Figure 21
Semi-Gothic Type: Mentelin, Strassburg
From Burger’s Monumenta Germaniæ et Italiæ Typograhica (facsimile), Biblia Latina (scan)
1460
…all the type used in Germany was not of Gothic form. Fonts of roman character were employed there by a few printers. Mentelin, the first Strassburg printer, used a gothic type which pointed towards roman in his Biblia Latina, finished in 1460.