Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler (ca.
[1] Before 1488[citation needed] he married Salome Mentelin, a daughter of the well-known Straßburg printer Johannes Mentelin, in whose printing shop he assisted.
[1] He used to cooperate with Johann Amerbach, a printer from Basel, from which he used some sets of types in 1481.
[2] In the Rationale divinorum officium, printed by Rusch in or before 1474, he was the first to use the Antiqua type which had originated in Italy; in this type Rusch issued Latin classics, including works by Plutarch and Seneca.
In the 19th century his work had not yet been attributed to him and was ascribed to the R-printer because of the peculiar shape of the capital 'R' used by him.