I am a retired Portuguese lawyer married to a British Architect and book binder, paper conservation expert and gold lettering finish hand lettering on veleum and leather. During his course my husband wrote an essay on Guttenberg Press, therefor we were spell bound watching your programme last night. Thank you.
As a wordsmith by desire I came accross the earliest printed book in Portugal, which is The Pentateuco printed in Hebrew characters in Faro, Algarve, Portugal in June 1487.
If this work would be of any interest to you I would be pleased to make it available to.
Shalom Isabel Turner
April 15th - 10:29amIsabel Turner said...
Dear Stephen Fry,
It was an enormous pleasure to see on BB$ your excellen description of the Guttenberg Press.
My husband a retired architect and an excellent book binder has had success with his researche on the same matter during an advance book making, parchment and vellum making and letter setting in gold, from hand carved metal free letters.
But I came from Lisbon and as a retired Portuguese lawyer I am a wordsmith by desire and I am pleased to inform you that the earliest book printed in Portugal is Pentateuco in Hebrew characters, printed in Faro in June 1487.
I have a fax smile copy of this remarkable work which I would be pround to make available to you.
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