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Johannes Mentelin. Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, (born around 1410 in Schlettstadt, today Sélestat; died December 12, 1478 in Strasbourg) was a pioneering German book printer and bookseller active during the period during which incunabula were printed. In 1466, he published the first printed Bible in the German language ...
The business was carried on by his son-in-law Adolf Rusch, and afterwards by Johann Priiss. Although Mentelin cannot be reckoned the inventor of the art of printing books, as his grandson Johann Schott claimed in 1521, he was nevertheless one of the most skillful of the early typographers. HEINRICH WILH. WALLAU
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Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — all for only $19.99... (MENTEL) Born c. 1410; died 12 Dec., 1478; an eminent German typographer of the fifteenth century, and the first printer and bookseller at Strasburg (Alsace). He belonged to a respected family at Schlettstadt.
Johannes Mentelin. (MENTEL) Born c. 1410; died 12 Dec., 1478; an eminent German typographer of the fifteenth century, and the first printer and bookseller at Strasburg (Alsace). He belonged to a respected family at Schlettstadt. After 1447 he was a "gold-schreiber" (illuminator) at Strasburg, where he became a burgess and member of the painters ...
Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, (born around 1410 in Schlettstadt, today Sélestat; died December 12, 1478 in Strasbourg) was a pioneering German book printer and bookseller active during the period during which incunabula were printed. In 1466, he published the first printed Bible in the German language, the Mentelin Bible.
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[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, before 27 June 1466]. (06164) Johannes Mentelin (c. 1410–1478), the first printer outside of Gutenberg’s Mainz to use moveable type, produced a Latin Bible in Strasbourg in 1460. His third book, the German Bible exhibited here, was the first edition of the Bible printed in any language other than Latin.
Nicholas of Lyra ( French: Nicolas de Lyre; c. 1270 – October 1349), or Nicolaus Lyranus, a Franciscan teacher, was among the most influential practitioners of biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages. Little is known about his youth, aside from the fact of his birth, around 1270, in Lyre, Normandy .
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