quamap&Roli jibaummtiìe noun
nunc loqum teQammra qö gtccu effe
no ímbíü eftrrppra арзйоіо mat#o
qui ргітіш in iu&ea tu angclîu m m
ijcbcams Ittttriö eùiìrìt . I]oc cerar ей
m пойго fecmoue üifrartmt- et touet
Язв гіішіоц tramuto öuat : uno ûe
fonte quctmöuo etißramuitto rae
coimes 40 ö tonano et efrcîo nuntu*
patoreo paurai? tptmnu afferit puet*
Га tömmorquibue utiq; nee in uetrn
inBtumeto рзйГершадіта interpret
teo emmìare quit limit* nee m ñauo
profuit emen&affe :шт multai; gen
rinnt linguie ftriptura äte ttanflata
üoecat fòlla effe que atiöita fimt.fgi --
tut tjec рГшб pfariunmla poütrttur
quatum tanto tuangáia-quoij ntfm
ethfie- шагііеиочпашщ- iueae-io^
tjäneo ♦ coDitum gtcctrç emraîata mk
larione feu uctmttque ne raultì a letti *
опт latine сбШсттпейіГсссрагтг.
itatalamo impetauim?: ut Щв tan*
tum que ГепГшп mttbantur mutate«
гашиш • rcliqua mannt patecenîut
füetät. Cañoneo quoq; quoo eufebt*
uè ееГапепГш epiTmpua allt|âDtinu
Iran? ammoniü in öeci nuraetoe ш*

3. 42-UneBible, Mainz, circa 1455 [211]

Gothic

Texts (4) The vernacular types or Bastardas. In Germany this last group
has been subdivided into (a) Schwabacher, (b) The Upper-Rhine type,
(c)The Wittenberg letter, and (d) Fraktur.1

Now that interest in the black-letter group of type faces is mainly
historical the characteristics of the earliest of the texturas only will be
described here. We have, however, for the sake of completeness, includ¬
ed illustrations and brief descriptions of the other formal gothic types
and of the four Bastardas.

Throughout this book the numbers in square brackets immediately
following the title lines under illustrations refer to the pages on which
short descriptive notes will be found.

Characteristics of the Texturas

The Texturas, the earliest and most formal of the black-letter faces are
upright, angular and heavy letters. Curved strokes hardly occur in the
lower-case but are evident in the capitals. The ascenders and descend¬
ers are short, strokes finishing on the line, e.g. h, i, m, end in diamond
shaped, or pointed feet, and not with serifs as we know them. There
were, of course, considerable variations in the design of types in this
group, some being more condensed, some more open than others, for
example. The heads and feet are more pointed in some texturas than in
others, and the colour, or degree of blackness, varies markedly. In the
other forms of black-letter the angularities of Textura were softened.
Curves.for example,are a feature of the Rotundas,as the name suggests.

•A. F.Johnson.the classification op gothic TYPES.TheLibrary. Vol DC. No 4.
March 1929.

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