Figure 33
First Gothic Type used in France: Frieburger, Gering, and Kranz, Paris
From a copy of Manipulus Curatorum in the Annmary Brown Memorial Library, Providence
1473
The printers then installed themselves at the Sign of the Golden Sun in the Rue St. Jacques, a street consecrated for centuries to the commerce of the book—as indeed it still is. Their next type (employed for a manual for the clergy, called Manipulus Curatorum, issued in 1473) was a gothic font of transitional character, more roman, however, than the like types of Schoeffer. This was the first gothic type used in France. In this book it was set in double-column, with the initial letters and paragraph marks put in by hand.