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greater part of his limited activity as a pritner.
Only in a few books did he use together with this
type a heading type which seems to have been based
on Ulrich Han's gothic text type. C. Arnold was a
native of the Duchy of Prussia + possibly was an
assistant in Christoph Valdarfer's printing office.
In 1472 he opened a printing office of his own in
Venice. During his 1st years he printed exclusively
with a roman type + from 1476 just as exclusively with
gothic types. The book bearing his signature
is dated 1479.
- Two recensions of the Compendium theologicae veritatis were
published in the 15th C. That with the more flowering explicit
printed in Nuremberg, Speyer, Cologne, Ulm, Deventer +
Strassburg treated the text as anonymous. That with the
breifer explicit, printed in Venice with several Lyons
reprints, attributed the text to ALbertus Magnus. The
extensive MSS tradition made further attributions to
Alexander de Hales, St. Bonaventura, Aegidius de Columna,
St. Thomas Aquinas + others. The tree author, Hugo
Ripelin of Strassburg (O.P. d. 1268.) was prior
of the Dominican convent of Strassburg.
Magnus - the most important observer of nature that the
middle Ages had yet produced, the greatest naturalist
since Pliny. His most valuable studies are perhaps
his botanical + zoological works.