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Flemish bookseller, printer and publisher

Peeter van der Phaliesen, Latinised as Petrus Phalesius, French versions of name Pierre Phalèse and Pierre de Phaleys^[1][2] (c. 1510 – c. 1575) was a Flemish bookseller, printer and publisher.

Aside from a number of literary and scientific works, his printing press is mainly known for its publications of music.

Branle de la Torche – Pierre Phalèse (1570) - Tablature

Phalesius was the principal publisher of music active in the sixteenth-century Low Countries.^[3]

Life

Petrus Phalesius was born in Leuven about 1510. His original name was Peeter (or Pieter) van der Phaliesen.^[4][5] Phalesius started a bookseller business in 1545 and soon set up a publishing house.^[3]

Phalesius at first outsourced the printing of his books to other printers such as Jacob Bathen, Servaas van Sassen and Reynier Velpen.^[1] After obtaining a printing patent in 1552, he established himself as an independent p Pierre Phalèse (c.

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