Venice · 1470 · Nicolaus Jenson

De evangelica praeparatione

Eusebius Caesariensis

De evangelica praeparatione
Rubricated incipit on the verso of the first leaf
Leaf 1v (leaf 00006): a new section opens in Jenson's roman with hand-supplied red rubrication and paragraph marks, showing the planned two-colour layout.
Rubricated text page from the body of the work
Leaf 39r (leaf 00081): a dense mid-volume page of Jenson roman with red rubricated subheadings worked into the running text.
Final page with Antonio Cornazzano's epigram
Leaf 142r (leaf 00287): the closing page, ending with "Antonii Cornazani in laudem Artificis Epigramma" — the laudatory epigram by Antonio Cornazzano.
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The debut of Nicolas Jenson's roman typeface, the most influential type design of the incunabula period. Jenson's letterforms set the proportions and optical logic that virtually all subsequent roman types descend from, including Centaur and Adobe Jenson. No other 15th-century typecutter matched the coherence of his roman.

Details

Title
De evangelica praeparatione
Author
Eusebius Caesariensis
Printer
Nicolaus Jenson
Place
Venice
Year
1470
Format
Language
Latin
Theme
typography

Facsimiles

BSB PUL

Images

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, 2 Inc.c.a. 27 m — Public Domain Mark 1.0

References

ISTC ie00118000