The First Women Typographers

Middle ages

• Careers and education for women was unexistant.
• If you weren't married by the age of 16, you were a cotastraphy.

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• Before the invention of the Printing Press Women were involved in writing manuscripts.
• These women were mostly nuns, who have been scribes since the early days of the Church.

Nuns and patrons

• Eusebius (263–339 A.D.)
• Mahaut of Artois (1268–1329)

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• The numerous female scribes of Schäftlarn, Admont and Wessobrunn in twelfth-century Bavaria
• Clara Hatzlerin of Augsburg worked as a copyist (third quarter of the fifteenth century)
• Jeanne de Montbaston of Paris in the mid-fourteenth century worked as a miniaturist and illuminator.

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• Clara Hatzlerin of Augsburg worked as a copyist (third quarter of the fifteenth century)
• Jeanne de Montbaston of Paris in the mid-fourteenth century worked as a miniaturist and illuminator.

Estellina Conat, wife to physician and printer Abraham Conat helped her husband with his book.
"I, Estellina, wife of my master my husband the honored Rabbi Abraham Conat, may he be blessed with children and may his days be prolonged. Amen! wrote this book ‘Investigation of the World’ with the aid of the youth Jacob Levi of Provence of Tarascon, may he live.” — Translation from Amram, p. 32.

Anna rügerin

• The very first woman to ever add her name to the colophon of a printed book as its printer is Anna Rügerin.
• published two folio editions in the summer of 1484 in the imperial city of Augsburg in southern Germany.

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sixteenth Century

• Between 1550 and 1650, at least a hundred and thirty-two women were actively involved in the production or sale of books aimed at the British market alone.
• But very few signed their books.

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