Figure 64
Caxton’s Types 6 and 8 from Tretyse of Love, Westminster
From a copy in the Library of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York (facsimile), Internet Archive (scan)
1493
Type 6, a variant of Type 2, first used in the Ars Moriendi of 1490, calls for no remark, for it is another of Caxton’s series of gros batarde letters.
Type 8, of French origin, is a lettre de forme of the conventional type. It appears in the first four lines of the opening page of the Ars Moriendi mentioned above, and in the fourth, fifth, sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth lines of the left-hand column in our illustration.