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of the Exhibition PETER SCHOEFFER : PRINTER OF MAINZ at Bridwell Library 8 September - 8 December 2003 |
21. PRINTING THE NEWS OF THE WORLD
Maximilian, I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519). Coronatio Maximiliani.
[Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, after 27 April 1486].
To Schoeffer fell the honor of printing the official publication
announcing the coronation of Maximilian I as the Holy Roman Emperor at
Aachen on 9 April 1486. The Latin text describes the event’s protocols
and participants in detail. Needing a large and handsome font for the
title page – a major innovation that Fust and Schoeffer had introduced
in 1463 – Schoeffer chose to use Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible type, by then
more than three decades old. He used this type for the last time in the
Missale Moguntinum (for use in Mainz) in 1493.
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