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Johannes Mentelin
Johannes Mentelin (or: Hans Mentelin, Hein Mentelin, Johann Mentelin, Johann Mentlin, Johann Mentelein, Jean Mentel, Jean Mentels, Iohannes Mentelius) was a printer and librarian. He was born in Schlettstadt (Selestat) ca. 1410 and died in Strasbourg in 1478. He lived in Strasbourg from 440 onwrds and started a print shop there in 1458. He printed one of the first bibles (now known as Mentelin's bible), only five years after Gutenberg. His types used in that bible inspired some metal typefaces centuries later. Mac McGrew writes: Satanick, issued by ATF in 1896, was called "the invention of John F. Cumming of Worcester, Massachusetts." It has also been credited to Joseph W. Phinney of ATF; probably Cumming cut it from Phinney's drawings. However, it was a close copy, though perhaps a little heavier, of the Troy and Chaucer types of William Morris. De Vinne called it "a crude amalgamation of Roman with Blackletter, which is said to have been modeled by Morris upon the style made by Mentel of Strasburg in or near the year 1470." See Morris Romanized Black. |
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file name: Johann Mentel Bibeltype 1466
file name: Johann Mentel Bibeltype 1466
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