Figure 79
Roman Type used by Schoeffer, Mainz
From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), De Unitate Ecclesiae Conservanda (scan)
1520
As to the sixteenth century roman types used in Germany, Johann Schoeffer of Mainz printed in 1520 Ulrich Hutten’s De Unitate Ecclesiæ Conservanda in a heavy roman type of a kind very common at that period, a page of which is reproduced.