Figure 23

Transitional Roman-Gothic: Holle, Ulm

From a copy in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence (facsimile), Cosmographia (scan)

1482

There were also semi-gothic types like that used by Mentelin, and puzzling transitional roman-gothic fonts, of which an interesting example is that used by Holle at Ulm in 1482 in his first dated book—the Comographia of Ptolemy.

See chapter 4