Name in the specimen ofthe
Widow Elsevier

i Dubbelde Text Kapitalen1

2 Dubbelde Augustijn
Kapitalen3

3 Dubbelde Mediaen
Kapitalen

4 Dubbelde Descendiaen
Kapitalen4

5 Kleene Kanon Romeyn

6 Kleene Kanon Cursijf

7 Ascendonica Romeyn

8 Paragon Cursijf5

9 Text Romeyn
i о Text Cursijf

11 Augustijn Romeyn

12 Augustijn Cursijf

13 Augustijn Romeyn no. 29

14 Augustijn Cursijf [no. 2]

15 Mediaen Romeyn12

16 Mediaen Cursijf"

17 Mediaen Romeyn no. 212

18 Mediaen Cursijf [no. 2]11

19 Descendiaen Romeyn13

20 Descendiaen Cursijf15

21 Garmont Romeyn16

22 Garmont Cursijf17

23 Garmont Grieks18

24 Bourgois Romeyn

25 Bourgois Cursijf

26 Brevier Romeyn19

27 Brevier Cursijf19

28 Brevier Romeyn [No. 2]21

29 Brevier Cursijf [no. 2]"

30 Peerel Romeyn23

31 Augustijn Duyts

32 Mediaen Duyts

33 Mediaen Nooten

34 Descendiaen Duyts

35 Descendiaen Nooten

36 Garmont Duyts

37 Brevier Duyts

38 Colonel Duyts

39 Perei Duyts

40 Robijn Duyts

Punches (P) Origin

or matrices (M)
in 1767

M2

M

M

Name in the specimen of
Job. Elsevier 1658

P

P

P

M

P (caps

P

P
ps

M

M10

M

M

M

M

pi4

p
p

M
M

p
p

p20
p20

M
M24

p
p
p
p
p
p
p
p
p
p
p

ily)7

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Luther6
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Luther6

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Luther6
Luther6
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck

41 English-bodied Black Letter no. i25

42 Great Primer Black Letter no. 3

43 Great Primer Black Letter no. 5

44 Lombardie Initials N0. 2

45 Lombardie Initials No. 4

46 Five-line Capitals No. 7, named 'Chalcographia'

47 English-bodied Civilité No. 8

48 Two-line Small Pica Engrossing Initials no. 10

49 Brevier Greek no. 584

Allotted in 1767
to Enschedé (Ej
or Ploos van
Amstel (Plj

Number in

Enschedé

inventory

Pi
Canon Italicus Minor Pi
E
Paragon Italicum E

E
E
E
E
Pi
Pi
Pi
E
E
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
E
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
E
E
E
Pi
E
E
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi
Pi

Garmont Italicum
Typi Graxi
Bourgois Romanum
Bourgois Italicum

no. 16

no. 590

no. 19

NO. 18
NO. 17

Punchcutter ofthe
types in the Widow
Elsevier's Specimen
(added by H.Carter

Van Dijck

Garamond
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Granjon
Granjon

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Granjon
Granjon"

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Granjon
Granjon
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Granjon
Granjon

Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck
Van Dijck

[1] These are the capitals of the Parysse Kanon shown with its lower case in later specimens of the same material. There is
no indication of the cutter, but the style favours an attribution to Van Dijck.

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[г] See note 4 on p. 91.

Ы Shown also in a specimen by the widow of Johannes
Adamsz and Abraham Ente, с. 1700, and in one by Johannes
Rolu of the same approximate date (Type Specimen Facsimiles 1,
Sheets No. II and No. 15).

[4] A Two-line Brevier type which Plantin called Lectre de
Bréviaire Garamont (Early Inventories p. 18). The punches are
extant in the Museum Plantin-Moretus.

[5] Plantin had this face by 1563 and ascribed it to Granjon
(Early Inventories p. 21). It is in Konrad Berner's Specimen
cliaracterum of 1592, described as Cursijf Parangon de Granlon (see
note 3 on p. 35). The long s is different.

[6] See p. 94. S. Morison, John Fell, 1967, p. 107.

[7] This is а 16th-century face whose style contrasts sharply
with Van Dijck's. It was used by Willem Silvius in Discours
sommier des iustes causes qui ont contraint ¡es Estais Généraux des Pais Bas
de pourvoir à leur dejfence contre le Seigneur Don Iehan d'Austricc (Ant¬
werp, 1577)- Johann Berner showed it in his Specimen (Frankfurt,
1622; Type Specimen Facsimiles 1, Sheet no. 3), naming it 'Romain
Text de Granlon Minion'. The capitals are found ten years
before the lowercase in L. Fuchs, De curandus morbis (Frankfurt,
1567). The similarity of the capitals to those of Granjon's
Paragon Greek make an attribution to him plausible.

The entry for it in the Spécifique Lyst (see note 2 on p. 89)
is Text Rom. en Curs. No. 10 en и op de Catal. met de Stempels van tefeens
en bioeinen,doch van de Romein zyn alleen de Kapit. op de Catal. No. 5:
de Stempels van de Cursyf compleet (Great Primer Roman and Italic
nos. 10 and 11 in the Catalogue with the punches for signs
and flowers, but of the Roman only the capitals are in the
Catalogue, as No. 5; the punches for the Italic complete).

An assumption that particulars given in the list made in
1767 relate to the type-faces shown in the Widow Elsevier's
Specimen of 1681 seems to me (H. Carter) quite unwarranted,
because the types are identified in the list only by their sizes,
and I suspect that this whole table, insofar as it is based on
that assumption, is valueless and may be misleading.

