History of Printing & Middle Ages
Gutenberg, Fust and Schöffer's betrayal: an ancient tragedy in the Mainz workshop
Gutenberg without money, Fust with capital, and Schöffer, who by tradition switched sides. The 1455 trial that cost Gutenberg his workshop, and the Faust legend.
HistoryThree fingers write, the whole body suffers: how scribes lived in medieval monasteries
The typo demon, a woman with teeth stained blue from lapis lazuli, the Devil's Bible from Bohemia, and a monk complaining about hairy parchment. Life in the medieval scriptorium.
Middle AgesCity of ink and lead: how printing came to Prague
The anonymous printer of 1487, a printer who became mayor, and Melantrich, who gave his name to a street. The story of printing in Prague.
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