Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth century 29

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

in their original condition until 1814, when they were at last justified. The shapes
of the letters show plainly that the type is ancient; but I do not think it is Dutch.
The capitals in particular seem to me to bespeak a French origin.1 I have never
handled a book printed in this type ; and though further research may prove that it
is later in date, I class it as fifteenth-century because Johannes Enschedé thought it
so, and nothing in the fashion of the letters makes his opinion untenable. The speci-

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"ТЦ 0 zeergebrekkelyk gejufteert; en word alteen hiervan een Afdruk vertoond,om de

ЯЧ X zeldzaameOverblyfzelen dereerfte Boekdrukkonfttcgen deeze tegenwoordige

и X Letterproef te vergelyken ; nademaal thans de Lettergietery alhier in Haarlem,

4ц t.) de Geboorteplaatsder Boekdrukkonft, tot de grootlte volmaaktheid gebragt is.

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Fig. 20. Lombardie Initials no. 4 and English-bodied Black Letter no. i,
as they appear in the Enschedé type-specimen of 1768.

[1] This type is not recorded as a fifteenth-century type (reproducedinH.W.Davies, Catalogue... French Boob... С Fairfax

used in the Low Countries in hpt. Dr. H. D. L. Vervliet has Murray, no. 486); Nicolaus Bertrandus, De Tholosanorum gestis,

direfted me (Harry Carter) to some sixteenth-century French Toulouse, Jean Grandjean, 1515 (reproduced by Davies, no.

books in which it can be seen : Bartholomeus Rimbertinus, De 542); Jean de Bassolis, Opera in quatuor sententiarum libros, Paris,

deliciis sensibilibus paradisi, Paris, Jean Petit and Josse Badius, 1514 Nicolas des Prez, 1516-1517. (Adams в-372).

OTHER EARLY GOTHIC TYPES

men given in fig. 19, p. 25, is a resetting of Plate 74 (117) in J. W. Holtrop's Monuments
typographiques.1 It is Part of а poem by Olivier de la Marche, Le chevalier délibéré, printed
at an unidentified press at Gouda; but the type of the original is quite unlike ours.2

Let me add a word about the matrices in these sets. The fact, that they are not quite rk Enschedé
complete is not surprising: what is much more remarkable is their survival until collection of

early matrices

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Gothiie Monnikke Letteren.

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Oude Hollandfe Letteren, van 1470 à 1480.

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Abbreviatuuren.

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Deeze Letteren, en voornaamenlyk de Matryzen,
zyn ongemeen raar en zeldzaam!

Fig. 21. Lombardie Initials No. 2 and Great Primer Black Letter N0.3,
as they appear in the Enschedé type-specimen of 1768.

[1] J. W.Holtrop, Monuments typographiques des Pays-Bas au quin- Nationale, Paris. About the printer see HPT 1, pp. 85-86.

zième siècle, 1868. About the order of publication of the Gouda and Schiedam

[2] The unique copy, formerlyin theRothschild collection, edition see L. and W. Hellinga in Le cinquième Centenaire de l'ini-

ofthe Gouda edition, CA 1083, printed by an anonymous press primerie dans les anciens Pays-Bas, 1973, pp. 518—519, where the

(that of the Collaciebroeders ?) is now in the Bibliothèque Schiedam edition is demonstrated to be the earlier of the two.

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