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INDEX
Abbreviations, excessive use of, 164, 525
— of Bible of 36 lines, 414
Abecedarium of Enschedé, 289, 290
Accuracy in types, importance of, 52
Accursius Mariangelus, 256
Acta Diurna of old Rome, 44
Adolph, count of Nassau, 438
— his patronage of Gutenberg, 440
Æneas Sylvius, Pope Pius II, 287
Aix-la-Chapelle, fair of, 394
Aldus Manutius, 291, 503, 540
Amman Jost, the artist, 61
Anachronisms, 206, 211, 218, 497
Andrieszoon Jan, of Haarlem, 320
Annunciation, print of, 72
Antichrist, the block-book, 231
Antimony, probable use of, 66, 519
Antwerp, early type-printing at, 500
— first block-printer at, 314
Apocalypse of St. John, block-book, 210
— evidences of its age, 214
— prices paid for, 211
Apostles’ Creed, the block-book, 228
Appeal against the Turks, 410
Arabic figures, first use of, 526
Ars Memorandi, the block-book, 233
Ars Moriendi, the block-book, 235
Association of printers at Milan, 504
— — — at Strasburg, 381
Assyrian Cylinders, 33
Augsburg, early printing at, 497
Babylon, bricks of, 33
Badius Jodocus, of Paris, 506
Bamberg, Bible of, see Bible of 36 lines.
— early printing at, 485
— Missal, 495
Batavia of Adrian Junius, 335
— its authority considered, 336
Bearers of early printing press, 306
Bechtermüntz, Henry and Nicholas, 441
Beildick Lorentz, testimony of, 385
Bellaert Jacob, of Zierikzee, 319
Berlin print, 80
Bernard August, history of, 11
Bible, early translations of, 181
— first with wood-cuts, 498
— reading of prohibited, 182
Bible, Mazarin, see Bible of 42 lines.
Bible of 1462 (48 lines), 462
Bibles of Mentel at Strasburg, 491
Bible of 36 lines, description of, 412
— — — — its discovery, 411
— — — — not printed by Pfister, 484
— — — — peculiarities of, 414
— — — — possibly the first, 412
— — — — Schelhorn’s view of, 480
— — — — speculations about, 432
— — — — when printed, 415
Bible of 42 lines, description of, 419
— — — — annotations in, 424
— — — — cost of, 474
— — — — defects of, 422
— — — — ornamentation of, 422
— — — — prices paid for, 425
— — — — probably of slow sale, 425
— — — — two kinds of copies, 450
— — — — workmanship of, 421
Bible of the Poor, editions from types, 208
— — — — xylographic editions of, 199
— — — — description of, 200
— — — — Nordlingen edition, 208
— — — — prices paid for, 208
— — — — printing of, 203
Blemishes in books, how corrected, 271
Block-books, Antichrist, 230
— Apocalypse, 210
— Apostles’ Creed, 228
— Ars Memorandi, 233
— Ars Moriendi, 235
— Bible of the Poor, 198
— Book of Kings, 224
— Canticles, 215
— Chiromancy of Hartlieb, 239
— Dance of Death, 247
— Donatus, 254
— Eight Rogueries, 229
— Exercise Lord’s Prayer, 222
— German Planetarium, 241
— Grotesque Alphabet, 226
— Life of St. Meinrat, 246
— Pomerium Spirituale, 244
— Story of the Virgin, 219
— Temptations of Devil, 245
— Wonders of Rome, 243
— absurdities in, 222
— advantages of, 261
— definition of, 194
— disregarded by scholar, 251
— earliest date in, 245
Block-books, great number of, 194, 248
— inferiority of, 195
— literary merit of, 250
— made for priests, 248
— obscurity of, 260
— period of, 251
— permitted to people, 249
— popularity of, 238, 249
— where made, 252
Block-printers, many in number, 248
— faulty work of, 248
— unknown, 252
Block-printing an established trade, 253
— early notices of, 91
— in Holland, 256
— not Gutenberg’s secret, 395
— process of, 83
— slighted, 86, 184
