Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Albertus Pafraet (c.14-- – c. 155-) was born in Deventer to Richard Pafraet, one of the first printers in the city. By 1511 he took over his father's press and continued to work on similar types of commissions, mainly religious texts and collections of contemporary literature. Among the writers and theologians whose work Pafraet printed regularly are Johannes Sylvanus, David Joris, Johannes Murmellius, and Battista Spagnoli. Notably, he printed several volumes of Virgil's Aeneid in 1524. Until his retirement in approximately 1551, Pafraet produced more than three hundred books.This mark is a direct adaptation of the mark employed by Pafraet's father. To the original rectangular design, forming directionally opposite two enclosures, Pafraet added his initials, A.P. The full version of Pafraet's own device showed this mark on a shield presented by two rearing lions in a dense thicket; beneath this scene is a scroll containing the printer's name.