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488 importance of types, who did nothing with his great discovery. His discovery, if it can be so called, was useless. He cannot be rated as an inventor of printing, for he printed nothing.

John Mentel, of Strasburg, who died in December, 1478, and was buried in the great cathedral of that city, has there a tablet to his memory, which contains the following inscription:

The claim that Mentel was the inventor of typography was first made in 1520 by John Schott, son of Martin Schott, who had married Mentel's daughter and inherited his business.