Blocks used for engraving, 114
Bodies, irregularities of, explained, 519
Bodies of types, cuts of, 25, 56, 275, 406
— — — in Speculum, 275
— — — not made by rule, 518
— — — of Caxton, 293
— — — of unknown printer, 292
Bodman’s spurious documents, 436
Book of Kings, 224
Book of Trades, 61
Book-binding, Chinese, 116
— of middle ages, 153
— prices paid for, 168
— sumptuous forms of, 156
Book-collecting, a princely hobby, 167
Book-making, as done in old Rome, 42
— an ecclesiastical art, 148
— becomes a trade, 187
— given up to copyists, 159
— in Ireland, 147
— in monasteries, 148
— oriental method of, 136
Book of Four Stories, 481
Book of Fables, 482
Books, printed, changes in style of, 472
— Chinese, cheapness of, 119
— common in old Rome, 43
— demand for cheapness in, 187
— early printed, cheapness of, 511
— early printed, prices of, 512
— medieval, 150
— — character of, 162
— — cheap forms of, 154, 163
— — large size of, 156
— — made by artists, 166
— — made for the rich, 170
— — neglected by clergy, 159
— — obsoleteness of, 186
— — of romance, 165
— — sale of regulated, 160
— — sumptuousness of, 168
— of dark ages, 45
— of monasteries, 216
— of pictures, 163
— of unknown printer, 284
— number printed before 1500, 511
— the right of the educated, 251
— injudiciously selected, 512
— written and printed, 188
Book-sellers of Paris, 160
Book-selling restricted, 162
Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius, 350
Branding in middle ages, 38
Brass moulds or matrices, 61
Brass stamps of middle ages, 38
Brass types impracticable, 65
Brethren of Life-in-Common, 177, 250, 443
Bricks, stamped, antiquity of, 30
Brito John, of Bruges, 321
Brotherhood of the Life-in-Common at Weidenbach, 250, 495
Bruges, early printing at, 499
— guild of book-makers at, 314
Brussels print, 78
Bull of Pope Pius II against the Turks, 464
Burnisher of engravers, 84
Calendar of 1457, 432
Calendar or Almanac of 1460, 436
Calico-printing, early, 127
Calligraphy, early, 148, 166
Cambray, record of, 312
Canticles, the block-book, 215
Card-makers, early, 91
Case of early compositors, 523
Castaldi Pamphilo, 28, 486
Catholicon of 1460, 434
Caxton William, of England, 507
Celebration of the Mass, 436
Cennini Bernard, 503
Chases of wood, 306, 527
Chinese printing, early method of, 111
— language not fit for types, 116
— paper, invention of, 133
Chiromancy of Dr. Hartlieb, 238
Cicero, his speculations on types, 36
Clog of England, 175
Codex Argenteus, 125
Cologne as a school for printers, 324, 495
Cologne Chronicle of 1499, 315
Cologne, early printing at, 494
Color work of Peter Schœffer, 456
Complaint against Death, 483
Composing rules, early ignorance of, 524
Composition as done in 1564, 523
— by dictation, 524
— double, indications of, 464
— in imitation of writing, 525
— imperfections of, 525
Composition of types in China, 118
— — — a test of age, 312
— — — cost of, 24
Compositors often men of education, 522
— sometimes women, 523
Condition of medieval society, 179
Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, 314
Consolation of the Sinner, 482
Constitutions of Pope Clement V, 461
Coornhert and Van Zuren, 320
Copper-plate printing, process of, 19
— — invention of, 27
Copyists, faults of, 539
— fond of pictures, 163
— of middle ages, 149
— of old Rome, 42
— of Paris, 162
Cornelis, the binder, 284, 332, 343
Correctors of the press, 540
Coster, Lourens Janszoon, 326
