Title: Iacobi Menteli, patricii, Castro-Theodoricensis, de vera typographiæ origine Parænesis. Ad sapientissimum virum D. Bernardum a Malinkrot, Monasteriensem Decanum
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">4to. pp. [8], 119, [1] (blank). Signatures: A⁴ A-P⁴. Vellum.
Remnants of green satin link. The dedication copy, ruled in red; Manuscript
dedication inscription to the distinguished German bibliographer Bernard von
Mallinckrodt on verso of half-title, and a long note in red ink in the same
hand (presumably Mentel’s) on p. 104. With half-title. Large heraldic engraving
on p. 104. Woodcuts: title vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials. Correction
in red on p. 72. Stamp Theol. Ins. Conn.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bound up for presentation with Mentel’s very rare preliminary
sketch, Brevis excursus de loco, tempore, &amp; authore Inventionis
Typographiæ. Ad Clarissimum virum Gabrielem Naudæum, Parisiensem. Paris,
Excudebat Antonius Vitré, Regis, Reginæ Regentis &amp; Cleri Gallicani
Typographus, 1644 (Bib#4102882/Fr#360 in this collection).</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Originally published anonymously in 1644 under the title ‘Brevis
excursus de loco, tempore et authore inventionis typographiae.’ One of two
editions printed by Ballard in 1650. The work incorporates forged genealogical
and historical evidence supporting Mentel’s claims that Johann Mentelin of
Strassburg, the author’s ancestor, was the inventor of printing. See E Havensm
“Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W.
Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe,
1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 61.</span></p><p></p>

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