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Strassburg: R Press type I (? J. Mentelin and/or Adolf
Rusch).

No date earlier than 1473 is known for any (Goff)
edition from this press. The R-Press's Latin Bible
+ other Royal folios contain several paper stocks which
cannot be taken back earlier than about 1473.
Thus, R-Press tyep 1 is not the first roman, nor
even the first roman in Germany (being preceded
by Gunther Zainer's 3:107 R, which existed by the
end of 1471; and by the Lauingen printer's type, 1472
(Goff A-1224) The identification of the R Printer as A.
Rusch is based on a letter from the city council of Mentelin +
his son in law Rusch as printers of a Vincent of Beauvais
Speculum Doctrinale (Goff V 278). But that letter a)
applies to R-Press type 2, used 1475-78, but not
necessarily to type 1, used 1473-75; b) does not establish
Rusch as a printer independent of Mentelin.