Peter Schöffer
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Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer 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 g
Peter Schöffer
Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen
Mainz Psalter
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The Mainz Psalter was the second major book printed with movable type in the West; the first was the Gutenberg Bible. It is a psalter commissioned by the Mainz archbishop in 1457. The Psalter introduc
Peter Schöffer
…before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender. Among his best-known works are the 1457 Mainz Psalter, the 1462 Bible or Biblia pulcra, and the 1484 Herbarius latinus. Schöffer was born in Gernsheim. Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal workman…
Opening (Royal Collection)
From the 1459 second edition : with an illuminated letter
The Mainz Psalter (1457) of George III, rebound in 1800
Printer's mark of Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer