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Subject(s)

• Gothic type—Specimens [Browse]
• Printing—Specimens [Browse]
• Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500 [Browse]

Related name

• Kachelofen, Konrad, -1528 or 1529 [Browse]

Printer

• Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549 [Browse]

Contained in

Multi-title collection including Ars minor [fragment] and 3 other(s).

Notes

• This specimen is one parchment leaf of an edition of the Ars minor surviving only in this and two other fragments. The 28-line pages are set in Gothic type, 165 mm to 20 lines. According to Bruce McKittrick, "The text preserved here is Schwenke's Cap. 1 line 1 to Cap. 5 line 8. The sheet served as binding reinforcement (pastedowns and spine with tiny stitching holes for the headbands)" for a small book (16 x 10 cm.).
• In clamshell box with fragments of three other editions of the Ars minor.

References

• Haebler, K. Typenrepertorium, I, 54, 57.
• Schwenke, P. Donat- und Kalender-Type.
• GW 8923?

In

Multi-title collection including Ars minor [fragment] and 3 other(s).

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