In Nordlingen, the tax list of 1407 gives the name of Joh. Minner, recorded as a _scriptor_. There is an entry of a sale made by Minner to the Burgermeister Protzen of a German translation of the _Decretals_. The tax list of 1415 gives the name of Conrad Horn, described as a _stadtschreiber_. Horn seems to have carried on an extensive business in the production and the exchange of manuscripts. Kirchhoff quotes a contract entered into by him in 1427 with a certain Prochsil of Eystet for the purchase of a _buch_, the title of which is not given, for the sum of forty-three Rhenish gulden. The name of Diebold Lauber has already been mentioned. His inscription appears on a number of manuscripts that have been preserved principally through the Heidelberg University. On the first sheet of a _Legend of the Three Holy Kings_ from this library, is written the following notice, which can be considered as a general advertisement: _Item welche hande bücher man gerne hat, gross oder clein, geistlich oder weltlich, hübsch gemolt, die findet man alle by Diepold Lauber, schreiber in der burge zu hagenow._ Freely translated, this notice would read: “Any books that are desired, whether great or small, religious or profane, beautifully painted (adorned), all of these will one find by Diepold Lauber, scribe in the town of Hagenau.” Among the manuscripts of Lauber, which have been preserved, is a beautiful copy of _Gesta Romanorum, mit den viguren gemolt_, a Bible in rhyme (_eine gerymete bibel, ein salter Latin und Tüstch_). Also a number of _gemolte losbücher_ (illustrated fortune-telling books), etc. In Heidelberg, the name of Wolff von Prunow, _bibliopola_, is recorded early in the fifteenth century, as associated with the university. In Bruges, in 1425, the list of manuscript-dealers is a more important one. It begins with Joorquin de Vüc, who is described as a cleric. He was bookseller to Duke Philip, and is spoken of by Labord as having had an extensive manuscript factory.[392] Colart Mansion has already been referred to. He is recorded in 1450 as an _escripvain_, but a few years later appears in the list of printers and is known as the friend and associate of Caxton. The books of Duke Philip of Burgundy include also the name of the bookseller Hocberque, in 1427, and that of Neste in 1423. In 1456, Morisses de Haat is recorded as an _escripvain de livres_, who rented out books. In order to do this, he must, as Kirchhoff points out, have carried some general stock. A certain Herr van Gruthuyse, a rich collector, of Bruges, bought a number of finely illuminated manuscripts from Jean Paradis, who was in 1470 made a member of the _librariers gild_.