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KOSTER (or COSTER), See also:LAURENS (c. 1370–1440)  , Dutch printer, whose claims to be considered at least one of the inventors of the See also:art (see See also:TYPOGRAPHY) have been recognized by many investigators . His real name was See also:Laurens Janssoen-See also:Koster (i.e. sacristan) being merely the See also:title which he See also:bore as an See also:official of the See also:great See also:parish See also:church of See also:Haarlem . We find him mentioned several times between 1417 and 1434 as a member of the great See also:council, as an See also:assessor (scabinus), and as the See also:city treasurer . He probably perished in the See also:plague that visited Haarlem in 1439–1440; his widow is mentioned in the latter See also:year . His descendants, through his daughter See also:Lucia, can be traced down to 1724 . See See also:Peter Scriver, Beschryvinge der Stad Harlem (Haarlem, 1628) ; Scheltema, Levensschets See also:van Laurens d . Koster (Haarlem, 1834) ; Van der Linde, De Haarlemsche Costerlegende (See also:Hague, 1870) .

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