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In the year 1466, the first printed Bible in the German language came out in Strasbourg at the printing press of Johann Mentelin (d. 1478). This edition was conceived as a pure text-Bible, in which the addition of woodcuts was renounced. Mentelin chose as the master a text of the fourteenth century from the area of Nuremberg, which is lost today. As his printing type, he used a small round-Gothic script, which was pleasant to read and saved so much space that his German Bible contained only 427 sheets. Although the edition had a very low print run, even considering the times, there are still over 30 exemplars known. The Erlangen exemplar is considered a rarity because of its exceptional leather carving cover, even though these incunabula are not rare works as such. // Datum: 2017