Medievalists.net » Munich http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Printing with gold in the fifteenth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/printing-with-gold-in-the-fifteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/17/printing-with-gold-in-the-fifteenth-century/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:12:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46756 Gold printing in the fifteenth century is very rare. There are only two printers who are known to have applied this technique. One of them was Erhard Ratdolt who first used gold for printing a gloriously spectacular full page of dedication in a number of copies of his editio princeps of Euclid.

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