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19 The ‘Mainz group’ (Census, Group 8) is named after a bifolium at the Gutenberg-Museum that was used in Mainz as a wrapper on a document dated 1712. 20 Related single leaves are found in Nuremberg, Cambridge, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, and Christie’s sold one in 1989. Whereas 17 18 19 20 Karl & Faber (Munich), Auktion 21 (10 December 1941), lot 6; purchased by Dr. Ludwig Strecker (1883–1978) of Wiesbaden. Quinterniones eciam aliquot hic ad Cesarem delati sunt; see Meuthen (see above note 2), 114.

4 Among the many innovations introduced in this Psalter, the series of printed decorative initials is arguably the most complex in terms of technical procedures involved in its realization. 5 However, by shifting the focus to the design process of these initials, it is possible to uncover a hitherto unknown involvement of a designer in them. 7 He attributed two initials in the Mainz Psalter to a single hand, namely the four-line initial ‘C’ and the two-line initial ‘K’ (ills. 2-3, plate 6). According to him, the same designer worked on the six-line initial ‘T’ printed in the Canon missae, c.

11. PADERBORN GROUP: Headlines not preserved; chapter initial in red with long serifs; chapter numeral in neat red textura script, punctuated with a period, the numeral x with cross-bar; red capital strokes applied neatly onto the vertical elements of printed letters. I:151 (16/3) = II Samuel 8-11. Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, Fra. , Die Inkunabeln in der Erzbischöflichen Akademischen Bibliothek Paderborn (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1993), no. 106. Census: None. A. GROUP NOT DETERMINED: I:74 (8/4) = Numbers 17-19.

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