Note 68 — Early Typography. CHAPTER III.
Reading edition
In a book of notes, left with one Gerlach, and afterwards purchased by Johan Rot, the brother in all probability of Berthold Rot, the first printer at Basle, there occurs the following memorandum, in Schœffer’s own handwriting:—“Hic est finis omnium librorum tam veteris quam nove logice, completi per me Petrum de Gernszheim, alias Moguncia, anno M.CCCC.XLIX, in gloriosissima Universitate Parisiensi.”—(Humphreys, p. 84.) His name, variously spelt as Schöffer, Schœffer, Schoiffer, and Schoiffher, and signifying in English, Shepherd, is sometimes printed in its Latin form, Opilio.