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GERMAN BLACK LETTER. 17 of 1460, which is attributed to Gutenberg. The same form may be seen in the Letter of Indulgence of 1454, in the edi- tion of Cicero of 1465, printed by Schoeffer, and in many of the popular books of the early German printers. This form of letter has no simple distinctive name: French bibli- ographers call it Lettre de somme; English bibliographers, Round Gothic Semi-gothic. I have called it Round Gothic, to distinguish the laity, it from the Pointed Gothic. TrTcuuo.fl.um.ni ICUA Jj^Jjcx leqpe.o"* < Icgo.gia.lcst qi Tcxjlts fcripril afcifcensj bonelKu^pbibcns contT riu.ut lox c fcnptu po n* quortK ct populo rcrpotioJntc.OolebAt ima^iftcr eiwitatfe ntm Aliqua Icg^m wcllct i en? a(ccna?n? pulpjtu m mooia conoone ct A populo fi ucllct illuo Wht cfTc.ct Acrcpw nc < populo ZxHnccpcr <p logc tobcb<f .rni (JT Gr fciAS q' Icgo.^s.cof Tc in/pvin fi imptcrim prt>Z>VnO? lex Ic^io tenet flAturiiin butuo pteri ti Icqi.atm ptimAni pmo'.X^.Tlon Cecct H(A Icapi oontranA Ic^'.Dc Icgt? nali uiDt? in confcfd c J5r4ttt2 paufKco ucl (cmio.ct in ba? bucj.p t p wcm oior. Lexis ijrerc l<ti nc loaico.t.qudtbct nil^iiifuox quo fcribi Dcb| Types of the Catholicon of 1460, attributed to Gutenberg. Neither the Pointed nor the Bound form of Gothic was German print- entirely acceptable to German printers and readers of the ornate typef xvth century. Apparently there was a craving for more of elaboration and complexity. The type of Erhard Rewich, 3