Gothic type
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Black letter, a style of type or lettering characterized by a heavy face and angular outlines; used chiefly by the earliest European printers and sometimes for the printing of German; called also Gothic, Old English.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Leaf from A Digest of Civil Law, 1491
Item — Box 2, Folder: 8, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 8
Scope and Contents
A leaf from "A Digest of Civil Law" by Andrea Torresano of Asolo. The work demonstrates the gothic type in its most picturesque form. Issued in 1491, it is an incunabula. The recto side of the leaf is marked LXII.
Dates:
Issued: 1491
Nuremberg Chronicle leaf, 1493
Item — Box 1, Folder: 11, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 11
Scope and Contents
From the "Nüremburg Chronicle". It was printed in Nüremburg by Anton Koberger in 1493. The "Nüremburg Chronicle" contained over 300 leaves and about 1,900 woodcuts. The type is a modified Gothic that was commonly used with the Nüremburg printers. This ambitious publishing feat is known as the Picture Book of the Fifteenth Century. The recto side of the leaf is marked CCXXII in the upper right hand corner; the verso side is unmarked.
Dates:
1493