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The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 587

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Fig. 407.—Mark of Temporal, Printer at Lyons, 1550—1559, with two devices ; one in Latin, Andin the meanwhile time flieth, flieth irreparablythe other in Greek, Mark, or know, Time.(Observe the play upon the words tempiis, Kaipâçand Temporal.) … somme of France (Gothic characters). Aldo Manuzio, with the sole object ofinsuring that Venice should not owe its national type to a Frenchman,adopted the Italic character, renewed from the writing called cursive or dechancellerie (of the chancellors office), which was never generally used…

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