One of the results of the Reformation had been, as will be noted in the chapter on Luther, to transfer the centre of literary activity from the south to the north of Germany. Previous to this time, Nuremberg had been conveniently enough located for the publishing trade and for the distribution of books, but, if it had not been for the energy and enterprise of Koberger, it would doubtless have been very much outclassed in the importance of its book-trade by some one of the cities possessing facilities for water transportation. Koberger appears not to have been a bigoted Romanist, but his sympathies were on the whole with the Church party, and his theological publications, which formed by far the most important portion both of his undertakings and of his retail stock, were nearly all in line with conservative Catholic theology. The sales of all the older theological works, the writings of the Fathers, etc., were very much lessened by the effects of the Reformation, and, after the Reform doctrine had begun to take root in Nuremberg, this division of the business of the Kobergers was materially interfered with. Notwithstanding the very considerable demand that came up in Nuremberg for the writings of the Reformers, the imprint of Anthoni Koberger appears never to have been associated with any of these. In order to indicate the general character of his undertakings, I give the titles of some of the more characteristic of his publications. I omit half a dozen volumes issued prior to 1473, which have not certainly been identified as Koberger’s. 1473. “Boethii Liber de Consolatione Philosophiæ, c. comm. Thomæ de Aquino.” (Reprinted four or five times later.) 1474. “Duns Scoti, in quartum librum sententiarum.” 1475. “Thomæ de Aquino, glossa continua super quatuor Evangelistas Biblia Latina.” 1477. “Walteri Burley, Libellus de Vita et Moribus Philos. et Poetarum.” “Biblia Latina.” 1478. “Biblia Latina.” (Printed twice in this year.) “Antonini Summæ Theologicæ, pars prima.” “Ludolphi Carthusiensis, Vita Christi.” 1479. Gritsch, Joannis, “Quadragesimale.” 1480. “Biblia Latina.” Duranti, Gulielmi, “Rationale Divinorum Officiorum.” Petrus Daubussen. “Relatio de Obsidione Urbis Rhodiæ.” 1481. “Biblia Latina cum postillis.” Nicolai de Lyra, 4 vols. “Duns Scoti, in quatuor libros. Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.” “Æneæ Sylvii Epistolæ.” 1482. “Biblia Latina.” “Clementis Papæ V. Constitutiones c. apparatu.” “Alexandri de Ales Summæ Theologicæ pars prima, pars tertia, pars quarta.” “Justiniani pandectarum opus. Digestum vetus Glossatum.” 1483. “Die Deutsche Bibel, mit Bildern.” This was the version which preceded Luther’s by about a third of a century. “Hugonis de Prato Sermones Dominicales Super Evangelia et epist.” “Vincentii Belluacensis Speculum Historiale.” “Vincentii Belluacensis Speculum Naturale.”