Petrus Maufer Explained
Petrus Maufer, also known as Pierre Maufer, Pietro Maufer, or Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, was a 15th-century French printer of incunables, who learned the trade together with Martin Morin when the family Lallemant from Rouen sent them to the Rhine region to learn about book printing. Instead of returning to Rouen with Morin, he travelled to Italy and became one of the earliest known printers in Padua, Verona, Venice and Modena.[1]
Known publications
Padua
Verona
- 1480: Flavius Josephus e.a. De Bello Judaico and De Antiquitate Judaeorum Contra Apionem
Venice
Modena
- 1491: Bartholomaeus Socinus. Repetitio legis Gallus ff. de liberis et posthumis
- 1492: Johannes Lichtenberger. Pronosticatione in vulgare
- Johannes Baptista de Caccialupis. De debitoribus susceptis et fugitivis. De pactis. De Transactionibus
Further reading
- Giovanni Mardersteig, translated by H. Schmoller (London, Nattali & Maurice, 1967). The remarkable story of a book published in Padua in 1477. Gentile da Foligno's commentary on Avicenna printed by Petrus Maufer.
Notes and References
- Book: Frère, Édouard. Manuel du bibliographe normand: ou, Dictionnaire bibliographique et historique contenant: l'indication des ouvrages relatifs à la Normandie, depuis l'origine de l'imprimerie jusqu'à nos jours; des notes biographiques, critiques et littéraires sur les écrivains normands, sur les auteurs ..., Volume 2. 1860.
