Measurement

English Old Body Approximate foreign equivalents

Inches

American

Didot

points

points

.236

.2368

16

.2491

18

.261

.2664

18

.2767

20

.289

.296

20

.3044

22

.3256

22

.3321

24

•333

•3552

4

.378

.4151

30

•444

ЗО

.470

.4881

36

.5328

З6

.5811

42

.66

.6642

48

.668

.7104

48

Great Primer

Paragon

Double Pica

Two-line Pica

Dutch

French

Text

Gros romain

Groóte Paragon
or Ascendonica

Palestine

Two-line English Kleine Kanon Petit canon

Four-line Pica Sabon

Sabon

German

Tertia

(Kleine) Paragon Petit parangon Text

Gros parangon Grobe Text

Doppel Cicero
Doppel Mittel

Two-line Great Primer Groóte Kanon Trismégiste Kleine Kanon

French Canon Parijsche Kanon Gros canon Kanon

Kleine Missal

456

TABLE OF TYPEFACES

BLACK LETTER

ROMAN AND ITALIC

GERMAN VERNACULAR

GREEK

ARABIC

ARABIZED MALAY

ROMANIZED MALAY

SYRIAC

ARMENIAN

HEBREW

RABBINICAL

SCRIPT

OUTLINE SHADED
TITLING CAPITALS
GREEK TITLING CAPITALS
TWO-LINE SCRIPT CAPITALS
OUTLINE SHADED CAPITALS
ORNAMENTED TITLING CAPITALS

INITIALS

PSALM-NOTES

MUSIC TYPE

SIGNS

ORNAMENTS

VIGNETTES

No. in our
inventory Body

Puitchcutter

Cut foi

BLACK LETTER

Previous Owner

Acquired

in Earliest Specimen

Figure No.

Page

15TH CENTURY

I

English

2

Lombard initials

3

Great Primer

4

Lombard initials

5

Great Primer

Henr. Lettersnijder Himself

Henr. Lettersnijder Himself

Cornelis Henricz. Himself

Cornells Henricz. Himself

Jan Roman & Co.

1767

Jan Roman & Co.

1767

Jan Roman & Co.

1767

Jan Roman & Co.

1767

Jan Roman & Co.

1767

Joh. Enschedé, 1768
Joh. Enschedé, 1768
Joh. Enschedé, 1768
Joh. Enschedé, 1768

1-18, 20 6-i6, 23-25,28

7, 9,13-18, 21 20, 23-25

17,18, 21 20-25, 28

20 22,23-25

19 25-27,29

17TH CENTURY

17

Small Pica

Chr. van Dijck

Himself

Jan Roman & Co

18

Pica

Chr. van Dijck

Himself

Jan Roman & Co

«9

English

Chr. van Dijck

Himself

Jan Roman & Co

556

38

39

Long Primer
Brevier
Small Pica

Elix & Co.
Harmsen & Co.
Harmsen & Co.

1767 Widow of D. Elsevier, 1681 51, 56, 57 101

1767 Widow of D. Elsevier, 1681 50,54,55 101

1767 Widow of D. Elsevier, 1681 49,52,53 101

1847 A. & H. Bruyn, с 1760 n6 140,141

1818 J. de Groot, 1781 122 145

1818 J. de Groot, 1781 123 145

18TH CENTURY

550

Pearl

J. M. Fleischman

Himself

Joh. Enschedé

553

Minion

J. M. Fleischman

R. Wetstein

Joh. Enschedé

554

Brevier

J. M. Fleischman

R. Wetstein

Joh. Enschedé

557

Long Primer

J. M. Fleischman

R. Wetstein

Joh. Enschedé

558

Small Pica

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

560

Pica

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

561

English

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

562

Great Primer

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

563

Paragon

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

565

Two-Line Great Primer

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

564

Two-Line English

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

551

Ruby

J. M. Fleischman

Martin Weyer

Ploos van Amstel

549

Ruby

J. M. Fleischman

I. and Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

93

Pearl

J. M. Fleischman

Joh. Enschedé

Joh. Enschedé

796

Pica

J.-F. Rosart

J. L. Pfeiffer

Ploos van Amstel

797

Small Pica

J.-F. Rosart

J. L. Pfeiffer

Ploos van Amstel

1743 H. Fl. Wetstein, 1743

1743 H. Fl. Wetstein, 1743

1743 H. Fl. Wetstein, 1743

1743 H.Fl. Wetstein, 1743

1743 I. and Joli. Enschedé, 1744

1744 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1744
1744 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1744
1744 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1748
1744 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1748

1748 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1748

1749 I. and Joh. Enschedé, 1748
1799 Ploos van Amstel, 1767
1760 Joh. Enschedé, 1768

1762 Joh. Enschedé, 1768

!799 J.-F. Rosart, 1752

1799 J.-F. Rosart, 1752

170-

-72- 204

197, 207

203,

204

207

205,

206

207

210,

211

216

215,225

224

226-

-228

224

229

224

232

225

233

"5

241

226

242

226

250

231,232, 240

262

240

266

241

312.313

259, 260

34. il5

259, 260

457