Petrus Maufer, also known as Pierre Maufer, Pietro Maufer, or Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, was a 15th-century French printer of incunables, who learned the trade together with Martin Morin when the family Lallemant from Rouen sent them to the Rhine region to learn about book printing. Instead of returning to Rouen with Morin, he travelled to Italy and became one of the earliest known printers in Padua, Verona, Venice and Modena.
Known publications Padua 1474: Pietro d'Abano. Liber Compilationis Phisonomiae 1474: Mondino de Liuzzi. Anatomia 1474: Simon de la Porte: Clavis sanationis 1474: Ps.-Lactantius Placidus, Narrationes fabularum Ovidianarum Before 1475: Matheolus Perusinus. De memoria 1476: Albertus Magnus. De mineralibus. Corr: Nicolaus de Pigaciis 1477: Gentile da Foligno. Commentary on Avicenna. 1478: Giles of Rome. Expositio super libros Analyticorum posteriorum Aristotelis 1479: Justinianus. Digestum novum 1480: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi. Liber nonus ad Almansorem
Verona 1480: Flavius Josephus e.a. De Bello Judaico and De Antiquitate Judaeorum Contra Apionem
Venice 1482: Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Codex 1486: Avicenna. Canon medicinae
Modena 1491: Bartholomaeus Socinus. Repetitio legis Gallus ff. de liberis et posthumis 1492: Johannes Lichtenberger. Pronosticatione in vulgare Johannes Baptista de Caccialupis. De debitoribus susceptis et fugitivis. De pactis. De Transactionibus
Further reading Giovanni Mardersteig, translated by H. Schmoller (London, Nattali & Maurice, 1967). The remarkable story of a book published in Padua in 1477. Gentile da Foligno's commentary on Avicenna printed by Petrus Maufer.
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