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Jean de Genes
(Joannes, Johannes) de Janna
Giff B23 (Balbi) Balbus, Giovanni from Genoa (Januensis, Dominican [inserted] comprises a Grammer [end inserted] (d. 1298) 13 C.
Catholicon Strassburg
[crossed out] (Georg Husher (Huszner) Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quadlinberg) [end crossed out]
[crossed out] 1482 (before Aug.) [end crossed out]

- the first printed secular book (Mainz) 1960 -> folio (373 pages)
[inserted] and a Medieval Dictionary [end inserted] partly treating the etymology of Latin terms used in the
Middle Ages, partly the rules of spelling, versification, conjugation,
declension, + style. - 1st book to name its place of printing
-24 editions were printed between 1460 + 1500 (Goff lists 15 ca 1475)
Strassburg: The R- Printer (Adolf Rusch) about 1470 f0
4th edition HC. 2251 Pr. 246 BMC I, 65 Pell 1699. Goff B 23.* GW. 3185
372 leaves, 2 columns 67 lines 333x210mm Type 100 Latin
One - to ten - Line spaces for capitals. Many printed guide letters
copies: 1.Huntington; 2. Univ. of Ill. Urbana; 3. Univ of N.C. Library, Chapel Hill, N.C.

GW 3184 [inserted] Goff B22 H 2253 Proctor 247 BMC I, 64 [end inserted] Strassburg: J Mentelin and The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch) about 1470 f0. [inserted] 65 lines, 400 leaves Type 100 [end inserted] 329x210mm
copies: 1.) Huntington 2.) Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Wash DC; 3.) Pierpont Morgan
(see lines 35 -> Type 100 R semi gothic / Type 103 R -> Roman text type with peculiar R from which the press in named
The anonymous printer whose nickname is derived from teh peculiar
majuscule R shown in the 1st line of the facsimile of type 103, is now
generally identified with Adolf Rusch of Ingweiler, who married
Johann Mentelin's daughter Sadoma, and succeeded Mentelin in his
business + was himself succeded by Martin Floch.
[Type 100 [inserted] 2nd type [end inserted] -> semi gothic, mostly, with some majuscules from Type 103]
During his father-in-laws activity, Rusch may have worked partly for
him, partly on his own account, + have taken over the business on
Mentelin's death in 1479, or before this if the later were previously
incapacitated by illness.
- "The 1st type face to be gully Roman is, I think the one that the R-Printer
was using at Strassburg by 1467" [inserted] both erroneous [end inserted] p. 47 Carter
- "1st Roman letter used in German -> 1464 Strassburg, R Printer, Rationale of Durandus"
- About 1478 his type 103 is supposed to have passed to Michael
Greyff of Reutlingen.
- biblia Latina (endated) type 103 H. 3034 - with 1473 about 1469 see fig. 35, 24 Carter x