Figure 75
Title-page of Fundamentbuch: Jobin, Strassburg
From Druckschriften des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts (facsimile), Fundament Buch inhatende mancherleÿ wolgeformte Teutsche vnd Lateinische schrifften (scan)
1579
An idea of sixteenth century fraktur can be had from…the title-page from the Strassburg Fundamentbuch of 1579, printed by Bernhard Jobin. On this page the third to sixth and eighth to tenth lines are printed from type, the form of which is nearer to the German types used three hundred years later, than to those of a hundred years before. It is a distinct decline from the purer gothic letter. In this title-page the decorated letters are cut on wood, but their tormented forms are really what the typographer would have been glad to find in type.