The portion of a page shown in this connection, being full size and in colors, should convey an idea of the appearance of the Psalter. The four cross lines are for the music notes, which were inserted by hand.
Fust died about 1466 from the plague while at Paris arranging for the sale of books. Schœffer continued to print, and many books came from his presses. The last book he printed, just before his death (about 1502), was, a fourth edition of his Psalter.
THE GUTENBERG BIBLE OF FORTY-TWO LINES
Photographed by Walter Gilliss from the copy for which Henry E. Huntington paid fifty thousand dollars at the sale of Robert Hoe’s library in 1911
THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, ILLUMINATED
Less than half the size of the original which is in the British Museum. Not all pages in the book were decorated like this, and copies in other collections are illuminated in a different style. From Humphrey
The Venetian style of typography and decoration
