Beschreibung
Ein Löwe, der eine Säule auf der Schulter trägt, hält einen Schild mit Simson. Darunter die Devise: „Hostibus haud tergo, sed forti pectore notus“ (Catull, 64, 339). – „Crafft Müller (also called Crato Mylius) employed symbols of strength and power in his printer’s mark in allusion to his forename: A puissant lion carries a stone column on its shoulder; while one forepaw of the sturdy beast cradles the base of the column, the other rests on a shield emblazoned with the picture of Samson brandishing the jawbone of an ass. Below the device reproduced here was the Latin motto Hostibus haud tergo, sed forti pectore notus (‚Known to the enemy not by his back, but by his bold front‘) It appeared in a 1538 folio edition of Paraleipomena rerum mentorabilium. This lion, column, and shield device was popular with Müller, and he used nine other variations of it while he was a printer in Strasbourg between 1536 and 1547.“ (Howard W. Winger, in: The Library Quarterly, Vol. 30, Nr. 4, Oct. 1960, p. 280). – Vgl. Friedrich Kapp, Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels (1886), Bd. I, S. 249.
