On the sixth day of October, 1459, Fust published the _Rationale Durandi_, or the exposition, by Durandus, of the services of the church. It is a folio of 160 leaves, 2 columns to the page, in types on English body, 63 lines to the column. It has many rubricated letters and lines, and ends with a colophon, in red ink, worded like the _Psalter of 1457_, but with the addition of the words, “clerk of the diocese of Mentz,” after the name of Peter Schœffer. The statement in the colophon, that it was made without the writing of a pen, is not entirely true. There are two kinds of copies: one has printed capitals like those of the _Psalter_, the other has illuminated initials. To provide suitable spaces for these written initials, which are of large size, the types were overrun and re-arranged. If Schœffer had been an able calligrapher, he would have [p461] demonstrated his ability by the production of types of finer proportions than those of Gutenberg. If he was an expert type-founder, and the inventor of the type-mould, he should have proved his skill by casting types of neater finish. The first types made by him or by his order after his separation from Gutenberg are exhibited in the _Rationale Durandi_, but they do not warrant the opinion that he was a very skillful designer or an ingenious type-founder. The combination of Gothic and Roman which he there exhibited is evidently an imitation of the Round Gothic face used by Gutenberg in the _Letters of Indulgence_ and the _Catholicon_. Schœffer’s types present no features of superiority: they show mannerisms of engraving so like those of Gutenberg’s types as to lead to the opinion that both were made by the same punch-cutter. [Illustration: Fac-simile of the Text Types of the Rationale Durandi. [From Bernard.]] In the following year (1460), Schœffer and Fust finished a stout folio, which was printed in a Round Gothic face on the larger body of Great-primer. This book, the _Constitutions_ (or Body of Divinity) _of Pope Clement V, with the Commentaries of Bishop John Andrew_, has been much admired by bibliographers for its composition. The fac-simile on a following page shows the text of the pope nested in the commentaries of the bishop—truly “a rivulet of text in a meadow of notes.” In some pages the text occupies about one-third, in other pages about one-sixth, of the space assigned to the print. [p462] The composition of pages so unevenly balanced must have taxed the ingenuity of the compositor, but he was materially aided by the licence permitting frequent use of abbreviations. [Illustration: Fac-simile of the Types of the Bible of 1462. [From Bernard.]]