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Reynier Velpen van Diest. He obtained on 4 November 1546 and 5 October 1547 patents that permitted him to print and sell books. These patents apparently did not extend to bookbinding. It looks very much as if Jacob Bathen was one of the two bookbinders or booksellers who stamped their bindings with the Spes plate stamp. Possibly the lines of the IB monogram form the initials of Bathen's name.
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218:, first of all because of the place where it was published. The title page shows in the background a panorama of some landmarks of Maastricht and includes the city arms with a single star hanging from a tree branch. The publication groups polyphonic Dutch songs by various composers, of whom some were famous in their time such as
110:, Leuven, 1547. This was the first musical edition of Phalesius and the first collection of scores for lute in the Low Countries. In addition to music scores, Bathen printed official publications and religious pamphlets, some of which were published by Petrus Phalesius and Martinus de Raymaker (known as 'Martinus Rotarius').
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Maastricht Bathen was still not able to thrive as a printer and bookseller. At the end of 1554 or the beginning of 1555 he moved his business to Düsseldorf to become a printer at the court of the Duke of Jülich, Willem V van Kleef. Here he was the first publisher of polyphonic songs. In 1555-1556
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Little is known about the early life of Jacob Bathen as many of the Leuven city records relating to the period of his life in Leuven have been lost. It is believed that he was born in Leuven in or before 1516. He parents were Arnold Bathen and Marie
Stroots. He had two brothers named Johan or Jan
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The
Maastricht Songbook contains music by a number of local composers. Eight compositions are by Ludovicus Episcopius and these are the only ones in five, six and eight parts. Other composers chose were working in other locations in the Netherlands, including Jacobus Clemens non Papa in Bruges who
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Pierken Jordain who also had works included in the publication remain fairly unknown otherwise and it is not known where they worked. The soprano part in the five part books has been lost. It has been possible to recover the soprano part for some songs as they were also included in Phalesius'
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In the end Bathen's business did not fare better in Düsseldorf. Jacob Bathen returned before 1558 to his parental home near
Heverlee possibly travelling via Cologne where his brother Johan is believed to have been active as a printer at the time. In 1558 Johannes Oridryus and his cousin Albertus
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Katrien van den Berghe with whom he had at least six children. The competition in the Leuven printing market was fierce and to cope with it some printers partnered up with one another. The difficulty to make ends meet likely forced Jacob Bathen to leave Leuven at the end of 1551 or
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Bathen trained in the art of printing, most likely with a printer based in
Louvain, who may have been Servaas van Sassen (also called Servatius Sassenus). He may also have worked for some time as a corrector or proofreader at this printing press. He started out as a printer for his own account in
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One of the principal reasons why the publication is relevant for music history is that the songs collected in it were in the Dutch language. The compositions in The
Maastricht Songbook used the standard written Dutch that was common at that time. At the time of publication, secular music for the
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A total of 57 publications have been ascribed to the printing press of Bathen. While Bathen's speciality was certainly the printing of musical works with musical notation such as staves and tablature for the lute, his press also printed ordinances and decrees for both religious and government
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Maastricht Songbook was most likely used for entertainment by the upper and middle class of that time. The prevalent theme of the songs is love, and in particular the May songs which describe how the blooming and awakening of spring makes the blood of lovers race. In the song
268:(1556–57) and the four-part Souterliedekens by Gerardus Mes (1561), both published in four volumes. Susato's initiative was taken up by other Flemish publishers the first of whom was Jacob Bathen with The Maastricht Songbook of 1554. Phalesius would follow in Leuven in 1572 with
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Buysius continued Bathen's printing business in Düsseldorf. It was in particular Oridyrus who ensured that Bathen's music printing materials were put to good use. Oridyrus and Buysius, among others, published another fifty psalms (Souterliedekens), set to music by
252:. Susato launched an appeal to Flemish and Dutch-speaking composers to create songs in their mother tongue in order to show that native language music was not inferior to that made with French, Latin or Italian lyrics. Susato issued his appeal in his
450:, ‘’Lamentationes aliquot Ieremiæ Musicæ Harmoniæ nouiter adaptatæ, adiectis aliquot sacris cantionibus, Trium, Quatuor, Quinque, & Sex vocum ... Acuta Vox. (Contratenor.) (Tenor.) (Basis.) (Quinta et Sexta Pars.)’’ Maastricht, Jacob Bathen, 1554
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Johannes Oridryus, ‘’Practicae Musicae utriusque praecepta brevia eorumque exercitia valde commoda ex optimorum musicorum libris ea dumtaxat, quae hodie in usu sunt, studiose collecta‘’, Düsseldorf, Jacobus Bathenius excudebat,
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Minervalia Ioan. Gvidonii in quibus scientiæ præconium atque ignorantiæ socordia consideratur. Artium liberalium in musicen decertatio lepida appingitur: et etiam iuuentuti ad virtutem calcar proponitur
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De veritate corporis et sangvinis Domini nostri Iesv Christi in evcharistiae sacramento, cum refutatione diuersarum circa hoc...
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Van den warmen baden, ende in sunderheyt den genen die tot Aken sijn, wat crachte dat sy hebben, en wie mansie ghebruycken...
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De dispvtatione inter disceptantes, dialecticè instituenda, libellus. Cuius maxime & propè necessarius vsus est Prætereà
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Actorum colloqvii Ratisponensis vltimi, quomodo inchoatum, ac desertum, quæq in eodem extemporali oratione inter partes…
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