102 Anecdotes of the Early Printers at Nuremberg. [Mfircli 1, 



TUe Middle Classes. — Comparative esliniafe of tlie expense in different years of 

 housekeeping in a family of the middle class, supposed to reside in London. 



1792. I 1813. J823. 



Honse-rent • 



Assessed taxes and poor-rate 



Waijes ; two women servants 



Clothes - 



Boots and shoes 



Wine, spirits, and strong beer = .,..,.... 



Table beer 



Tea, sugar, and other groceries • 



Fuel 



Light, viz. candles'and oil . . • . • 



Washing 



Bread 



Butcher's meat 



IMilk, butter, fish, cheese 



Education 



Medical attendance 



Furniture ; annual repairs and purchases • 



Incidents, such as postage, stationery, charity, pocket dis' 



bursemcnls 



Expenses of a less necessary character, such as excursion to the 



seaside, or the country • • • • 



Expense of company 



Furniture ; interest on the money invested in its purchase ; also 



its insurance against fire 



'For the Monthly Magazine. 



ANUCDOTBS of the EARLY PRINTERS at 

 NUREMBERG. 



' E have copies of works printed 

 at Nuremberg, with the date of 

 1470, but without a printer's name. 

 This circumstance has given rise to 

 doubts as to priority of claims, some at- 

 tributing the introduction of tlic art to 

 Frederick Creulzner, others to John 

 Sensenschmidt, and a few will have 

 Henry Rumel to be the earliest typo- 

 grapher in Nuremberg. 



Eut this honour appears to be due 

 to John Sensenschmidt, a citizen of 

 Nuremberg, but a native of Egra, 

 in Bohemia. It is certain that the 

 •Comestorium Viliorum Franc, dc 

 Rctza,' bearing tlic date of 1470, was 

 printed witii the characters that Senscn- 

 sclimidt made use of. We have, also, 

 'Joh. Gerson, super Cantica, &c. Nurem- 

 bergee, 1740,' in folio, dune with the 

 same types. The claims of Creutzner 

 rest on impressions without a date. 



The name of Sensenschmidt is found, 

 for the first time, in the 'Margarita 

 Poctica,' of Eyb, 1472. He printed, 

 in connexion with Henry Keffer, in 

 1478, and continued printing from 1474 

 to 1478, in partnership with Andres 

 Frisjier. Some time after, Sensen- 

 schmidt loft Nuremberg, and, removing 



to Bamberg, printed several works per- 

 taining to the Liturgy, from 1481 to 

 1490. He appears, also, to have been 

 one time at Kalisboii, invited by the 

 bishop of that city. 



Some notice might be taken, lierc, of 

 a manuscript note to be found in the 

 ' Comestorium Vitiorum,' &e. belong- 

 ing to the University of Alldforf, 

 worded thus: 'Hunc Libruni propina- 

 vit nobis Henricus Rumel, cum suis 

 Impressoribus, eo quod plures Libros ex 

 Libraria nostra eis accommodaverimus.' 

 ' This book has been made over to us by 

 Henry Rumel, with his printers, as we 

 had lent him several books out of our 

 library.' His name, however, not ap- 

 pearing in any known edition, it is con- 

 cluded that lie was only corrector or 

 editor of the work, or that if was printed 

 at his expense. 



Frederick Creutzner, of Nuremberg, 

 was one of the first printers in that city. 

 His name appears, for the first time, in 

 a German Opuscule (small tract), en- 

 titled, ' Ob cinem mann,' &e. 4to. 

 1472. We have, besides, a very great 

 number of his printed works, from 1472 

 to 1495; but, after that time, his name 

 is no-where found, 



Henry Keffer, of Menlz, printed 

 here, in jjartnership with Sensenschmidt, 

 in 1473, but his name is not to be found 

 afterwards. In the law-process between 



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