Kaspar Hochfeder

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Kaspar Hochfeder
Printer in Metz, 1508–1517

Imprimeur

Hochfeder is recorded as working previously in Nuremberg (first press, 1491–1499), Metz (second press, 1499–1501), Cracow (third press, 1503–1505). The material recorded here is that of his fourth press (second Metz press).


Addresses
References
Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle (1993) t. iii.
E. Vander Vekene, ‘Kaspar Hochfeder: ein europäischer Drucker des 15. Und 16. Jahrhunderts’, BBA, LII, 1974.
Malcolm Walsby, Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600, Leiden, Brill (2020), no. 1375, p. 458–459.
Devices
Types
Name Size Dates Notes
T27 100 1513, 1516 previously used by Pierre Le Dru in Paris
T16 116 1511–1517
Rot94A 56 1515?
66 1511
Rot80 65 1517
80 1513, 1517
Rot20 135 1513–1517
Rot5 180 1513–1514
B12 82 1513
Schwabacher 98 1514
Lombards
Size Dates
3.5 mm 1514
5.0 mm 1514–1515
6.5 mm 1511–1517
10.0 mm 1511–1517
16.0 mm 1511–1517
Initials
Size Dates
47 mm 1514
Signatures
‘$’–‘$4’; ‘$’–‘$v’; ‘$’–‘$iij’.
Catchwords
None

The following books were printed by Kaspar Hochfeder in Metz

7 February 1511
Marchesinus, Johannes.
Mamotrectus super Bibliam.
[Metz]: [Colophon:] Impressum Metis [pr. by C. Hochfeder]. Anno Millesimo quingentesimo vndecimo. Die vero septimo Febrarij [sic] [1511].
4°: A⁸ B⁶ a–t⁸ v⁶.
Printed in Metz with the typographical material of Kaspar Hochfeder.
[View full record]1012.d.47.
1512
Greiffenklau, Richard von, 1467-1531.
Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo duodecimo. Reliquie plurimorum sanctorum et sanctarum nouissime reperte: per ... Richardum ... archipresulem Treuerensem.
[Metz]: [pr. by K. Hochfeder], [1512].
4°: a⁴.
Printed in Metz with the typographical material of Kaspar Hochfeder.
[View full record]C.53.c.16.
1513
[Bible. O.T. Psalms. Latin and German.]
Psalterium cum apparatu uulgari firmiter oppresso. Lateynisch Psalter mit dem teutschen dar bey getruckt.
[Metz]: [Colophon:] Metis impressum per Casparum Hochffeder. Anno .1513. getruckt zu Metz durch Caspar Hochffeder, in dem jar als man zalt Tausent funffhundert vnd dreyzehen [1513].
4°: π⁴ A–C⁸//⁴ D⁸ E–T⁸//⁴ V–Z⁴/⁸.
Printed in Metz by Kaspar Hochfeder.
[View full record]1560/3338.
3 June 1514
Enen, Johann, 1480-1519.
[Medulla gestorum Trevirensium. German.]
Medulla gestorum Treuirensium. Clärlich berichtung des hochwirdigen heyltumbs aller stifft vnd Clöster ... der statt Tryer ...
[Metz]: [Colophon:] in kosten des ersamen Mathie Häne Büchfurers zuo Trier. Gedruckt vnd vollendt durch Caspar Hochfeder, in der freyen stat Metzs ... vff Pfinxt abent, Im jare .M.ccccc. vnd .xiiij. [1514]].
4°: A⁸ B–Q⁴.
Printed in Metz by Kaspar Hochfeder for Matthaeus Häne (Gallus).
[View full record]C.53.bb.9(3).
1515
Donatus, Aelius.
Donatus nouus pro pueris valde vtilis.
[Metz]: Imprime a Mets [pr. by K. Hochfeder], [c. 1515].
4°: a–d⁶.
Printed in Metz with the typographical material of Kaspar Hochfeder.
[View full record]625.c.12.
4 February 1516
Cy est le cheualier aus dames.
[Metz]: [Colophon:] Imprime a Mets par maistre Gaspart Hochfeder, La vigille de saincte Agathe. Lan. Mil. Vc. et. xvi. [1516].
8°: a–c⁶ d–n⁴/⁸ o–r⁴/⁶.
Printed in Metz by Kaspar Hochfeder,
[View full record]C.4.g.14.
13 July 1517
Enen, Johann, 1480-1519.
[Medulla gestorum Trevirensium. Latin.]
Epitome. alias. Medulla Gestorum Treuirorum nuper per ... Ioannem Enen ... Teutonico sermone edita, iam pridem ... in latinum versa fratre Ioanne Scheckmanno.
[Metz]: [Colophon:] Impensis Mathie Haen bibliopole ciuis Treueren. Opera Casparis hochffeder excusoris & ciuis Metensis, die Margarethe. Anno .1517.
4°: a–r⁴.
Printed in Metz by Kaspar Hochfeder for Matthaeus Häne (Gallus) in Trier.
[View full record]9055.b.29.
1517
Arnoldi, Bartholomaeus, von Usingen, 1465-1532.
Regulae Congruitatis & figure Constructionis Cum vicijs grammaticalibus ... Per magistrum Bartholomeum de Vsigen.
[Metz]: [Colophon:] Impressum Metis [pr. by C. Hochfeder]. Anno. 1517.
4°: a–b⁶ c⁴ d⁶.
Printed in Metz with the typographical material of Kaspar Hochfeder.
[View full record]1560/1726.

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