Figure 48
Fifteenth Century Roman Type attributed to Schoeffer (as reconstituted by Enschedé)
From Enschedé’s Fonderies de Caractères et leur Matériel dans les Pays-Bas du XVe au XIXe Siècle (facsimile), Princeton University Library (scan, image 9)
1488
…Enschedé completed the defective font, some missing letters being obtained by adding to or subtracting from existing characters, and when this was not feasible, a few letters being cut in the style of the old ones. Our plate shows this reconstitution of the font.