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Ill Early Roman Types. Printed in partnership from 1465 to 1473. WEINHEYM and PANNAKTZ, the first printers in Italy, began their work in the monastery of Subiaco, near Rome, with new types of the Roman form. We do not know what model they had for the cutting of this letter. It may have been angular and faulty,' but it is more probable that Swein- heym and Pannartz could not entirely free themselves a HIM ADVERT! fepe Donate plurimos id exifHarc : quod mam nonulli pbilolbpbo y p uta u crime : non irafd deu* quom'am uel benefica fie cantumodo n atuna d (uma : tiec cuujnocere preftatiffime arcp oprie congruar potad. uel cerce nil curet oino.ut ne^ ex beneb'cencia cms qufcq Sweinheym and Pannartz, Subiaco, 1465. From their edition of Lactantius. from their prejudices in favor of pointed letters, and that they unwittingly made Roman types with many of the nartz died 1476. features of Black Letter. Their fashion of Roman is thick and compressed, almost as thick and black as the Black 90