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56 THE CHUR BREVIARY OF 1490 guardian within a fortnight's time. It is true that the entry in the ' Regesten ' (no. 694) which supplies this piece of information specifies the widow of Lienhart Ysenhut, not of Adam von Speier ; but that this is an error appears unequivo- cally from other passages in the c Regesten ' them- selves, which show that Ysenhut and his wife Adelheid, after bequeathing to each other their personalty (' ihre fahrende Habe') in 1486, re- newed this mutual bequest at intervals, ' according to the terms of the original record/ until 1500. The widow lost no time in complying with the order of the court, and on 26th June Friedrich zum Rottenfan i.e., the Friedrich Hirsinger already mentioned was formally appointed to the guardianship of her and her children. Here again there is a difficulty in the wording of the entry (no. 698), which speaks of the widow and children of Adam Tsinhutt, but it is scarcely likely that this is anything more than the previous error half corrected. Certainly it would be pleasant to claim Adam von Speier as the third representative of a clan which already figures twice in the records of early printing once with Lienhart Ysenhut, the wood-engraver and printer here mentioned, and again with Johann Eysenhut, who produced a block-book at Ratisbon in the 'seventies, to say nothing of an obscurer Heinrich, who worked, like Lienhart, at Basel ; and it might be urged in further justification of the claim that Jacob von Pforzheim's true surname, Wolff, is only known from a single incidental mention in a document of I5O9. 1 Still, 1 'Regesten,' no. 1841.