Typographorum Emblemata

Dietmar Peil

Early Modern Munich Printer’s Marks (and Related Issues)

The research into Early Modern Munich printer’s marks has, whatever the reasons, been stagnating. Already the founding father of this research area, Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736), has left the Munich printers and publishers unmentioned in his Thesaurus Symbolorum ac emblematum (about 1730).530 Heinrich Grimm only mentions the Munich (?) printer and publisher Adam Berg the Elder in his 1965 standard work on printer’s signets, Deutsche Buchdruckersignete des XVI. Jahrhunderts, in the context of a pictorial motif that can hardly be considered to be Adam Berg’s printer’s mark531; but two years later he made up for this negligence and displayed Berg’s actual printer’s/publisher’s ...