Figure 17
Round Gothic Type of Catholicon: Gutenberg
From a copy in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island (facsimile), Catholicon (scan, p. 583)
1460
Besides the pointed gothic type, or lettre de forme, used in Germany, there was a rounder gothic type known as lettre de somme. Examples are to be seen in the Mainz Catholicon, printed probably by Gutenberg, in 1460.