Word: schoffer
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Johann Gensfleisch, called Gutenberg from the birthplace of his mother, Elsgen Wyrich, is thought to have printed this Bible. But Peter Schoffer and Johann Fust were also commercializing this newly devised method at that time (the middle of the 15th Century), and may possibly have done the work. Gutenberg never put his imprint on anything. But certainly in 1454 he printed and dated Pope Nicholas V's letter of indulgence on behalf of the King of Cyprus, the first dated piece of separate-type printing and the forerunner of this Bible...