1. - DONATUS. [Mainz: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, ca. 1460-1468?]
- Curatorial Note:
- After the Gutenberg Bible was completed, Johann Fust retained possession of the Gutenberg Bible types, and they were used by his shop in the following years to print numerous editions of the Donatus grammar, all surviving only in binding fragments. Some thirteen of these editions employed the several sizes of cast initials that Fust and Schoeffer had first made for the 1457 Psalter. None of the fragments is dated or datable, but one, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, preserves a colophon naming Schoeffer alone as the printer, and so dates after the death of Fust in 1466. The present fragment reveals how handsome these schoolbooks would have been.