Creator
Aldus Manutius & Francesco Griffo
Title
Aristophanes / opera omnia.
Coverage
Venice
Publisher
Aldus
Date
1498
Description
Aldus’ Greek types were based on the cursive, sloped, highly ligatured writing of the scholars active in Venice in the late fifteenth century.
The Aldine Greek types have not been universally admired; the great scholar of Greek printing types Victor Scholderer famously wrote that Aldus‘ Greek types were “a disaster from which Greek printing did not recover for generations.” While not necessarily benign, their influence remained essentially intact for centuries.
The Aldine Greek types have not been universally admired; the great scholar of Greek printing types Victor Scholderer famously wrote that Aldus‘ Greek types were “a disaster from which Greek printing did not recover for generations.” While not necessarily benign, their influence remained essentially intact for centuries.
Relation
LENDER: From the library of T. Kimball Brooker, author and collector of the Aldine Press