Figure 111

Ascendonica: Stamperia Vaticana Specimen, Rome

From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Wellcome Collection (scan)

1628

For late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century types we have a valuable source-book in the 1628 specimen of the Stamperia Vaticana… The serious part of the work begins on leaf 27…followed by descending sizes of old style fonts—such as the ascendonica.

See chapter 13