Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth century 26

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Henric Letter- Lombardie initials No. 2.1 It is probable that it was Henric Lettersnider who made the
sniàer's ambaras initials, No. 2 of our inventory, to supplement his Black Letter. These, so far as they
survive, are shown in the accompanying specimen. They are to be seen in a little
book headed Dot boec van den houte, the book of the Cross,2 and ending with the equiva¬
lent of: 'Printed at Antwerp by me Henric of Rotterdam, letter-cutter' (figs. 13 and 14).

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The initials were in existence by 1498, for they occur in an octavo ofthat year from
the Priory of Den Hem, a Book of the Hours of the Holy Ghost,3 with the colophon
in Dutch: 'Printed at Den Hem outside Schoonhoven, in the year of our Lord 1498
on the 28th day in March'. Two pages of this book are recomposed in fig. 15.
Types from Gouda Great Frimer віаск Letter N0.3.4 (fig. 17, p. 23). Another type reproducing the same hand

as the English-bodied Black Letter is a Great Primer, No. 3 of our inventory.

Johannes Enschedé thought he recognised it in a Book of the Hours of the Virgin

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l^eb ic 0elefen t;oet 0emieo.

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«Bat ichen uanDë bc0l; ut torte pnOe

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V&at la0l;er aen Dat it iterate
ffuDtr 0t;eDtcl;r Іап0І;ергоІО0І;е
^Dam mao Deerlle man
nepemenocl;enfomt0l;eman

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<6nDebteenrecleenrelppfe

«et;emuftmaoutenpataOtte.

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^pmatföhenDat0r;efrr;ieDe

Fig. 13. English-bodied Black Letter no. i, Lombardie Initials no. 2.
Resetting of the opening page of Jacob van Maerlant,
Dai boec vanden houte, Antwerp, Henric Lettersnider, s.d.

[1] CTV 38 no. 2. Vervliet и 5. of Vita Lydwinae type2: c. 115 G, see vol. 1, pp. 88-89 and Plate

[2] CA Г025 (undated). The only recorded copy is at the City 285; Vervliet T 10. It is shown in the type specimen-book of

Library, Haarlem. Johannes Enschedé of Г768 (see note 3 on p. 24) with his foot-

[3] CA 842, cf. note 3 on p. 10. The Lombardie Initials No. 2 note to this efFeft: 'These letters, and more particularly the

had occurred earlier in Ѵ/яртіе Martijn (CA 1026), dated 1496. matrices, are remarkably unusual and rare' (fig. 21).

[4] CTV 39 no. 3. In HPT designated as: Schiedam, Printer

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Fig. 14. English-bodied Black Letter no. i, Lombardie Initials no. 2.

Resetting of two pages of Jacob van Maerlant, Dat boec mnden boute,

Antwerp, Henric Lettersnider, s.d.

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Fig. 15. English-bodied Black Letter no. i, Lombardie Initials no. 2.

Resetting of two pages of Devote glietiden,

Den Hem, Canonici Regulares, 1498.