How to Pronounce Bernhard von Mallinckrodt
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Nov 29, 1591 Ahlen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Died on 07 Mar 1664 (aged 72)
German bibliophile
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About Bernhard Von Mallinckrodt
- Bernhard von Mallinckrodt (29 November 1591 in Ahlen — 7 March 1664, Burg Ottenstein), dean (Domdechant) of Münster Cathedral, was a bibliophile from a noble family of Protestants, who converted to Catholicism. In 1639 he issued a pamphlet at Cologne to mark the bicentennary of the invention of printing by moveable type in Europe, defending the priority of Gutenberg; it was titled De ortu et progressu artis typographicaecode: lat promoted to code: la ("Of the rise and progress of the typographic art"), that includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabulacode: lat promoted to code: la , "the first infancy of printing".
- This gave rise to the term incunabula, which is still used to describe books and broadsheets printed before 1500, the arbitrary cut-off date selected by Mallinckrodt.
