Johann Emerich was a printer and

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from Udenheim, near

Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...

, in the

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in the

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. He was active as a

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and

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from 1487, when he collaborated with

Johannes Hamman Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...

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in the printing of a breviary and a missal, until about 1499, when he spent almost six months on the printing of an illustrated ''Graduale secundum morem sancte Romane Ecclesie'' for the Florentine publisher

Lucantonio Giunti Lucantonio Giunti or Giunta (1457 – 3 April 1538) was a Florentine book publisher and printer, active in Venice from 1489, a member of the Giunti family of printers. His publishing business was successful, and among the most important in the ...

. Emerich is thought to have died at about this time. His fonts and equipment passed to Giunti and enabled him to establish his own printing workshops. Emerich printed about forty works, of which about thirty were for Giunti. These represented about half the total output of the Giunti imprint in the fifteenth century. With the single exception of the ''Astrolabium'' of

Johannes Engel Johannes Engel (2 March 1453 – 29 September 1512), also known as Johannes Angelus, was a doctor, astronomer and astrologer from Aichach, near Augsburg, which at that time was a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire. He practiced m ...

, printed in 1494, all were religious works.

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