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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

is a small quarto, and very beautifully printed, and well preserved. Sir Thomas Bodley had this in his library, which he presented to the iinirer- sity of Oxford ; where it is still kept. Dr. James published a catalofifue of all Sir Thomas's books, entitled CatalogusBibliotheca BocUeiana,ia qnai- to, 1605; in the 197th page of which book, we find this Tally's Offices, with the following in- scription, Ejusdem Liber de Officiis, ^c. 1465. About seventy years after this. Dr. Thomas Hyde published his catalogue of all the books in the University library, printed at Oxford, in folio, 1674, in which he gives the date of the book, page 162; which is the same wiUi the former, and confirmed by Antony Wood's History of that University, printed likewise 1674.

1462. Faust printed an edition of the German Bible, in 2 vols. fol. which is the first German Bible with a date; but the priority must be allowed to an edition without date, place, or printer's name, of which a copy is in Lord Spen- cer's library. There is also a copy of the latter in the Electoral Library at Munich, with two manuscript observations, the one of the date of 1467, bemg that of the illuminator, at the end of the Prophet Jeremiah ; die other is at the end of the Apocalypse, and contains a notice of the genealogical respectability of one Hector Mu- lich, and a memorandum to this effect, " 1466, 27th of June, this book was bought unbound for twelve guilders." Hector Mulich received a patent of nobility from the Emperor Ferdinand that same year. The author of^ this translation is unknown ; and Walchius remarks, that " there were several ancient versions all made from the Latin, but so obscure and barbarous as to be al- most unintelligible.

We have under the firm of Faust and Scho- effer, the Psalter of 1467, and a reprint of the same work in 1458. The Rationale Durandi, 1469. Cletnentit Papa Constitutiones, 1460. Biblia Latitta, 1462. Liber Sextus Decretalium, 1466. Cicero de Officiit, 1465, and a reprint of the same 1466, quarta die Menit Feoruarii. Faust's name appears for the last time to the Cicero de Officiis of 1466.

The device of Faust and Schoeffer consisted of two shields suspended to a bourii of a shield, on one of which were three stars. These shields are usually executed in red ; and first appeared in the German bible. The mark of the paper on which Faust and Schoeffer, printed many of their works, was the ox-head, sometimes with a star or a flower over it.

The following epigram, which is found in Gal Mandaeus, was wntten on the supposition, that the paper used by Faust was unilormly charac- terisied by having the figure of a bull's head as a water mark :

His dao d neslrs tenerla hnpressa papyri* Artiflctim Bigno TitaliDes corand bootis . Gruulia clwlcognpbia referunt miracnla Fausti Qol primns calamia libros tnnacripait altemls Atgne raa terris ndmin decus intidit arte

" The printing office of Faust and Schoeffer," says Fischer, " was established at a house called

Zum Heimhreeht or Heimerhof, in Coidminei'i. street, opposite the college of ue Coiddien, and lately of the Jesuits. That very house was erei recently called Drei Konigthof, fzora the name of a small chapel — ^where according to an andent tradition, the skulls of three Magicians weic deposited, having been carried in solemn Drocev sion, from Milan to Cologne." Faust's QeMtt- ment was that of the compositor, and Schoefiei's that of the pressman.

The date and cause of the dispersion of Faoa and Schoeffer's workmen, and the consequent spreading of the art of printing over thecontinent of Europe, have been already stated. The res- pective periods of its first introduction into the principal cities and towns, not only in Europe, but in every country where the press has shed its influence, and carried with it the blessings of civilization and liberty, together with such notices and anecdotes of its professors, as shall be inter- esting to the antiquary, and the lover of the typo- graphic art, have been diligently sought after.aad will be given with the utmost possible accuracy.

1462. Died John Geinsfliesb or Gdtek- BERo senior, one of the reputed authors of the art of printing. (See Gvteaberg, 1468. j

1462. Besides the several editions of tiieBiUti Pauparum, printed with woodblocks, there exist two in which the text is printed in moveable characters; one in the German, the other in

• The most remarluble books printed fttmi blodi witb fissures, ale these .

Specutum humancegalvationiM. 1408, 1473, \i^.—Fig%rt tupiea veteru atque aniiiypicte novi Teatamenti—teukitlaru Jetu Chriati m figurU. 1475. — Huioria sen Pnmdemtia Virginia Maria es Cantico Canticorum ieoniee akibitt. before 1472. — Faacieulat temporum. 147fi- — JHalcpuent- iurarum. 1480. — Art moriendi. — HUtoria 8. Jokamm EvamgeiUttt, tjutque vinonea Apocai]fpticm. — Art ammo. randi notabiUs per figuraa Eoangetittttrum. — Trudaimt ie AnHekritto.—Jo. Hartliebii Libetlut Chirowiantiau.—rtrim faiula etstmitihtdines. — Mediiafione* ReverendiMMimi PatHt Did, Johanntt de Turrecremata, fyc. Rome by Udalrle RatH, 1467, again in 1472, and by John NnmeisteT of Mayence 1573. Itemarkable for the singularity of the type, and wood cuts excellent for the time-—R96erU Vatturii Opus de Re Mititari. Veronse, a Joanne Cyro^ 1473. The wood cuts to this book are supposed to be done by Motteo Fasti or de Postis, a friend of Vsltnri's sod s ptdnter. He engraved some coins. Keyster calls these copper-plates; and therefore since Mantegna was only twenty-one years old when this book was printed; lie Till have it that the invention of engraving on copper-pistes, and printing from them, cannot be ascrlt>ed to him.

Other books with wood cuts ate : AtmruM Pelmu, Summa de planctu Ecclesis. 14_74. — A Bible printed at. Ao^bourg. 1477 i two others without place or date ; a fourth at Nuremberg, 1483 j a filth in 1490, both by Kobur- ger ) a sixth at Lubec ; also one printed at Venice, 1490.— Cojrton's Myrrour of 1480, is adorned with wood-cuts; ss is also his Golden Legend, of 1483 ; and his fnipe'i FsMa, of 1484.— A Herbal published in Germany, 1484.— flsrfci Sain'<>i, I486 and 1488. both at Angsbooig ; andatHeBtx, 1491, by Meydenbach or Medebach. — Sebastian Biaodt, bom 1458, published Sttdti Nmit ; or. The Ship of TmIm, with one hnndred wood cuts after Locher. The trst edition has no date, but is supposed to have tieen printed In I49e ; the second has the date, 1494. — Bora Beatae Jforic, I49S, also 1493 ; and again by Pliillppe Picboucbet, with adod- rable wood cuts, in 1500.

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