Martin Schott

One of the earliest printers in Strasbourg, his catalog reflected the tastes of the higher classes in Germany at the time of German humanism.

His first known printing was a plenarium, in 1481; his last was the version of Cicero's Philippicae by the early German humanist Jakob Wimpfeling, in 1498.

[2] While he printed a small number of books, they were voluminous, and Schott clearly valued artistic embellishment.

[1] His catalog reflected the interest of the established classes in Strasbourg at the time of German humanism, and contained German versions of a biography of Alexander the Great, of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, and of the 11th-century encyclopedia Elucidarium (a source for the Lucidarium).

[1] His printer's mark was a tree not planted in any soil and displayed in full, with the letters "M.