List of incunabula printers
The list of Inkunabeldruckern or weighing printers including printers incunabula (incunabula) of "early printing time" before the year 1500. About their origins and the exact date of birth is often little known, and the death is often uncertain.
Abbreviations: ADB Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , NDB Neue Deutsche Biographie , DBI Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , GW General Catalog of Incunabula , ISTC Incunabula Short Title Catalog
The list is incomplete.
| Surname | place of origin | Year of death | Dispensing | Period | Works number |
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Johannes Gutenberg , Gensfleisch |
Mainz | 1468 | Mainz | 1450-1455 | 11 | Gutenberg Bible | NDB |
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| Johannes Fust | Mainz | 1466 | Mainz | 1450-1466 | 31 | Psalterium Moguntinum (1457) | NDB |
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| Peter Schöffer | Gernsheim | 1503 | Mainz | 1455-1503 | 240 | Psalterium Moguntinum (1457) | NDB |
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| Albrecht Pfister | unknown | 1466 | Bamberg | around 1460–1466 | was the first to use woodcuts in his prints |
GW ISTC |
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Leonardus Achates , Leonhard Agtstein |
Basel | 1491 (after) |
Venice Italy |
1472 1472-1491 |
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Johann Amerbach , Johannes Welcker |
Amorbach | 1513 | Basel | 1478-1513 | NDB |
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| Thomas Anshelm | Baden (markgrfl.) | 1522/1524 | Strasbourg , Pforzheim , Tübingen , Haguenau | NDB | ||||
| Steffen Arndes | Hamburg | 1519 |
Perugia Schleswig Lübeck |
1477-1481 1486 1486-1519 |
Missale Slesvicense (1486) Lübeck Bible (1494) |
NDB |
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Johann Bämler , boiler man |
augsburg | 1503 | augsburg | 1472-1495 | 136 | Johann Schönsperger's stepfather | NDB |
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Bartolomeo de 'Libri , di Francesco |
1518/1520 | Florence | 1482-1511 | 275 | DBI |
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| Konrad Baumgarten | Rottenburg am Neckar |
Gdansk Olomouc Frankfurt (Oder) |
1498-1499 1500-1501 1507-1509 |
10 | ||||
| Nikolaus Bechtermünz | Mainz | 1488 (after) | Eltville | 1467-1476 | Types from P. Drach senior | NDB | ||
| Peter Berger | augsburg | ? | augsburg | 1486-1490 | 10 | 2. Husband of Anna Rüger | ADB | |
| Lucas Brandis | Delitzsch | 1500 (after) |
Merseburg Lübeck |
1473 1473-1499 |
59 | Rudimentum novitiorum (1475); Brandistype | NDB |
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| Marcus Brandis | Delitzsch | 1500 (after) |
Merseburg Leipzig |
1479-1480 1481-1487 |
83 | first printer in Leipzig | NDB | |
| Matthew Brandis | Delitzsch | 1512 (after) |
Lübeck Ribe Copenhagen |
1485-1500 1501-1504 1506-1512 |
33 | NDB | ||
| Moritz Brandis | Delitzsch | 1500 (after) |
Leipzig Magdeburg |
1488-1489 1490-1500 |
102 | NDB | ||
| James de Breda | 1518 | Deventer | 1485-1518 | Types of Pafraet | ||||
| Arnold Bucking | Rome | 1478 | Cosmographia | ADB | ||||
| Antoine Caillaut | Paris | |||||||
| William Caxton | ? in Kent | 1491 |
Bruges Westminster |
1474 1476-1491 |
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy (1474f), the first English printer | ADB | ||
| Friedrich Creussner | Nuremberg | |||||||
| Konrad Dinckmut | Ulm | 1475-1496 | Ulmer Terence , Schwaebische Chronik | NDB | ||||
| Peter Drach senior | Speyer | 1481 (um) | Speyer | 1471-1481 | Publishing house in Worms | NDB | ||
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Peter Drach the Middle |
Speyer | 1504 | Speyer | 1481-1504 | NDB | |||
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Heinrich Eggestein , Eckstein |
Rosheim | 1488 (after) | Strasbourg | 1464-1488 | Latin Bible (before May 1466) | NDB | ||
