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X May 7, 2026 at 10:43 AM

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Claim
1482 book by Johannes Trithemius: "In Praise of Scribes: De Laude Scriptorum"
Correction

The date is off by about a decade: Trithemius’s *De laude scriptorum* is associated with 1492 (composition/dedication) and 1494 (printing), not 1482.

Full reasoning

The work being referenced here is not from 1482. Bibliographic records for De laude scriptorum manualium identify it as a work tied to 1492 and printed by Peter Friedberg in 1494. Google Books lists the title as “De laude scriptorum manualium: mit Widmungsbrief des Autors an Gerlach von Breitbach, 1492” and separately lists the publisher/date as “Peter Friedberg, 1494.” Open Library likewise treats it as “An edition of De laude scriptorum (1494).

So the specific date in the post is incorrect: the work was not a 1482 book. If the intent was to date Trithemius’s anti-printing argument, the defensible dates are 1492 for the text/dedication or 1494 for the printed edition.

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Model: OPENAI_GPT_5 Prompt: v1.16.0