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May '80
Madliger - Schwab
60 SF= $36.80
Biblia (German)
Nuremberg : Johann Sensenschmidt & Andreas Frisher
about 1476 . Der Zal LXiii Old Testament : Numbers 23, 24
Goff B628 H 3132 BMC II 408 GW 4299 .
Cop HEHL II (-) , NYPL 5th German Bible .
folio , 514 leaves , the 1st blank , leaves 3 - 410 (end of
Old Testament ) numbered - errors, iij - ccccviij ; leaves 411- 514,
j - Ciiij . 2 col. 57 lines & headlines . 285(294) x 189 mm
Type 99 with a woodcut at the beginning of Genesis &
pictoral capitals to the other books; spaces left for
smaller capitals.
- a smaller type of the same character as 110 , - which it is used for commentaries.
The paragraph mark is of the full height of the type .used 1475 & 76.
See # 69 - Sensenschmidt - 4 stages may be distinguished in the history
of this press (4)- worked - Andreas Frisher - the 1st fruits
were the Quodlibeta of S. Thomas Aquinas completed
15 April 1474.
- a native of Eger . If he had not himself learned the art of
printing in Fust & Schoeffers press in Mainz - which seems very
probable - his close connection - Heinrich Kefer who had
already [crossed out] [illegible] [end crossed out] worked as an assistant in J. Gutenbergs
press would lead us to expect the influence of Mainz in
his work . But in the design of his types he is remarkably
independent.
- From 1428 till 21 May 1491 he was in partnership - Heinrich
Petzensteiner , though in 1485 in company - Johann Beckenhub,
he printed at Regensburg a missal of that use , & the 1487
Frisingen Missal bears his name alone. Soon after 1491 he must
have died.
Senenschmidt & frisher - the partnership lasted until , or after
18 Feb 1478 & produced some 20 books including 2 Latin & - German
Bible & several law books.
Sensenschmidt was the 1st printer in nuremburg - he began
printing in that city c.1470.