[68] Ulric Hahn’s St. Augustini De Civitate Dei, Rome, 1474, is printed in a letter almost exactly this body. Others derive the name from the great edition of St. Augustine printed by Amerbach at Basle in 1506.
[69] “Liber presens, directorium sacerdotum, quem pica Sarum vulgo vocitat clerus,” etc., is the commencement of a work printed by Pynson in 1497.
[70] Both the Cicero of Fust and Schoeffer at Mentz, 1466, and of Hahn at Rome, 1469, were in type of about this size.
[71] This Prymer of Salysbury use, is set out a long, wout ony serchyng, etc. Paris, 1532. 16mo. Many editions were printed in England and abroad.
[72] Fournier (ii, 144) shows a specimen of the lettre de Somme with exactly a Bourgeois face.
[73] The first of the family of Paris printers of this name, mentioned by De la Caille, flourished in 1615.
[74] The German Brevier, corresponding to our Small Pica, is of more frequent occurrence in these works.
[75] De Germaniæ Miraculo. Lipsiæ, 1710, 4to, p. 37.
[76] The Lactantius, published the same year, and usually claimed as the first book printed in Italy, appears, according to a note of M. Madden’s (Lettres d’un Bibliographe, iv, 281), not to have been completed for a month after the Cicero de Oratore.
[77] “Il (Jenson) forma un caractère composé des capitales latines, qui servirent de majuscules; les minuscules furent prises d’autres lettres latines, ainsi que des espagnoles, lombardes, saxones, françoises ou carolines.” (Man. Typ., ii, 261.)