Creator
[Vatican Printing Office]
Title
Indice de Caratteri...Nella Stampa Vaticana.
Coverage
Rome
Publisher
Stampa Vaticana
Date
1628
Subject
1628
Description
The Vatican established its printing office in 1587 by a decree of Pope Sixtus V, with the aim of printing works to spread the Gospel far and wide. Therefore, the shop amassed an impressive inventory of exotic fonts for typesetting in myriad languages. Many of these are shown in the Indice.
Updike called this early type specimen book “among the most interesting specimens in the history of printing, [it] shows the material of a seventeenth century Italian printing-office at its simplest and best.”
Updike called this early type specimen book “among the most interesting specimens in the history of printing, [it] shows the material of a seventeenth century Italian printing-office at its simplest and best.”
Relation
PROVENANCE: The American Type Founders (ATF) library; later Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library