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The Register of Albert von Behaim is the Earliest Surviving German Document Written on Paper

1246 to 1247
Title page of the first printed edition of Beham's Register, undoubtedly printed on machine-made pape
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Title page of the first printed edition of Beham's Register, undoubtedly printed on machine-made paper.

The earliest surviving manuscript on paper written in Germany is the register of Albert von Beham (Behaim), the dean of the cathedral in Passau, dating from 1246 or 1247. (Clm2574b.)

Bischoff, Latin Palaeography. Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1990) 12.

Timeline Themes

Writing / Palaeography / Calligraphy / Epigraphy
Papermaking by Hand
Survival of Information / Philology