Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law will he exercise himself day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the water-side that will bring forth his fruit in due season.
Herbarius
Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer (c. 1425 in Gernsheim, Groß-Gerau - 1503 Mainz) was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender. Gernsheim is a town in Groß-Gerau district and Darmstadt region in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Rhine. Groß-Gerau is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Hesse ( Hessen in German Germany. Mainz (ˈmaɪ̯nʦ (Mayence is a City in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( 1398 &ndash February 3, 1468) was a German Goldsmith and printer who is credited Johann Fust (c1400 - October 30 1466) was an early German printer. [1]
Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal workman of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of Western typography, whose 42-Line Bible was completed in 1455. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( 1398 &ndash February 3, 1468) was a German Goldsmith and printer who is credited Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety In 1455 he testified for Johann Fust against Gutenberg. By 1457 he and Fust had formed the firm Fust and Schöffer, after the foreclosure of the mortgage on Gutenberg's printing workshop. [2]
Famous works include the Latin Psalter of 1457, Cicero's De officiis (1465), and Herbarius - Rogatu plurimorum. . . (1484), usually referred to as the "Herbarius latinus". The Herbarius was compiled from older sources and was popular enough to go through ten reprints before 1499. It illustrates and describes 150 plants and 96 medicines commonly found in apothecaries. There is reason to believe that Schöffer himself commissioned the compilation, although the name of the compiler is not recorded. Schöffer is considered the author of many innovations such as dating books, introducing the printer's device and Greek characters in print, developing the basics of punchcutting and type-founding, and using colored inks in print. A type foundry is a Company that designs and/or distributes Typefaces Originally type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and After going into business on his own, Schöffer confined his publishing to works on theology, and civil and ecclesiastic law.
Schöffer married Fust's only daughter, Christina, and his sons also entered the printer's trade. [3] His son John carried on as printer between 1503 and 1531, was competent, but did not rank with the top printers of that time. Another son, Peter the younger, was an able die-cutter and printer, and conducted business in Mainz (1509-23), Worms (1512-29), Strasburg (1530-39) and Venice (1541-42). Mainz (ˈmaɪ̯nʦ (Mayence is a City in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Worms (voɐms is a City in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Peter the younger's son Ivo, continued the printing business at Mainz (1531-55). [4]
References
- ^ Johann Fust - FREE Johann Fust Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
- ^ Schoeffer exhibition, 2003
- ^ Peter Schoeffer Biography
- ^ "Peter Schöffer". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006
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