[Illustration: MATTHIAS BIENER (APIARIUS).
Ερευνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς, οτι ἐμ ἀυταῖς
ζωὴμ ἀιώνιομ ἔχετε. Ioan. 5.
Vrsus insidians & esuriens, princeps impius super
populum pauperem. Thre. 3. Prouerb. 28.
Quam dulcia faucibus meis eloquia tua,
super mel ori meo. Psal. 118.
Omnia probate, quod bonum
fuerit tenete. 1. Thess. 5.]
[Illustration: CRAFT MÜLLER.
Alma Spicifera Flaua
CERES.
Ni purges & molas non comedes.]
[Illustration: THEODOSIUS RIHEL, JOSIAS RIHEL (UND DEREN ERBEN).]
Wendelin Rihel was the founder of one of the longest-lived dynasties of
Strassburg printers, who were issuing books from 1535 to 1639; their
eighteen Marks have all the same subject, a winged figure of Sophrosyne,
holding in one hand a rule, and in the other a bridle and halter. Of
Thiebold Berger, who appears to have been in business from 1551-1584,
very little is known, either of his books or his personality; his Mark
is, however, pretty, and unique, so far as Strassburg is concerned.
Lazarus Zetzner and his successors, whose works date from 1586 to 1648,
and whose Marks number nearly thirty, all variants of the example here
given: it is a bust of Minerva supported on a short square pedestal, on
which is inscribed the words “Scientia immutabilis.” This family printed
a large number of works, from a Lutheran Bible to Aretini’s “Historiæ
Florentinæ.” As an example of a rare and distinct Mark we give one of
two employed by Conrad Scher, 1603-31, which was subsequently used by
Johannes Reppius, also of Strassburg. Curiosity is the only feature of
the solitary example of David Hauth, 1635.
[Illustration: LAZARUS ZETZNER.