This ancient font as per its name was first used in 1509 in a Dutch town then known as Leyden for printing Francesco Filfelo’s “Breviores elegantioresque epistolae” by Jan Seversz. 1509 Leyden had covered almost one complete set of small lombardic initials, the complete set of lower case characters except w, Eth , etc. , … Read more
Nancy was inspired from the printing of Symphorien Champion’s book named “Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d’Austrasie ou France orientale[…]” in around 1510 at Nancy town of France. Basically focused on initials letters, it has 3 set of families with only 1 complete and clear. Reconstruction by GLC was bit difficult as some … Read more
We represented this font by a rick bibliophile and an acknowledged scribe of Italy. This Italian calligrapher was in a mission of reconciling Roman Script, during this he was inspired by Italian humanistic Minuscule script. For modern day purpose long “S” is substituted with small “s” and other non-existing characters (U/V etc.) were also introduced. … Read more