Editing Laurens Janszoon Coster (section)

==Story by Ulrich Zell==
There is support for the claim that Coster might be the inventor. In the anonymous ''Kölner Chronik'' of 1499, [[Ulrich Zell]], a printing assistant from [[Cologne]], who was then between the age of 60 and 69 years old, claimed that printing had started in [[Mainz]]. He based this statement on knowledge that Holland used to print Latin grammar texts (''Donatus'').<ref>[http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/glossary/glo_07.html Costeriana]</ref> Neither Coster nor Haarlem are mentioned in that chronicle. If true, this points to [[Johann Gutenberg]] about a decade after Coster's death. However, the first securely dated book by Dutch printers is from 1471, long after Gutenberg.<ref>{{harvnb|Juchhoff|1950|pp=131f.}}</ref> Either way, Coster is somewhat of a Haarlem local "hero", and apart from a statue on the ''Grote Markt'' his name can be found in many places in the city.