It was in the following year that Sensenschmidt published the _Missale Olumucense_,[19] in 1489 the _Liber Missalis Bambergensis_. Mr. Weale[20] mentions two other editions from this press in the two following years. The letters reproduced here were taken from the copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, in which there are ten of these special red initials, beginning with the A of the opening line of the mass (_Ad te Dominum_), and comprising one of each of the following: B, C, D, E, P, R, S, and two different varieties of the T. There is besides a large historiated T, in black, representing the sacrifice of Abraham, at the commencement of the Canon of the Mass (_Te igitur_). This is the only volume that we have been able to examine personally, but we have seen a G in a collection of initials with a different text on the verso, which probably comes from one of the other editions. [19] See also in Burger, _Monumenta Germaniae et Italiae Typographica, Deutsche und Italiänische Inkunabeln_. [20] _Bibliotheca Liturgica._ Of other Bamberg missals with other ornamental letters, the most interesting is that of Johann Pfeyl, the initials being entirely different in style to any that we have seen elsewhere. The colophon has it: ‘Missale speciale divinorum officiorum secundum chorum alme et imperialis ecclesie Bambergensis,’ and states that it was printed in 1506 ‘by the industry and exact diligence of that “disert” and expert master Johann Pfeyl.’ In the splendid full-page engraving on vellum, which in many missals is the chief attraction to collectors, there is a view in the distance of the town of Bamberg. The initials are so curious that we have reproduced them all. One or two are repeated; the G, representing Jehovah crowning a martyr, serves for three different saints. The somewhat smaller linear T, of the Canon of the Mass, is a reduced copy of the corresponding initial in the Sensenschmidt missals. CHAPTER VI STRASBURG AND REUTLINGEN With Knoblochtzer, Schott, and Prusz, the first commencing in 1477, Grüninger and Hupfuff at the end of the fifteenth century, we have printers who made a liberal use of initials. Knoblochtzer has been thoroughly explored by MM. Schorbach and Spirgatis, and a monograph upon Strasburg book-illustration has been published by Dr. Kristeller. Although many of our specimens were known to these bibliographers, a few of them, and these by no means the least interesting, have escaped their observation. One of them, the splendid A representing Jesus washing the feet of a disciple, is what one might expect to find at the beginning of a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century manuscript, and the artist in cutting it has managed to make it retain this appearance.