Creator
Johann Fust & Peter Schöffer
Title
Psalterium.
Coverage
Mainz
Date
1457
Subject
Folio.
Description
Sometime shortly before the completion of the 42-line Bible, Gutenberg’s banker (Johann Fust) and foreman (Peter Schöffer) established a partnership to publish books exploiting the recent invention of multiplying text through individual cast characters. As Gutenberg had done immediately before them, Fust & Schöffer achieved a superlative level of beauty in their printed volumes.
Fust & Schöffer brought the added element of color to their printed pages. There are only ten copies known today, all printed on vellum.
Fust & Schöffer brought the added element of color to their printed pages. There are only ten copies known today, all printed on vellum.
Relation
LENDER: The Morgan Library & Museum