In 1467, on the 4th November, an edition of the _Vocabularius ex quo_ was published. The colophon tells us that the book was begun by Henry Bechtermuntze, and finished by his brother Nicholas in partnership with a certain Wygand Speyss of Orthenberg. A second edition was published in June 1469 by Nicholas Bechtermuntze alone. Both these editions are printed in the type used for the _Catholicon_ of 1460, but with a few additional abbreviations. In 1472 a third edition of the _Vocabularius ex quo_ was issued, in a type very similar to the type of the thirty-one line _Letters of Indulgence_, but slightly smaller; and an edition of the _Summa de articulis fidei_ of Aquinas [Hain, *1426] was issued in the same type. In 1477 a fourth edition of the _Vocabularius ex quo_ was printed by Nicholas Bechtermuntze; the type is different from that used in the other books, and is identical, as Mr. Hessels tells us, with that used about the same time by Peter Drach at Spire. Before leaving Mainz, it will be as well to notice the books printed by the Brothers of the Common Life at Marienthal. This monastery was close to Mainz on the opposite side of the river, and not far from Eltvil. The earliest book is a _Copia indulgentiarum per Adolphum archiepiscopum Moguntinum concessarum_, dated from Mainz in August 1468, and presumably printed in the same year. In 1474 they issued the _Mainz Breviary_, a book of great rarity, and of which the copies vary; in fact, of certain portions there seem to have been several editions. Their latest piece of printing with a date is a broadside indulgence of 1484, of which there is a copy at Darmstadt. Dr. F. Falk, in his article ‘_Die Presse zu Marienthal im Rheingau_,’ mentions fourteen books as printed at this press; but he includes some printed in a type which cannot with certainty be ascribed to Marienthal. The Brothers seem to have used only two types, both of which are found in the _Breviary_. Both are very distinctive, especially the larger, which is a very heavy solid Gothic letter, easily distinguishable by the curious lower case _d_. CHAPTER III. SPREAD OF PRINTING IN GERMANY. Before 1462, when the sacking of Mainz by Adolf von Nassau is popularly supposed to have disseminated the art of printing, presses were at work in at least two other German towns, Strasburg and Bamberg. The first of these places is mentioned by Trithemius, who records that after the secret of printing was discovered, it spread first to Strasburg. Judging merely from authentic dates, this is evidently correct, for we have the date 1460 for Strasburg, and 1461-62 for Bamberg. There are, however, strong reasons for supposing that this order is hardly the correct one, and that Bamberg should come first. Since, however, the statement and the dates exist, it will be safer for us provisionally to consider Strasburg as the first, and state later on the arguments in favour of Bamberg.