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Abstract
The development of the moveable-type press in the mid-fifteenth century led to the rise of a new industry, the manufacture and trade of printed books. Before this, written works existed as handwritten manuscripts individually produced by scribes.
The printing press allowed works such as the Malleus maleficarum and Fasciculus temporum contained within Portland State University’s codex to be produced in a significantly more efficient manner. The printers of the two volumes contained in the codex, Peter Drach and Johann Prüss, successfully avoided the pitfalls facing early printers to become successful in their trade, and may have actively cooperated in the production of the codex.
Publication Date
2020
Subjects
Incunabula, Provenance, Printing, History of the Book
Disciplines
Book and Paper | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34789
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Jonathan, "Drach, Prüss, and the Fifteenth-Century Book Trade" (2020). Extra-Textual Elements. 6.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34789
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Comments
This essay is part of a series of research projects written for Professor John Ott's Spring 2020 Medieval History seminar on PSU Library Special Collections' Malleus maleficarum and Fasciculus temporum codex.
Thumbnail photo of the codex by So-Min Kang.