Coster, as described by Junius, 331
— — — by Koning, 356
— — — in archives, 365
— — — in chair book, 367
— — — in treasury book, 366
— as a printer, 339
— as a sexton, 338
— as a tallow-chandler, 365
— as a tavern keeper, 369
— confounded with Janszoon, 368
— alleged descendants of, 345
— portraits of, 371, 374
— statues of, 351, 359
— tablets to, 359, 360
Costerian Museum, 361
Counter-punch, use of, 54
Couplets of Cato 285, 288
Cuneiform inscriptions, 30
Cunio, the story of the two, 129
Cylinders of Assyria, 34
Dance of Death, Holbein’s designs, 183
— — — in Nuremberg Chronicle, 185
— — — popularity of, 184
— — — the block-book, 247
Decretals of Boniface VIII, 466
Desroches, his story about Ludwig, 315
De Vries Abraham, on Coster, 357
Dialogue between Cato, Hugo, et al., 436
Dictation, Madden’s theory of, 450, 524
Diether, Count of Isenburg, 438
Dissertation on Invention, Boxhorn’s, 350
Doctor Hartlieb, Chiromancy of, 238
Doctrinal of Alexander Gallus, 285, 288
— of Cambray, 312
Donatus noticed by Zell, 256, 315
— ascribed to Gutenberg, 258, 401
— imitations of type-work, 261
— of Gutenberg at Mentz, 404
— of Koning, 259
— suggested typography, 392
— of Sweinheym, 257
— of unknown printer, 284
— popularity of the book, 254
Dordrecht, tradition of printing at, 257
Dritzehen Claus, complaint of, 380
— Andrew, death of, 384
— — services of, 387
— Ennel, testimony of, 383
— George, 386
Dünne Hans, testimony of, 388
Education, state of in XIVth century, 172
Education of schools in middle ages, 176
— afforded by block-books, 249
— early, made difficult, 263
— modern, aided by types, 260
Eggestein Henry, of Strasburg, 491
Eight Rogueries, the block-book, 229
Eltvill, printing done at, 439
— a suburb of Mentz, 443
Embossed types of unknown printer, 280
— — of Codex Argenteus, 126
Endkrist, the block-book, 230
Engravers, early, jealousy of, 498
Engravers on wood, early, notices of, 184
Engraving an aid to the invention, 396
Engraving decadence of, 536
— large blocks of, 536
— often done on metal, 535
— of Pfister, 484
— at Augsburg, 498
— at Nuremberg, 496
— not mother of typography, 392
— not practised at Haarlem, 321
— of playing cards, 91
— of punches, 65, 514
— on wood, by the Cunios, 130
— — — Chinese practice, 116
— — — early forms of, 132
— — — rudeness of, 239, 536
— — — Italian practice of, 131
— — — merit of early work, 71
— — — neglect of, 278, 535
— — — of letters, 200
— — — origin considered, 75
— — — used by copyists, 124
Enschedé on wood types, 297, 355
Epitaphs of Pope Pius II, 287
Erasmus, his version of the invention, 345
— as a corrector, 540
Errata, first appearance of, 526
Errors of early books, 540
— typographical, frequency of, 458, 525
Eulogy on Lorenzo Valla, 287
Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer, 222
Fables, Book of, by Pfister, 482
Fables of Lorenzo Valla, 286
Faust John, as described by Junius, 331
Faustus Jo. Frid., testimony of, 478
Finiguerra Maso, 27
Flanders, early importance of, 178
Flemings, their skill in the arts, 178
Flemish block-printing, 215, 252, 314
Florence, early printing at, 503
Form, ambiguity of the word, 397
Formen, 397, 443, 466, 476, 522
Forms of metal, notices of, 387
— melted by Gutenberg, 397
— were probably matrices, 398, 443
Four pieces, the tool of, 398
Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, 314
— of St. Luke, 315
Friction, press-work by, 204
Frisket, early use of, 280
