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6–28. Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, pages from Lactantius’s Opera

The first religious book printed in Italy, on the first Italian printing press, at the monastery at Subiaco. The text is set in the earliest typeface designed and cast by Sweynheym and Pannartz and shows the first appearance of Greek letters in the history of printing by movable type.

Date
1465CE
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