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Excerpt from Printing in the Fifteenth Century
This was the srtuat10n in the Rhine Valley when a young man of good family and comfortable means got himself into trouble at Mainz and had to leave home, leaving also' his property in the control of those unfriendly to him. He settled in the neighboring city of Strassburg, where he man aged to live respectably for more than twenty years. Throughout this period he was able to borrow more money than he was ever able to repay. Some of this was loaned to him in order to participate in something that he was doing that was highly speculative, and which at least once yielded a satisfactory return. What his scheme was is not known with demonstrable certainty, because he was uncannily suc cessful in concealing what he was doing from prying neigh bors. Not once did any unmistakable hint get itself recorded during his lifetime on any piece of paper that has since been found. Hopelessly in debt toward the end of his life, he was given a smecure by the local ruler for services ren dered, but nothing was put on the record to suggest what the services to the state or the community had'been.
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