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    Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, (born around 1410 in Schlettstadt, today Sélestat; died December 12, 1478, in Strasbourg) was a pioneering...
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  • the fifteenth century. In 1466, before Martin Luther was even born, Johannes Mentelin printed the Mentel Bible, a High German vernacular Bible, at Strasbourg...
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  • (Italy). 1410: Enguerrand Quarton – French painter (died 1466) 1410: Johannes Mentelin – German calligrapher, book scribe and printmaker (died 1478) 1410:...
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  • "L'édition princeps des lettres de saint Augustin parue à Strasbourg chez Mentelin vers 1471". Sacris Erudiri (in French). 34: 33–58. doi:10.1484/J.SE.2.303789...
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    needed] Other printers of incunabula were Günther Zainer of Augsburg, Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein of Strasbourg, Heinrich Gran of Haguenau, Johann...
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    centres of the printing industry with pioneers such as Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes Mentelin, and Heinrich Eggestein. Among the darkest periods in the...
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    (illustration, right). His Postilla super totam Bibliam was published by Johannes Mentelin of Strasbourg in 1472. Nicolas of Lyra's approach to explicating Scripture...
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    hometown Mainz were established around 1460 in Strasbourg by pioneers Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein. Subsequently, the first modern newspaper was...
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    later; also spelled Eckstein or Eggesteyn) is considered, along with Johannes Mentelin, to be the earliest book printer in Strasbourg and therefore one of...
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    Eugène Koeberlé, French surgeon Heinrich Kramer, German inquisitor Johannes Mentelin, German printer Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist Charles Sitzenstuhl...
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    dialects. In 1466, Johannes Mentelin published the first printed vernacular Bible, the Mentelin Bible in Middle High German. The Mentelin Bible was reprinted...
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  • believed to be before September 1465. 1465–1470 Augustinus, Confessiones Johannes Mentelin Strasbourg The second edition came out in Milan in 1475, followed...
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    press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. Western printing technology was adopted...
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  • 1488[citation needed] he married Salome Mentelin, a daughter of the well-known Straßburg printer Johannes Mentelin, in whose printing shop he assisted. He...
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  • Machiavelli – Italian early Renaissance painter (died 1418) 1478: Johannes Mentelin - German calligrapher, book scribe, and printmaker (born 1410) 1478/1481:...
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    Strasbourg around 1480; his mother was one of the children of printer Johannes Mentelin. Johannes attended university in Freiburg (in 1490, at age 13), in Heidelberg...
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  • Cathedral finished. 1440s – Johannes Gutenberg develops printing technique. 1444 – Population: circa 20,000 1458 – Johannes Mentelin opens print shop (approximate...
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    painter and goldsmith in that town. He probably learnt to print from Johannes Mentelin. In 1468 he began to print in Augsburg. In 1472 he was a burger of...
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    Haguenau) was a German book printer of the incunabular era. Together with Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein, he was one of the pioneers of book-printing...
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    intact. Other large libraries, such as those of Erasmus von Rotterdam or Johannes Reuchlin, were scattered after the deaths of their owners. The Library...
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  • Strasbourg at the end of the 1460s by Johannes Mentelin, Lyons 1519; Rome 1728-30. Summa de casibus conscientiae. Johann Mentelin, Straßburg not after 1469 digital...
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    father's interest, and his marriage to a daughter of the printer Johannes Mentelin, may have led him to become a printer. He did not inherit his father...
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    translation to his own doctrine. Two of the earlier translations were the Mentelin Bible (1456) and the Koberger Bible (1484). There were as many as fourteen...
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    versions. One previous word-for-word translation from 1350, printed by Johann Mentelin in 1466, has been called linguistically clumsy and partially incomprehensible...
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    Gutenberg Bible (category Johannes Gutenberg)
    provided the model for several later editions, including the 36 Line Bible, Mentelin's Latin Bible, and the first and third Eggestein Bibles. The third Eggestein...
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     1 (2 ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 63. Retrieved 4 December 2023. Mentelin, the first Strassburg printer, used a gothic type which pointed towards...
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  •  153–154. Beauvais, Vincent de (1473). Speculum historiale (in Latin). Jean Mentelin. Burlaeus, Gualterus; Knust, Hermann (1886). Gualteri Burlaei liber De...
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  • Gutenberg Bible. His invention quickly spread throughout Europe. In 1466 the Mentelin Bible was the first vernacular language Bible to be printed. It was a word-for-word...
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  • when Constantine II of Georgia has to recognize his rival monarchies. The Mentelin Bible, the first printed German language Bible, is produced. Louis XI of...
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