Frotton of engravers on wood, 83
— not used by block-printers, 204
Fust John, conflicting views about, 417
— — death of, 468
— — his suit against Gutenberg, 425
— — his victory over Gutenberg, 430
— — was not Faust, 416
— Conrad, 468
— Jacob, the judge, 428
Fust’s sale of Bible in Paris, 466
Gebwiler, testimony of, 489
Gelthus Adam, tablet of, 446
Gensfleisch John, not a printer, 404
— family of, 377
Gering Ulrich, 505
German Planetarium and Calendar, 241
Germany, its progress in education, 177
— — — in useful arts, 178
Getté en molle, meaning of the term, 313
Goldsmiths as punch-cutters, 514
Gothic character, popularity of, 516
Gothic letters, origin of, 150
— — popularity of, 516
— — varieties of, 406
— — Petrarch’s dislike of, 151
Grotesque Alphabet, the block-book, 227
Guilds of middle ages, 186, 390
— of book-makers, 187
Gutenberg, family of, 376
Gutenberg John, early life of, 377
— as a book-maker, 419
— as a courtier, 440
— as a financier, 379
— as an engraver, 395, 396
— as an inventor, 381, 416, 448
— as an organizer, 389
— books printed by, 433
— careless of fame, 434
— Catholicon of, 435
— courage of, 431
— death of, 442
— experiments of, 402
— memorials of, 446, 447
— partnership of, at Strasburg, 387
— partnership of, at Mentz, 418
— planned the Psalter, 459
— poverty of, 385, 402, 433
— probable marriage of, 379
— supplanted by Schœffer, 430
— trials of, at Strasburg, 379, 380
— — — at Mentz, 425
— unknown work of, 437
Gutenberg’s types, history of, 443
— defense against Fust, 427
— idea of typography, 445
— place in history, 448
Haarlem, first notice of legend of, 327
— known printers at, 319
— neglected printing, 345, 335
Hahn Ulrich, 501
Hanequis Conrad, 468
Hanseatic League, 179
Hasback of Haarlem, 320
Hauman Frederic, 443
Heilmann Anthony, testimony of, 387
Hessels J. H., writings of, 284
Holland, early printing of, 315, 256
— confounded with Netherlands, 316
— not the birthplace of invention, 318
Horarium of Scaliger, 257
— of Adrien Rooman, 260
Horn-book of England, 174
How to Die Becomingly, 235
How to Remember the Evangelists, 233
Humery Conrad, friend to Gutenberg, 431
— — acknowledgment of, 442
Ignorance, prevalence of in dark ages, 45
— of ecclesiastics, 147
Iliad of Homer, the school-book, 287, 288
Illuminated books of middle ages, 152
Illuminators and calligraphers, 166
Impression by different methods, 26
— doubling of, 278
— not typography, 50
— on bricks, 30
Impression on early hand press, 306, 530
— on paper and vellum, 538
— on textile fabrics, 127
Image prints all devotional, 85
— — Annunciation, 72
— — Berlin print, 80
— — Brussels print, 78
— — Indulgence print, 77
— — St. Christopher, 71
— — preceded books, 69
— — how printed, 83
— — made for stenciling, 70
— — merit of, 87
— — not done by friction, 84
— — not made by monks, 86
— — origin of, 69
— — popularity of, 86
— — where made, 82
Impositions of eight pages, 291
Initial letters of Italy, 122, 487
— — of early printers, 516
Inking balls, how made, 529
Inking of printing surfaces, 25
Ink Printing, affected by paper, 532
— — deterioration of, 534
— — early, faults of, 454
— — early, unstableness of, 533
— — inequality of, 532
— — Moxon’s criticism of, 534
— — of Bible of 42 lines, 421
— — of Donatus of Mentz, 404
— — of Jenson, 532
— — of Psalter of Mentz, 456
— — of the block-printers, 203
— — of the Psalter of 1457, 452
— — of the Ripoli press, 533
— — of unknown printer, 270, 278
