[59] The entry at the end of the first volume is--“Et sic est finis prime partis biblia Scz. veteris testamenti, Illuminata seu rubricata & ligata per Henricum Albch alias cremer. Anno dni M^oCCCC^oLVI festo Bartholomei apli--Deo gratias--Alleluja.” That on the end of the second volume:--“Iste liber illuminatus, ligatus & completus est per Henricum cremer vicariū ecclesie collegiate sancti Stephani maguntini sub anno dni Millesimo quatringentisimo quinquagesimo sexto, festo Assumptionis gloriose virginis Marie, Deo gracias. Alleluja, &c.” [60] With the exception of the first ten or eleven pages, which contain but forty or forty-one lines in each column. [61] The doubt was not only natural, but there is an almost absolute certainty that the letters could not have been cast at the time. Schœffer’s invention of cast fusile types did not take place,--or at any rate was not made use of,--until after the lawsuit between Gutenberg and Faust. [62] HUMPHREYS, p. 84. [63] “Post hæc inventis successerunt subtiliora, inveneruntque modum fundendi formas omnium latini alphabeti litterarum, quas ipsi matrices nominabant ex quibus rursum aeneos sive stanneos caracteres fundebant, ad omnem pressuram sufficientes, quas prius manibus sculpebant. Et revera sicuti ante XXX. ferme annos ex ore Petri Opilionis de Gernsheim, civis moguntini qui gener erat primi artis inventoris, audivi, magnam a primo inventionis suæ hæc ars impressoria habuit difficultatem. Impressuri namque Bibliam, priusquam tertium complessent in opere quaternionem, plusquam 4000 florenorum exposuerunt.” [64] This statement no doubt included Gutenberg’s personal outlay, in addition to the moneys advanced by Faust. [65] “Most of the punch-cutters at present belonging to the type-founding trade are English, and their earnings depend in a great measure upon the abilities they display in the work. A first-rate cutter will earn from £5. to £6. weekly, and even more. ‘When I first came to the trade,’ said a man to Mr. Mayhew, ‘the punch-maker who worked for my old master, had £5. a week for producing two punches a day. This was all he was expected to do for his wages; but for every punch he turned out over and above that number he had his regular premiums.’”--MAYHEW’S _Trades and Manufactories of Great Britain_, p. 250. [66] “I shall use my best endeavours to detect and expose false or exaggerated statements and deceitful arguments, come from whom they may; leaving such good proofs and reasonable grounds of belief, on the one side or the other as may then remain, to be incorporated afterwards with such further proofs as have resulted from my own researches. Lastly ... I shall strive to merit the praise of not overstating the evidence one way or the other, and of not pressing an argument further than it will fairly go; it being my sole object to come if possible, at the truth, in this long disputed question.”--_Inquiry concerning the Invention of Printing_, p. 5. [67] _Inquiry_, pp. 49-51.