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This was because these cities did not have powerful religious institutions or universities, where competing copyist production ( scriptoria ) took place.
Bellart did not enjoy much success, however, because there were few buyers for his books in Nederduits.
Most people who could afford a book wanted it to be in French, since that was the common language of the ruling classes.
Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.
It is in the possession of the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum and was printed in Utrecht, not Haarlem.
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