Figure 53
First Gothic Type used in Spain: Palmart, Valencia
From Haebler’s Typographie Ibérique due Quinzième Siècle (facsimile), Cosmographia (scan)
1482
The gothic types used by Palmart were a somewhat round yet slightly condensed black-letter—but by no means as round as some other Spanish gothic fonts. A page from the Cosmographia of Pomponius Mela, printed by Palmart in 1482, is composed in two sizes of this type.