It was printed for the Emperor Maximilian, by Hans Schonsperger, of Nuremberg, and, to make it unique, all the punches were cut on purpose, and as many as seven or eight varieties of each letter, which, together with the clever way in which the ornamental flourishes are carried above and below the line, has led even experienced printers to deny its being typography.

It is, nevertheless, entirely from cast types.

A copy in good condition costs about L50.
Many years since I purchased, at Messrs.

Sotheby's, a large lot of MS.
leaves on vellum, some being whole sections of a book, but mostly single leaves.

Many were so mutilated by the excision of initials as to be worthless, but those with poor initials, or with none, were quite good, and when sorted out I found I had got large portions of nearly twenty different MSS., mostly Horae, showing twelve varieties of fifteenth century handwriting in Latin, French, Dutch, and German.