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8th German Bible, Augsburg: Anton Sorg 1480
See #193 the 10th J. Gruminger - Strassburg - 1485.
See #341 11th H. Schonsperger - Augsburg - 1487
12th '' '' -1490
Same Type as #3 13 H Otman '' 1507 See #216
14 S. Otman '' 1518 See #417
These 5 bibles contain woodcuts like those in the
Kobuger Bible but reproduced in smaller size
-in the 56 yrs between 1466 + 1522 Walther
enumerates 18 editions if the Bible (14 in High German
24 in how German) + 22 of the Psalter.

did in 1520 Schonsperger breaks to the Augsburg tradition of setting
popular books is specially large + heavy types. His minuscules
are still those German torm to a plain "a" + to descendes
for the f + s. J. Zainer gave his lower case letters the
Latin form + his Type is still somewhat heavy in
proportion to its body. Clearly, however, to this type
Schonsperger intended to reduce his standard type to a
middle size; corresponding to this he used a special
heavy type. But this latter is not a type he made, but
a copy of one of Anton Sorg's.

Luther by taking his written forms from the official language
of the Chancery of Saxony + his vocabulary from that
of the common people of that area gave them such
comency that by the 17 C they had become the
standard literary language for all the German
speaking peoples

Total number of leaves 1010. Schonsperger's 2nd ed of the Bible
has the distinction of being the 1st German Bible to have
a title page. In this Schonsperger + in the H. Otman +
S. Otman Bibles the title page is repeated for each of the 2
may or divisions to the appropriate designations "first part" +