Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Renatus Beck (c. 14-- – 1522) was born in Cologne, and by 1510, he began to work with – and married into the family of – printer Johannes Prüss. Upon Prüss' death in 1511, Beck continued his practice along with his brother-in-law, Johannes Prüss the Younger. Together they moved to Strasbourg, where Beck published one of his first independent works, Vocabularius gemma gemmarum. Once established in the city, at his press called "Tiergarten," Beck executed a number of diocesan commissions, including Missale secundum ritum ecclesiae Bremensis for Kaspar von Mellerstadt, an early Reformation figure. For the remainder of his career, Beck printed both at Tiergarten and in Lübeck, and he published humanist and religious works, as well as a number of classical texts and grammar books. His most notable titles are De vita et moribus by Henricus von Haguenau and Herbarius by Johannes Wonnecke. Beck's monogram serves as the basis for his printing device; a tall, uppercase R overlaps with a smaller B, from which a four-mark extends upward. Notably, this four-mark demonstrates a shift away from the angularity of the standard symbol, and instead, curves softly into the cross at the tip. In fuller versions of the device, this monogram appeared on a shield supported by the mythological Silvanus. This imagery is thought to be a reference to the press at Tiergarten from which Beck worked.