Notice Typefaces

BaTyR n°37065

Rotunda de trismegiste d'Erhard Ratdolt

Author : Rémi Jimenes

Source : Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)

Description

Style

Rotunda (Gothic)

Description

Caractère de rotunda, employé pour des ouvrages liturgiques et sur certains pages de titre d'Erhard Ratdolt.

Body-size

Traditionnal body-size name

Trismegiste

20-lines measurement

230

x-height

7.5

ph-height

10.5

Key letters

"The type design is highly refined, it displays a strong angularity with airline thin strokes which tend to disappear when the impression is not particularly sharp. Peculiar letters are the wide round s and letter e where the oblique bar extends to the right of the bowl with a smooth connection and sharp terminal" (R. Olocco)

People

References

  • Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke (TW), ma00405

  • Olocco (Riccardo), Ratdolt's Index Characterum. The Earliest known type specimen, Francfurt-am-main, Poem, 2020, n° 1

Occurence

1 occurrence

To cite this notice

Base de Typographie de la Renaissance, notice n°37065, http://batyr.univ-tours.fr/en/caractere/37065/. Consulté le 24 April 2025

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