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Peter Drach the younger was a wealthy and respected
citzen of Speier who several times filled high offices.
At the beginning of the 16th C he transferred his domicile
and printing office to Worms where he died about 1505.
He printed practically nothing but Latin books.
Type 11, 12. [insert] Haebler plate 77 [end insert] With the text type of the Bible we have to
deal with a [?fount?] which M. Wenssler especially had long
favored; the style of this type prevailed principally
in Strassbourg. Drach's type shows a great
similitude to one of J. Pruss's as well as to one of
Wenssler's; it is hardly possible to decide which of
these two types he took as a model. At any rate this
type is used by Wenssler a year (1485) before Drach
and Pruss had it.
Latin Bible. Basel, J. Amenback, 1481. - 2nd of the so called
"Fontibus ex Graecis" [insert] group of 9 connected Latin Bibles probably from 5 printers but all curiously without location on printer named. [end insert] [insert] from the opening words of the Latin distiche found in them. [end insert] ed, named after the distichs
printed at the end of the Apocalypse. This group of
Latin Bibles, claimed with good reason, to be superior in text
to other contemporary ed.
Latin Bible. Lyon, M. Reinhart and N. Philippi, 1482 - The 2nd
Bible printed at Lyon and The 3rd printed in France. It is
one of the so called Fontibus ex Graecis [?Hebracorum?]"
ed. following J. Amerbach's 1st of 1479 in providing a
scholarly superior text (cf. distich at end of Apocalypse)
HEHL
(84883)
Rubricated in red. my leaf AA^6 (of 8)
[?hominum?] [?hebnaicorum?] - begins AA^1
follows the Apocalypsis ends EE^8 (end of volume)