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Jacob (Jakob) Eber was a 15th century printer

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Eber's life data are not sufficiently documented. Neither the place of birth nor the place of death or the times have come down to us. His family came from Landsberg am Lech . He himself married a daughter of the Wagnerian Erhard Kannel in Strasbourg in 1473. After the wedding, he received the citizenship of Strasbourg.

Around 1480 he opened a printing house to which five prints can be assigned. He printed the "Dialogi" of Gregory the Great , the Berlin copy of which was rubricated in 1481 . The only document with a date is from 1483. It was the "Scala coeli" by Johannes Gobi . Due to similar types, it can be assumed that he also reproduced “De eruditione christifidelium” by Johannes Herolt , “Fraternitas cleri” by Ulrich Ulmer and “Summa de articulis fidei” by Thomas Aquinas .

Eber used very strange letters . The subsidiary forms to be found in it are strongly reminiscent of a printer who worked in Strasbourg from 1481 to 1483 and who published the “Legende Aurea von 1481”.

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SURNAME Eber, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eber, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 15th century book printer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century