Johann Emerich was a printer and typographer from Udenheim, near

Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the r ...

, in the

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in the

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. He was active as a book printer and typographer in

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from 1487, when he collaborated with Johannes Hamman of Landau in the printing of a

breviary A breviary () is a liturgical book used in Christianity for praying the canonical hours, usually recited at seven fixed prayer times. Historically, different breviaries were used in the various parts of Christendom, such as Aberdeen Breviar ...

and a missal, until about 1499, when he spent almost six months on the printing of an illustrated ''Graduale secundum morem sancte Romane Ecclesie'' for the Florentine publisher

Lucantonio Giunti Lucantonio Giunti or Giunta (1457 – 3 April 1538) was a Republic of Florence, Florentine book publisher and printer, active in Venice from 1489, a member of the Giunti (printers), Giunti family of printers. His publishing business was success ...

. Emerich is thought to have died at about this time. His

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s and equipment passed to Giunti and enabled him to establish his own printing workshops. Emerich printed about forty works, of which about thirty were for Giunti. These represented about half the total output of the Giunti imprint in the fifteenth century. With the single exception of the ''Astrolabium'' of Johannes Engel, printed in 1494, all were religious works.

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