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Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker

Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker FERNAND BAUDIN Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker* Whoever cut the punches for the so-called Gutenberg Bible, in 1456, was sure to have an excellent model of the textura. Models for that formal bookhand were there all over the place. The unsigned copy he made was so close to his handwritten model, whatever it was, that he is to this day suspected of forgery. Since we may never really know who printed the first Bible, let us move to safer ground. The following year, in Mainz, on 14 August 1457, Fust and Schoeffer completed a Latin Psalter. At the end of one copy appears the first colophon in a printed book. Colophon is a Greek word which means 'finishing stroke'. It refers to a tradition the early printers took over from the medieval manuscript books, where it was customary for the rubricator to sign his name and sometimes to give details of the place, the date, etc. in a separate paragraph at the end of the text. This is what it says in Latin at the end of the Mainz Psalter (as translated by Alfred Pollard and cited by W. Turner Berry and H. Edmund http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker

Quaerendo , Volume 15 (2): 103 – Jan 1, 1985

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Brill
Copyright
© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0014-9527
eISSN
1570-0690
DOI
10.1163/157006985X00090
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Abstract

FERNAND BAUDIN Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker* Whoever cut the punches for the so-called Gutenberg Bible, in 1456, was sure to have an excellent model of the textura. Models for that formal bookhand were there all over the place. The unsigned copy he made was so close to his handwritten model, whatever it was, that he is to this day suspected of forgery. Since we may never really know who printed the first Bible, let us move to safer ground. The following year, in Mainz, on 14 August 1457, Fust and Schoeffer completed a Latin Psalter. At the end of one copy appears the first colophon in a printed book. Colophon is a Greek word which means 'finishing stroke'. It refers to a tradition the early printers took over from the medieval manuscript books, where it was customary for the rubricator to sign his name and sometimes to give details of the place, the date, etc. in a separate paragraph at the end of the text. This is what it says in Latin at the end of the Mainz Psalter (as translated by Alfred Pollard and cited by W. Turner Berry and H. Edmund

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Published: Jan 1, 1985

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