[Footnote III-47: Philippi de Lignamine Chronica Summorum Pontificum Imperatorumque, anno 1474, Romæ impressa. A second edition of this chronicle was printed at Rome in 1476 by “Schurener de Bopardia.” In both editions Gutemberg is called “Jacobus,”--James, and is said to be a native of Strasburg. Under the same year John Mentelin is mentioned as a printer at Strasburg.] [Footnote III-48: Fischer, Typograph. Seltenheit. S. 44, 1ste. Lieferung. In this instrument Gutemberg describes himself as “Henne Genssfleisch von Sulgeloch, genennt Gudinberg.”] That Gutemberg had a press of his own is further confirmed by a bond or deed of obligation executed by Dr. Conrad Homery on the Friday after St. Matthias’ day, 1468, wherein he acknowledges having received “certain forms, letters, utensils, materials, and other things belonging to printing,” left by John Gutemberg deceased; and he binds himself to the archbishop Adolphus not to use them beyond the territory of Mentz, and in the event of his selling them to give a preference to a person belonging to that city. The words translated “certain forms, letters, utensils, materials, and other things belonging to printing,” in the preceding paragraph, are in the original enumerated as: “_etliche formen_, _buchstaben_, _instrument_, _gezuge und anders zu truckwerck gehoerende_.” As there is a distinction made between “formen” and “buchstaben,”--literally, “forms” and “letters,”--Schwartz is inclined to think that by “formen” engraved wood-blocks might be meant, and he adduces in favour of his opinion the word “formen-schneider,” the old German name for a wood-engraver. One or more pages of type when wedged into a rectangular iron frame called a “chase,” and ready for the press, is termed a “form” both by English and German printers; but Schwartz thinks that such were not the “forms” mentioned in the document. As there appears to be a distinction also between “_instrument_” and “_gezuge_,”--translated utensils and materials,--he supposes that the latter word may be used to signify the metal of which the types were formed. He observes that German printers call their old worn-out types “_der Zeug_”--literally, “stuff,” and that the mixed metal of which types are composed is also known as “der Zeug, oder Metall.”[III-49] It is to be remembered that the earliest printers were also their own letter-founders. [Footnote III-49: Primaria quædam Document. pp. 26-34.]