[DCRM-L] [External] Interesting letterforms

[Nicholas Yeager]

The terminals are uniformly 2 characters long, which may suggest that they
were cut as individual sorts on a 3 character-wide body. But it's confused
by the fact that there are variant terminals; some have a clear ball end,
others, more like a cresting wave. If the punchcutter cut 2 or more
variations of both letters, that suggests an attention to detail that isn't
borne out by the rest of the punchcutting.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 1:47 PM Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
wrote:

> I wonder if the individual sorts were filed down with the swash extension
> soldered to it (don’t know what metallurgy was available at the time), as
> were filed V’s, in which the right serif of the left sort was filed off so
> that the two ‘v’ sorts sat very closely together. Even then, there are
> hairline spaces in the inking. I don’t know that two separate type pieces,
> regardless of how closely they were placed, could create an unbroken inked
> surface.
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Ryan Hildebrand
> *Sent:* Monday, 25 October, 2021 16:05
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] [External] Interesting letterforms
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> These are swash characters, which I am not accustomed to seeing in the
> body of a text. Whether they were cast as such, or formed from separate
> pieces of type (the terminal of both “a” and “e” would have needed
> modifications) I do not know, but here each instance looks vastly different
> from another, which I would think argues against having been cast.
> Interested to hear what others think about this.
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> Ryan Hildebrand
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> Authorities & Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Shoemaker,
> Elizabeth Anne
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 12:07 PM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] [External] Interesting letterforms
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> I’ve never come across them, but I feel pretty certain that the additional
> tail is a separate piece of type from the letter itself. I am curious to
> see the responses about this!
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> Beth
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> Beth Shoemaker
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> Rare Book Librarian
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> Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library
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> Emory University
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Brian Bethel
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 1:40 PM
> *To:* dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> *Subject:* [External] [DCRM-L] Interesting letterforms
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> Hello all --
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> I'm curious if anyone has come across the 'a' and 'e' letterforms shared
> in the images above. They are almost exclusively used at the right-most
> position of each line, the exception being the image shared above where the
> 'e' is at the end of the sentence but not the right-most position of the
> line. My initial assumption was that the letterforms were for spacing
> purposes, but with the inconsistent usage, I'm not totally sure.
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> The item in question is a papal bull printed in Bologna in 1718 by the
> heirs of Vittorio Benacci at the Stamparia Camerale. Any insights would be
> most welcome!
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> Thanks,
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> Brian Bethel
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> Rare Books Cataloger, Stanford University Special Collections
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