratie van drukkeruitgevers in Antwerpen in de Tijd van mediaverandering". Scandinavian Philology, 17.2 (2019): 381–396. Link
  • Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. "Utrecht, Jan van Doesborch, 1532". In: Vervliet, H.D.L. (eds). Post-Incunabula and Their Publishers in the Low Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-4814-8_97. Link

References

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  1. ^ Suarez, Michael F., ed. (2010). "Jan van Doesborch". The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^ Maslen, R. (2011). "The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.". Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. New York: Routledge. pp. 136–157.
  4. ^ Fortunaso, Robert (2023-01-30). "Jan van Doesborch". Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  5. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society.
  6. ^ Proctor, Robert G. C. (1892). "Jan van Doesborgh". The Library. 1–4 (1): 208–215.
  7. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. p. 5.
  8. ^ Fortunaso, Robert (2023-01-30). "Jan van Doesborch". Robin Hood - The Facts and the Fiction. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  9. ^ Proctor, Robert G. C. (1892). "Jan van Doesborgh". The Library. 1–4 (1): 209.
  10. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. p. 6.
  11. ^ Franssen, Piet (2023-01-30). "The World of Jan van Doesborch". Jan Van Doesborch. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  12. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. p. 8.
  13. ^ Maslen, R. (2011). "The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch.". Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. New York: Routledge. p. 136.
  14. ^ Parsons, Ben (2007). "Dutch Influences on English Literary Culture in the Early Renaissance, 1470-1650". Literature Compass. 4 (6): 1581. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00497.x. hdl:2381/29105.
  15. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. pp. 21–32.
  16. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. p. 9.
  17. ^ Franssen, Piet (1990). Tussen tekst en publiek: Jan van Doesborch, drukker-uitgever en literator te Antwerpen en Utrecht in de eerste helft van de zestiende eeuw. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 47–48.
  18. ^ Proctor, Robert (1894). Jan van Doesborgh, printer at Antwerp. An essay in bibliography. London: The Bibliographical Society. pp. 19–37.
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