[8] In the Spécifique Lyist this face and its Roman are de¬
scribed as Augustyn Rom. en Curs, op de Catal. No. 12 en 13 met haare
Stempels, schoon de Romeiit alleen ntaar op de Catal .N0.8 stoat (English-
bodied Roman and Italic in the catalogue No. 12 and 13 with
their punches, although only the Roman is in the Catalogue
(No. 8).

[9] Some typefounders also cast it on Pica, and so it ap¬
pears in the sale-catalogue of the printing office in 1755 (List
of type-specimens no. 94) and in the specimen of J. P. Fievet,
of Frankfurt am Main, 1664 (Type Specimen Facsimiles 1, Sheet
no. 4). It is, probably, the Gros Cicero romain Granjon for which
the Le Bé Foundry had matrices (Morison, Le Bé, p. 19).

[10] The Specificcjtie Lyst lists Augustyn Rom. en Curs, op de Catal.
no. ц en 15 maar de Cursyf is kleine Augustyn (English-bodied
Roman and Italic in the Catalogue No. 14 and 15, but the Italic
is on a small English body). No punches are listed for this face.

[11] See Type Specimen Facsimiles 1, p. 17 (Sheets No. 12 and
No. 13).

[12] In the specimen of the Widow Elsevier there are two
faces for Mediaen Roman and two for the Italic. The texts in
which they are shown begin : Condecí Principis (Roman), Interea
Herbtpoli [sic] (Italic), Flavius Vespasianas (Roman), and Condai
Principis (Italic). In the specimen of Jan Roman & Company and
in that issued from the Nieuwe Herengracht the Italics have
changed places, and so the sets appear in the specimen-book

ofthe Brothers Ploos van Amstel (1784) and in the Enschedé
specimen-book of 1768 (see List of type-specimens nos. 132
and 114). According to the Spécifique Lyst Enschedé and the
Brothers Ploos van Amstel each acquired a set.

[13] Abraham van Dijck sold a set of matrices for this
Roman face to Thomas Marshall in 1670 (Hart p. 163), and it
is kept at the University Press, Oxford. S. Morison, John Fell,
1967, pp. 134-135.

[14] The Spécifique Lyst lists for this face Dessendiaan Rom. en
Curs. no. 32, en 11 op de Catal. en de Stempels van de Romeiit en Curs.,
schoon de Cursyf alleen maar no. 15 op de Catal. staat (Small Pica Ro¬
man and Italic No. 32 and 33 in the Catalogue and the punches
of the Roman and the Italic, although only the Italic is in the
Catalogue).

[15] Marshall also bought a set of matrices for the Italic
from Abraham van Dijck, and it is kept at the University
Press, Oxford (Hart p. 163). S. Morison, John Fell, 1967, p. 147.

[16] S. Morison, John Fell, 1967, p. 136.

[17] This is Granjon's Valentine, which Plantin had by 1577
(Early Inventories pp. 76—77). It appears as Curs. Garamond ou
Immortel de Granlon in the Specimen characternm of Johann Berner,
1622 (see note 3 on p. 35). The J Q U W do not belong to the
original set and they may be by Van Dijck. The Le Bé Foundry
owned the punches for this face (Morison, Le Bé, p. 24). Some
punches and 120 matrices are kept at the University Press,
Oxford; S. Morison, John Fell, 1967, p. 141.

[i8]- This is the fPetit RotnmainJ Grec de Granjon, for which
Plantin had matrices by 1560 (Early Inventories p. 11). It figures
as Grece. Garamond de Granlon in the Berner specimens of 1592
and 1622. The punches belonged to the Le Bé Foundry
(Morison Le Bé p. 25).

[19] Abraham van Dijck sold matrices for the Roman and
the Italic to Thomas Marshall in 1670 (Hart p. 163), and they
survive at the University Press, Oxford. The style of the
Roman is characteristic of Van Dijck. See Morison, John Fell,
1967, pp. 137, 141.

[20] The Spécifique Lyst lists for the Roman and the Italic
Groóte Brevier Rom. en Curs. No. 46 en 47 op de Catal. en de Cursyfsche
Stempels compleet: doch de Romeinsche Defect No. 24 en 25 op de Catal.
(Large Brevier Roman and Italic no. 46 and 47 in the Cata¬
logue, and the punches for the Italic complete, but those for
the Roman defective No. 24 and 25 in the Catalogue).

[21] This is the Gaillarde, a big Brevier face, cut by Granjon.
A specimen of it in the Museum Plantin-Moretus is headed
Epreuue de la petitte Antique ou Romaine, de Rob. Granlon nommée la
Gaillarde, eu Anuers 1570 (Arch. Plant, vol. 153, f. 20); reproduced
in Gedenhboelc der Plantin-dagen 1555—1955, 1956, fig. 3, (following
p. 248). See also Early Inventories p. 44.

[22] This is the Breuiaire Italique attributed by Plantin to
Granjon (Early Inventories p. 11). Jean de Tournes at Lyons had
it by 1556 (ibidem). It is, probably, the Italique petit Texte dernière
Granjon for which Le Bé owned the punches (Morison, Le Bé
p. 24).

[23] S. Morison, John Fell, 1967, p. 137.

[24] The Spécifique Lyst lists for this Italic and the preceding
Roman Brevier Rom. en Curs. No. 48 en 49 op de Cata!, met een palje
zo gejusteerde als ongejtisteerde (Brevier Roman and Italic No. 48
and 49 in the Catalogue with a packet containing justified
[matrices] as well as unjustified [strikes]).

[25] The typefaces mentioned as Nos. 41-49 are discussed
on pp. 6-16, 20-29, 33, 38-43, 46,101-107.

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