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Last Name Petri

Given Name Johann

alt. Names J. P. ; J. / Johannes Petrus ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1441 in Langendorf near Hammerdorf, Franconia

Year died 1512

Place of death Passau

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education apprenticeship as book printer in Mainz ;

Country of Activity Switzerland

Worked for Herbarius Latinus (Passau 1485) ;

Patronage

Collaborators unknown wood-cutters ; hand-colourers ;

Techniques botanical woodcut ; hand-colouring

Sample(s) www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/manuscripts.html , esp.http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/photos/wildmoren1485.jpg & ..../pastinaca1485.jpg &.../daucuscret1485.jpg

Archival sources http://gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/doPrint.asp?search=1&search=Suche+starten&pr=Johann+Petri

Published sources ADB 25 1887: 520-2 ; NDB ; Immanuel Stockmeyer & Balthasar Reber: Beiträge zur Basler Buchdruckergeschichte (Basel 1840) ;

other Further Places of Activity: Germany (born in Franconia), and Switzerland (moved to Basel where he became citizen in 1488).

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