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Johannes Melber (15th C). lexicographer from Gerolzhofen. [inserted] lived about 1483 [end inserted]
BMC I p 119 Goff M 464 Vocabularius Praedicantium, suis Variloquus
Strasburg - Johann Prüss - June 1, 1486.
Quanto, 236 leaves, 32 lines (145x83mm.)
copy HEHL Types 180, title & headings; 90 text.
2 to 7 line spaces left for capitals H. 11040

- also same work - 1488 by Prüss (36 lines) 80, text type.
Johann Mentalin (d.1478) first Strasburg printer

Prüss (l'aine)- earliest known dated book is the Formulare of 1483 (H.7260)
- printer at Strasburg from 1480 to 1510 - originally from
Wertemberg - specialized in editions of popular works in
German - succeeded by his son of the same name who carried on until 1546

Type 90 - 2nd text type used in 1486-88. Used also by Peter Drach of Speier
180 - used also by Grunninger - by Drach.

Renaissance Theology - This preacher's guide was often used. It had
several incurabula editions.

1486 - Prüss printed the 1st Bible to a title page.
Norma Levarie p. 97 - Johann Prüss is another printer whose books, while lacking the
controlled beauty of Zainer's best books had often a votality of their own.
His 1488 edition of Bidper's Directorium humanae vite, a book of
ancient fables, is set in extremely fine, even, but black gothic
type whose letters is repeated in the cutting of the curious woodcuts.
(J. Prüss le jeune - printer 1511-1531)

p. 63 Vol IV A. Claudin Jean Prüss L'Ainé (1447-1510)
printer 1480-1510 -> pendant cette période il n'a pas fait
executrs moins de 654 bois
- son premier ouvrage daté Formulaire und Tutsch
Rhetorica parut en 1483.

Prüss became a citizen of Strasburg in 1490. He seems to have
been a Swabian from Herprechtstein who inarticulated in 1474*

Tannenbaum p. 114 Parentheses or "round brackette," were employed very early & with
remarkable frequency, especially in dramatic dialogue.

* at Ingolstadt & settled in Mentelin's Haus zum Tiergarten."