Figure 117
Type used for Missals: 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 book closes with two sizes of a large old style letter, used no doubt with music for the Canon of the Mass.