Figure 74
Type used in Teuerdanck: Schönsperger, Nuremberg
From a copy in the Library of Congress, Washington
1517
The classical example…is that shown in the same printer’s Story of the Knight of Teuerdanck (a poem of chivalry of very indifferent merit), composed in honour of the marriage of Maximilian and printed at the Emperor’s expense at Nuremberg in 1517.