Petrus Maufer

Petrus Maufer, also known as Pierre Maufer, Pietro Maufer, or Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, was a 15th-century French printer of incunables, who learned the trade together with Martin Morin when the family Lallemant from Rouen sent them to the Rhine region to learn about book printing. Instead of returning to Rouen with Morin, he travelled to Italy and became one of the earliest known printers in Padua, Verona, Venice and Modena.

Known publications

Padua

• 1474: Pietro d'Abano. Liber Compilationis Phisonomiae
• 1474: Mondino de Liuzzi. Anatomia
• 1474: Simon de la Porte: Clavis sanationis
• 1474: Ps.-Lactantius Placidus, Narrationes fabularum Ovidianarum
• Before 1475: Matheolus Perusinus. De memoria
• 1476: Albertus Magnus. De mineralibus. Corr: Nicolaus de Pigaciis
• 1477: Gentile da Foligno. Commentary on Avicenna.
• 1478: Giles of Rome. Expositio super libros Analyticorum posteriorum Aristotelis
• 1479: Justinianus. Digestum novum
• 1480: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi. Liber nonus ad Almansorem

Verona

• 1480: Flavius Josephus e.a. De Bello Judaico and De Antiquitate Judaeorum Contra Apionem

Venice

• 1482: Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Codex
• 1486: Avicenna. Canon medicinae

Modena

• 1491: Bartholomaeus Socinus. Repetitio legis Gallus ff. de liberis et posthumis
• 1492: Johannes Lichtenberger. Pronosticatione in vulgare
• Johannes Baptista de Caccialupis. De debitoribus susceptis et fugitivis. De pactis. De Transactionibus

Further reading

• Giovanni Mardersteig, translated by H. Schmoller (London, Nattali & Maurice, 1967). The remarkable story of a book published in Padua in 1477. Gentile da Foligno's commentary on Avicenna printed by Petrus Maufer.