Iacobi Menteli, patricii, castro-theodoricensis, De vera typographiae origine paraenesis
By: Ad sapientissimvm virvm D. Bernardvm a Malinkrot, monasteriensem decanum
Publisher: Apud Robertvm Ballard, Architypographum Musices Regis, ad signum Parnassi Montis, in vico Sancti Ioannis Bellouacensis
Published: 1650
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Printing; History; Origin and antecedents
Other titles: De vera typographiae origine paraenesis.
Notes: First published anonymously in 1644 under title: Brevis excvrsvs de loco, tempore et authore inuentionis typographiae.

Claims that Johannes Mentelin of Strassburg (according to some authorities an ancestor of the author) was the inventor of printing.

Book-plate of Richard Rawlinson.