— — the complement of types, 533
Ink writing, antiquity of, 39
— — useless in printing, 40
Invention, merit of, not in idea, 445, 487
Inventions not the work of experts, 395
Invention of paper in China, 133
Invention of press, not noticed, 304
— — — why neglected, 527
Invention of Printing,
— — — early notices of, 446
— — — a great discovery, 67
— — — came at the right time, 45
— — — different methods of, 28
— — — key of in the type-mould, 67
— — — merit of, not in the idea, 51
— — — — — in the type-mould, 445
— — — not perfect in 1439, 394
— — — probable causes of, 15, 28
— — — waited for readers, 45
— — — version of Bertius, 347
— — — — — Coornhert, 327
— — — — — De Vries, 357
— — — — — Erasmus, 318, 345
— — — — — Guicciardini, 329
— — — — — Jo. Frid. Faustus, 478
— — — — — Junius, 330
— — — — — Koning, 356
— — — — — Meerman, 353, 354
— — — — — Scaliger, 257
— — — — — John Schœffer, 473
— — — — — Scriverius, 348
— — — — — Seiz, 352
— — — — — Trithemius, 445, 474
— — — — — Van Zuren, 328
— — — — — Wimpheling, 393
— — — — — Zell, 315
Invention of printing ink, 40, 331, 533
Inventions of the middle ages, 177
Invention of types, not boasted of, 435
— — — alleged thefts of, 332, 342
Ireland, the book-makers of, 147
Italy, early printers of, 500
— its enthusiasm for the art, 505
Jan, the printer at Antwerp, 314
Janszoon not Janszoon Coster, 356, 368
Japan, paper of, 133
Jenson Nicholas, 465
— — as a type founder, 502
John of Gamundia, calendar of, 241
John of Westphalia, as a publisher, 498
Judgment of Man after Death, 483
Junius Hadrian, sketch of his life, 334
— — credulousness of, 336
— — history of, 335
Kepfer (or Keffer) Henry, 437, 495
Ketel Anthonis, of Haarlem, 320
Ketelaer and De Leempt, 498
Kerver Thielman, of Paris, 506
Keyser Peter, of Paris, 506
Knowledge, acquisition of, difficult, 263
Knowledge a monopoly, 146, 251
Koburger Anthony, of Nuremberg, 495
Koning’s book on the invention, 356
Koster Lourens Janszoon, see Coster.
Labor, division of, by printers, 521
Latin language, why preserved, 147
— — abbreviations of, 164
— — key to all knowledge, 176
Laurecrans of Scriverius, 348
Lead used by Gutenberg, 380
Leads first used by Schœffer, 467
Lecturn of the middle ages, 156
Leeu Gerard, industry of, 500
Legend of Haarlem, 326
— — — began with pedigree, 362
— — — contradictions of, 358
— — — early meagreness of, 328
— — — echo of false history, 340
— — — exposure of, 363
— — — improbability of, 346
— — — unfixed dates of, 350, 357
Legend of Walchius about the sale of first printed books at Paris, 466
Letters engraved, peculiarities of, 262
— — imperfections of, 200
Lettres de somme or Round Gothic, 313
— de forme or Pointed Gothic, 313
Letter of Indulgence of 1461, 433
Letters of Indulgence of 1454, 405
— — — Holbein’s satire on, 407
— — — popularity of, 408
— — — translation of, 409
Libraries, early, neglect of, 159
— in France and Burgundy, 167
Life of St. Meinrat, 246
Literature, decline of in old Rome, 44
— neglect of by the Church, 147
— of popular books, 187
— of the romance books, 165
— revolutionized by printing, 186
— the privilege of a class, 170, 251
Lithography, process of, 20
— invention of, 27
Little Book of the Mass, 284
London, early printing at, 508
Louvain, early printing at, 498
Lyons, early printing at, 506
Making-up badly done, 525
Mansion Colard, of Bruges, 499
Manuscripts, faultiness of, 540
Manutius Aldus, 503
— as an editor, 540