Chapter VII: Part 7

Scribes, their influence on printers, xvii.

Sensenschmidt and Frisner allude to their device in a colophon, 85.

Sidriano, Jo. de, colophon quoted, 58.

Sodalitas Celtica of Nuremberg, colophon quoted, 119.

Spain, privileges for exclusive printing granted in, 118.

Speier. See John of Speier, Wendelin of Speier.

Stuchs, Georg, colophon quoted, 146.

Sweynheym and Pannartz, their apology for their harsh names, 87.

Therhoernen, Arnold, colophon quoted, 92.

Title-pages, first appearance of, xvii.

Tuppo, Francesco, relations with Riessinger, 76.

V misprinted for X, 61;
often mistaken for it, 183.

Valdarfer, Christopher, colophons quoted, 49, 51;
his colophon to his 1474 ‘Confessionale’ unintelligently copied in
Germany, 161.

Veldener, Jan, mentions his device in a colophon, 84 sq.;
one of his colophons pirated by Conrad of Westphalia, 163 sq.;
its subsequent history, 165.

Venice, colophons quoted, 25-56, 77, 80, 111, 112, 124, 131, 132,
147, 173;
Oxford colophon’s allusion to Venice printers, 62;
a reference to its foundation, 70;
book privileges granted at, 111-113;
list of doges of, 173;
date when the year began at, 180.

Vérard, Antoine, careful address in his colophons, 105;
colophons quoted, 105, 117.

Verona, colophon quoted, 120.

Verse, use of, in colophons, 31;
the author’s apology for his renderings, _ib._

Vicenza, books printed at, protected by Venetian privileges, 115.

Virgil, verses in Wendelin of Speier’s 1470 edition, 37.

War, references to, in colophons, 69 sq.

Wendelin of Speier, colophons quoted, 36-41.

Wenssler, Michael, colophon quoted, 82;
imitates Schoeffer’s use of armorial device, 22;
copies one of Schoeffer’s colophons, 168.

Westminster colophons. See Caxton.

Westphalia, John of. See John.

Winds, allusion to, in a colophon, 168.

Winters, Conrad, mentions his device in a colophon, 85.

Wirzburg, Heinrich, colophon quoted, 166.

Wolgemut, M., illustrator of the ‘Nuremberg Chronicle,’ 121.

X, examples of accidental omission of, from dates in colophons, 43,
46 sq.;
V printed in the place of, 61;
often mistaken for it, 183.

Year, date of beginning in various countries, 175 sqq.

Zainer, Günther, verse colophon with acrostic of his Christian name, 81.

Zainer, Johann, colophon quoted, 58.

Zaroto, Antonio, his claim to be the first printer at Milan disputed by
Lavagna, 60 sq.

Zell, Ulrich, colophon quoted, 156.

Zovenzonius, Raphael, his verse colophons, 31.

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