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- R. Pafraet - a native of Cologne, who settled at
Deventer in 1477, where he became the 1st printer.
As printer's device he adopted the image of St.
Lebuin (d. c. 780) the Irish or Scottish missionary
woh Christianized the region around Deventer + built
a church there.
- 1st book from his 2nd press, 9 Aug. 1488. His
activity continued thereafter until 1511.
HEHL #801 100
Gemma Vocabulorum. Antwerp: Thierry Martens,
20 Sept. 1494. 4° Goff V-331 Camp. 780.
Add: Propria nomina ex Johanne Tortellio
letters A → Z -(a few words match my leaf #503,
under L.) my leaf #511
marginal letters the same as →

- the most prolific Dutch press of the 15th C. Although Deventer
at the time belonged culturally to the area now known as North
Rhine - Westphalia, the two first printers there, R. Pafraet + his
successor Jacob van Breda, turned to the vast market in the west,
in the need of school-books + the more popular classical authors.
(Together the two are estimated to have produced 1/2 of all 15th C
Latin grammers printed in Holland before 1501).
Pafraet's 1st press was active from 1477 to 1485. For unknown
reasons possibly connected c the establishment of van Breda as
printer + publisher, Pafraet ceased printing for 3 years, resuming
in 1488 c an entirely different stock of type.