Ratdolt, Erhard, book dated ‘1468’ printed by, 46 note; his specimen-sheet, 89. Regiomontanus, Joannes. See Müller. Regnal years of popes and kings of England and France, 171 sqq. Religious feeling in colophons, 57. Reminiscere Sunday, 183. Richel, Bernard, his books before 1474 not dated, 11; adopts a Rougemont colophon, 167. Ricius, Bernardus, colophon quoted, 111. Riessinger, Sixtus, complains of his enemies, 75; relations with F. Tuppo, 76. Roman letter, first book wholly printed in, in England, 118. Rood, Theodoric, his misreckoning by Olympiads, 61, 170; colophon of his ‘Phalaris’ quoted, 61. Rougemont, Cluniac monastery at, colophon of book printed there, 167. Ruppel, Bertold, never dated any of his books, 11. Sabellico, Marc’ Antonio, privilege for exclusive printing granted to, 111. Saints’ days, German books often dated by, 182. Schoeffer, Johann, his account of the invention of printing, 27-29. Schoeffer, Peter, his colophons quoted, 8, 10, 16, 18, 20 sqq.; his glorification of the art of printing, 11; his allusion to his printer’s device imitated by Wenssler, 22; copies one of Valdarfer’s colophons, 161; his own colophons copied by Han, 165, and Wenssler, 168. Scinzenzeler, Ulrich, colophon quoted, 115. Scribes, their influence on printers, xvii. Sensenschmidt and Frisner allude to their device in a colophon, 85. Sidriano, Jo. de, colophon quoted, 58. Sodalitas Celtica of Nuremberg, colophon quoted, 119. Spain, privileges for exclusive printing granted in, 118. Speier. See John of Speier, Wendelin of Speier. Stuchs, Georg, colophon quoted, 146. Sweynheym and Pannartz, their apology for their harsh names, 87. Therhoernen, Arnold, colophon quoted, 92. Title-pages, first appearance of, xvii. Tuppo, Francesco, relations with Riessinger, 76. V misprinted for X, 61; often mistaken for it, 183. Valdarfer, Christopher, colophons quoted, 49, 51; his colophon to his 1474 ‘Confessionale’ unintelligently copied in Germany, 161. Veldener, Jan, mentions his device in a colophon, 84 sq.; one of his colophons pirated by Conrad of Westphalia, 163 sq.; its subsequent history, 165. Venice, colophons quoted, 25-56, 77, 80, 111, 112, 124, 131, 132, 147, 173; Oxford colophon’s allusion to Venice printers, 62; a reference to its foundation, 70; book privileges granted at, 111-113; list of doges of, 173; date when the year began at, 180. Vérard, Antoine, careful address in his colophons, 105; colophons quoted, 105, 117. Verona, colophon quoted, 120. Verse, use of, in colophons, 31; the author’s apology for his renderings, _ib._ Vicenza, books printed at, protected by Venetian privileges, 115. Virgil, verses in Wendelin of Speier’s 1470 edition, 37. War, references to, in colophons, 69 sq. Wendelin of Speier, colophons quoted, 36-41.