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J. Mentel, born in Schlettstadt prob. about the year 1410, moved to
Strassburg by 1447. Evidently he began printing at Strassburg in 1458
Mantel has been characterized as the 1st professor of the new
art of printing who catered deliberately to the laity. Among his other
activities was service as notary for Bishop Ruprecht of Strassburg
for a period of time until 1468. He died in Dec. 12, 1478.

Haebler The Type is the last one Mentelin cut. It is an attempt
to combine the roman Type which Mentelin's son in law
A. Rush had tried to introduce into printing as early as
1464, with gothic type which in design + legibility gives
almost complete satisfaction.
- reflected, as in a mirror "whatever has been made or done or said
in the visible + invisible world from the beginning until the end, +
also of things to come".
- one of the earliest books printed in German to use Roman types.
Type 107 - a lighter substitute for 112c, still more roman in
character.
HEHL Vol. I Book 1-8 Book 9 has cxxxviii capitula
Vol II Book 9 -
leaf 7 (mine)
rubricated in red (has correct large initial I (XV)
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