Typeface entry

BaTyR n°29277

Palestine hébreux de Jean Arnoul (1541)

Author : Rémi Jimenes

Source : Gallica

Description

Style

Carré (Meruba) (Hebrew)

Description

Caractère hébraïque gravé  par Jean Arnoul, dit Picard, pour Robert Estienne en 1541 (selon le témoigne de G. Le Bé). Première occurrence répertoriée en 1543.

Body-size

Traditionnal body-size name

Palestine

20-lines measurement

177

Capital height

4.0

x-height

4.0

Key letters

"The characteristics of Hb28 are similar to the other three Picards, with minor differences. In this typeface, for example, the ascender of the lamed is straighter and not ‘kinked’ as is the lamed of Hb27. There are also sorts for the extended aleph, heh, lamed, final Mem and Tav." (Lubell-2015)

Archives and documents

People

  • Owner / User of equipment

  • Type engraver
    Caractère gravé par Jean Arnoul, auquel Guillaume Le Bé, alors apprenti, aurait collaboré. Selon S. Lubell (2015) : "The most plausible explanation.. is that Guillaume I Le Bé worked on these types as an apprentice under Arnoul’s supervision on the finishing of these types, but that the major engraving work was done by Arnoul himself. This would explain the clear stylistic differences between this typeface and those which Le Bé identifies as his own in the two BnF documents."
    Printer

References

  • H.D.L. Vervliet, French Renaissance Typography : a Conspectus, London, 2010, n° 396

  • Lubell (S.), Sixteenth-century Hebrew typography: a Typographical and historical analysis based on the Guillaume I Le Bé documents in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, thèse révisée, 2015, Hb 28

  • Omont (H.), "Spécimens de caractères hébreux gravés à Venise et à Paris par Guillaume Le Bé (1546-1574)", extrait des Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France (t. XIV), Paris, 1887.

To cite this notice

Base de Typographie de la Renaissance, notice n°29277, http://batyr.univ-tours.fr/en/caractere/29277/. Consulté le 26 February 2026

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