Figure 51
Fadrique de Basilea’s Roman Type, Burgos
From Haebler’s Typographie Ibérique due Quinzième Siècle
1499
The very virile roman font employed at Burgos about 1497 by Fadrique de Basilea in the De Hispaniæ Laudibus of Marineus Siculus shows a distinct advance in its type-cutting and fitting; but in effect it is almost as heavy as black-letter. This is true of a font used in the same printer’s Latin edition of Brant’s Stultiferæ Naves, though the massive appearance of such close-set type certainly accords well with the woodcut above it.