Les imprimeurs allemands et leur activité toulousaine à la fin du xve siècle

Abstract

The history of the beginnings of the printing office in Toulouse is the one of a brutal transformation which sees the ruin of the former crafts of the medieval book without benefiting the developers of this technological and cultural innovation. The last two decades of the xvth century are marked by the successive arrival of four German printers : Jean Parix, Henri Turner, Henri Mayer and Étienne Clébat who settle in Toulouse the first press devoted, not only to the local market, but also to the Iberian Peninsula. This ambitious commercial policy collides nevertheless with economic and cultural realities which exceed it and provoke the ruin of the first printers. At the beginning of the xvith Century, the printing office survives in Toulouse, but under a much more modest shape.

Keywords

• Toulouse
• book
• illumination
• printing
• incunables
• Jean Parix