Errors in Chapter II
The term Formschneider, which was originally used
Fornschneider
lustra / cors . apientie
printed as shown: probably error for “lustra / tor .
sapientie”
much better calculated to overthrow.II.43
overthrow.”
“Confute the exciseman and puzzle the vicar,—”
close quote missing
On these I have nothing to remark further
futher
not in the belief that I have made any important discovery
final t in “important” invisible
not so old as either the Apocalypse or the History of the
Virgin
Apocalpyse
Mulier autem in paradiso est formata
formato
David with Goliath’s head
Goliah’s
The title at full length is as follows: “Ars memorandi
open quote missing
Footnote II.2
That is: “always excepting
open quote missing
Footnote II-7
der Spielkarten Zu erforschen,
Zuerforschen
CHAPTER III.
INVENTION OF TYPOGRAPHY.
The discovery of desroches.—the stamping of lodewyc van vaelbeke.—early “prenters” of antwerp and bruges not typographers.—cologne chronicle.—donatuses printed in holland.—gutemberg’s birth and family—progress of his invention—his law-suit with the drytzehns at strasburg—his return to mentz, and partnership with faust—partnership dissolved.—possibility of printing with wooden types examined.—supposed early productions of gutemberg and faust’s press.—proofs of gutemberg having a press of his own.—the vocabulary printed at elfeld.—gutemberg’s death and epitaphs.—invention of printing claimed for lawrence coster.—the account given by junius—contradicted, altered, and amended at will by meerman, koning, and others.—works pretended to be printed with coster’s types.—the horarium discovered by enschedius.