| Georg Gessler | Zweibrücken | 1492-1495 | How arent bosman a ghost appeared (1492) | |||||
| Hans van Ghetelen | Lübeck | before 1460-1528 | Reynke de vos (1498) |
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| Bartholomew Ghotan | Magdeburg , Stockholm , Lübeck | -1496 | Missale Aboense (1488) | NDB |
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Konrad tiled stove , Contze Holtzhusen |
Varsberg | 1529 |
Leipzig ( Freiberg ) |
1483-1516 (1495-97) |
408 | NDB | ||
| Jakob Karweyse | " Karweze " (Karwiese near Mewe) | Marienburg | 1492 (um) | 3 | ||||
| Anton Koberger | Nuremberg | 1513 | Nuremberg | 1470-1504 | 232 | Godfather of Albrecht Dürer , Schedelsche Weltchronik (1493) | ADB |
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| Martin Landsberg | Leipzig | |||||||
| Gerard Leeu | Gouda cheese | 1492 | Gouda Antwerp |
1477-1484 1484-1492 |
226 | ADB |
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Johannes Mentelin , Mentlin |
Schlettstadt | 1478 | Strasbourg | 1458-1478 | Mentelin Bible (1466) | NDB | ||
| Richardus Pafraet | Deventer | |||||||
| Stephan Plannck | Passau | 1501 | Rome | 1478-1501 | 445 | NDB | ||
| Johann Pruss | Strasbourg | |||||||
| Heinrich Quentell | North Hesse | 1501 | Cologne | 1478-1501 | 476 | NDB | ||
| Erhard Ratdolt | augsburg | 1528 |
Venice Augsburg |
1476-1485 1486-1522 |
215 | Calendarius of Regiomontanus (1476) | NDB |
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Sigmund Rot , Sigismund Rodt |
Bitche | 1490 after | Zurich | 1479-81 | 2 | first printer in Zurich | GW | |
| Anna Rüger | augsburg | 1491 after | augsburg | 1484 | 2 | Saxony mirror | NDB |
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| Thomas Rüger | augsburg | 1483 | augsburg | 1481-1482 | 2 | with Johann Schönsperger | ||
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Adolf Rusch , Rischius, Ruscum |
Ingweiler | 1489 | Strasbourg | 1474-1489 | prints first north of the Alps in Antiqua | NDB | ||
| Johann Schönsperger | augsburg | 1521 | Augsburg (Nuremberg) |
1481-1519 (1517) |
222 | Theuerdank (1517, 1519) | NDB |
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| Martin Schott | Strasbourg ? | Mentelin's son-in-law | ||||||
| Uldericus Scinzenzeler | Milan | |||||||
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Eucharius silver , Franck |
Würzburg , diocese | 1509/1510 | Rome | 1480-1509 | 489 | ADB | ||
| Johann Snell | Lübeck , Odense , Stockholm | ADB |
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| Anton Sorg | augsburg | |||||||
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Johannes de Spira , Johannes from Speyer |
Speyer | 1469/1470 | Venice | 1469-1470 | 3 | first printer in Venice | ADB | |
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Wendelinus de Spira , Wendelin of Speyer |
Speyer | 1477 | Venice | 1470-1477 | 76 | ADB | ||
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Adam stone scraper , stone show ... |
Haina | 1480 (after) | Geneva | 1478-1480 | 12 | first printer in Geneva | ADB | |
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Johann Veldener , Veldenaer |
Wurzburg | 1486-96 |
Cologne lions Utrecht Culemborg lions |
1471-1472 1473-1477 1478-1481 1483-1484 1484- 1487 |
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Wynkyn de Worde , Vort, van Worden |
Word | 1535 |
Westminster London |
1491-1500 1500-1535 |
129 | Successor to Caxton |
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Günther Zainer , Zeyner, Zeiner |
Reutlingen | 1478 | augsburg | 1468-1478 | 109 | first printer in Augsburg | ADB |
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| Johann Zainer | Reutlingen | 1523 (um) | Ulm | 1473-1515 | 167 | Boccaccio: De claris mulieribus | ADB |
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| Antonius Zarotus | Milan | |||||||
| Ulrich Zell | Hanau | 1507 | Cologne | 1466-1502 | 120 | ADB |
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