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Digesti Novi
Digesti Novi
[Wendelin, of Speier, -...
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Digesti Novi
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[Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?, Saxoferrato, Bartolus de, 1314-1357]
Summary
This folio leaf shows an example of early Venetian printing by Wendelin da Spira. The characters are old style roman in the classification of serif typefaces. The leaf also includes hand-written paragraph marks in red and blue ink. Notes by Stephen O. Saxe: "Johann of Speier was one of the many Germans who established presses in Italy in the earliest days of printing. He started in Venice in 1469 and was granted a 5-year monopoly on printing in the city. He died the next year, however, his brother Wendelin printed Latin classics and the first books in the Italian vernacualr. The brothers' roman type still shows traces of manuscript models in the indecisiveness of certain letters, but it is an important step in the direction of type designed for printing alone."
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