Figure 50

Spindeler’s Roman Type, Valencia

From Haebler’s Typographie Ibérique due Quinzième Siècle (facsimile), Rudimenta grammatices (scan)

1500

In Villanova’s Rudimenta Grammaticæ, printed by Spindeler at Valencia in 1500, we have a more regular type, better fitted, but of a heavy cut—this heaviness being a mark of many Spanish roman fonts.

See chapter 8