Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Thomas Anshelm (c.1465 – c. 15--) was born in Baden circa 1465, and twenty years later he matriculated at the University of Basel. By 1488, he issued his first production, Epistolae et Evangelia, in Strasbourg. In the following decade, Anshelm established himself as an independent printer in the city of Pforzheim, where he became acquainted with Johannes Reuchlin, the notable humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew literature. In 1511, Anshelm moved to Tübingen and began to print regularly for Reuchlin using both Greek and Hebrew typesets. For the remainder of his career, Anshelm was stationed in Hagenau; there he focused on the publication of classical texts, grammar books, religious missals, and humanist literature and worked for several contemporary printers, including Franz Birckmann, Johann Knobloch, Hans Koberger, and Lucas Alantsee. Among his most significant works are Opusculum de sagis maleficis by Martin Plantsch and Grammaticae institutiones by Heinrich Bebel. Anshelm's son-in-law Johann Setzer assumed operation of his printing press following his death. Among the several variations of his printer's mark, Anshelm consistently used a similar monogram: a large T with the letters A.B. extending outward from the vertical base. The B is thought to signify Baden, the printer's region of origin. The mark in the Vassar Library shows this monogram delicately inscribed in an orb, with the upper portion of the T providing the traditional horizontal hemisphere division. A highly stylized four-mark ornaments the top of the device. As a tribute to his work with Johannes Reuchlin, Anshelm included the Greek and Hebrew spellings of the name "Jesus," usually on scrolls supported by cherubim, in his full device. In later versions, he combined the Hebrew word and the four-mark symbol within a decorative interlace.