Figure 24
First Type used in Italy: Sweynheym and Pannartz, Subiaco
From a copy of Lactantius of 1465 in the Annmary Brown Memorial Library, Providence (facsimile), Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus: Divinae institutiones (scan)
1465
While not a roman type as we should now understand the term, it is, in spite of its general effect, a font on the way thereto. Three books were printed at Subiaco—… the Opera of Lactanius, printed in 1465…