The Gutenberg Fiction A Critical Examination of the Documents Relating to Gutenberg, Showing That He Was Not the Inventor of Printing Classic Reprint

Jan Hendrik Hessels

ISBN 10: 0332618072 / ISBN 13: 9780332618074

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titolo: The Gutenberg Fiction A Critical Examination of the Documents Relating to Gutenberg, Showing That He Was Not the Inventor of Printing Classic Reprint
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0332618072
• ISBN 13: 9780332618074
• Rilegatura: HRD
• Condizione: New

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Excerpt from The Gutenberg Fiction: A Critical Examination of the Documents Relating to Gutenberg, Showing That He Was Not the Inventor of Printing

Bockenheimer's reasons for objeéting to the documents are plausible; they tend to show that, drawn up in ignorance of the legal, social, and local customs of the period (1434 55) in which the events or aé'tions are said to have taken place, the documents describe actions and proceedings that are at variance with the then prevailing usages. He also points out that according to the researches or Dr. Levi of Strassburg, our knowledge of Strassburg lawsuits goes no further back than the sixteenth century, so that if the Strassburg lawsuit of 1439 were genuine, it would furnish us with extensive records of a trial said to have taken place a century earlier, and would have, on that account, a value far beyond that which it has with respect to Gutenberg's career.

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