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V4 2001 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 27, July 1, 2001, Article 4 RE-EXAMINING GUTENBERG'S ROLE NBS Board Member Larry Mitchell notes: "I received today the Spring 2001 Asylum. Another very nicely done issue... thank you! Douglas Saville notes in his article on the Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) series that "(p)rinting from moveable type was perfected at Mainz in the 1450's by Johann Gutenberg...." In fact, recent scholarship casts serious doubt on this assertion. With all due credit to Saville, however, this traditional scenario was not seriously questioned until early this year, by scholars working at Princeton University. A nice summary of their findings can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0212/

Wayne Homren, Editor

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