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Printer Johann (or Juan) Cromberger (German, active in Spain, about 1527 - 1544)

Binder Rivière

Author Dionisius Rickel (Flemish, 1402-1471)

Author Dionisius Rickel (Denis the Carthusian) (Flemish, 1402--1471)

Place of OriginMexico

Date1544

ClassificationBooks

Object number

1924.1

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Label TextThe first printing press in America was set up in the city of Mexico about the year 1540, by Juan Cronberger of Seville, Spain. This book by Dionisius Rickel, a rare specimen of American incunabula, was printed by Cronberger in 1544. It was another century before a press was established in what is now the United States, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The leading sixteenth-century printers in Spain were Jakob Cromberger and his son,Germans working in Seville. In 1527 Johann (or Jaun) Cromberger took over his father's business' and in 1539 he sent a press and printer named Juan Pablos to Mexico, where he printed eight works. When Archbishop Zumárrage of Mexico wanted a catechism in Spanish and Nahuati to aid in the conversion of Mexican Indians, the Cromberger Press was asked to print it. Although that catechism no longer exists, this 1544 publication includes some arguments written by Zumárraga. This is one of the first books printed in the New World, almost a century before the first book was printed in North America.