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(c 1422-1491)
William Caxton is thought to have learned the craft of printing
from Ulrich Zell, a priest from Mainz who had established
Cologne's 1st press (produced no less than 120 titles)

At Cologne printing had begun early - some time before 1466 c U. Zell.
Zell printed in an excellent eventype mostly quarto volumes of
practical use to priests. A local rival to Zell rose in Arnold
[inserted] printed over 90 books [end inserted] ther Hoernen who used pagination for the 1st time in printing history
BMC In 1464 Urich Zel of Hanau, Clerk of the diocese of Mainz,
matriculated in the Univ. of Cologne. In 1466 he published an
edition, signed & dated, of S. Chrysostom's Super psalmum
Miserere. Zel continued working to the end of the century, & is
believed to have died in soon after 1507. (d. 1501)

Type 96 - text type, recast after 1467 on a body measuring 99,
leaded to 106-111. At first the h is round, then between 1467 &
1469, a tailed h was introduced & mixed [with]the former; in 1472 I
from Type 113 begins to be mixed [with] that of this type.

Haebler - Zell - learned the act of printing in Fust & Schoeffers printing
office - each of his earlier 3 Types contains far more than
200 sorts as, for all possible abbreviations & ligatures, special
forms had been cut.

Cologne - the most populous town of medieval Germany - nearly all the
books published were [inserted] vernacular printing did not flourish in
this district of Germany. [end inserted] in Latin - more than half were theological writings
- hostility of the university teachers to humanistic learning.

Ulrich Zel - some 200 books to his credit - seldom produced large
folio volumes, but made a specialty of small quartos dealing
in the main & minor theological works & sermons.

- a student of the Univ. of Cologne, who established the 1st press there
by 1466; Cologne thus became the 4th European city to have a
printing press.

A summary of Theology in the Divine Attributes or Virtues & Vices.