File:EB1911 Typography - Durandus, c. 1464.jpg

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English: An excerpt from an early printed page. Roman type, the Caroline minuscule of palaeography. Specimen from the British Museum copy of Durandus, Rationale, of which the Basel library possesses a copy which was bought in 1464. Printed in Strassburg, by the printer whose fount of type is known by a peculiarly shaped R, and R an who on that account is usually called “the R printer.”
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Source Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 27, 1911, p. 539, No. 9.
Author “The R printer,” Strassburg
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Public domain This image comes from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1929. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.

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