TUGboat 45:1 (2024)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: Basic Latin brevigraphs listed in Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi—Progress report

Summary: variations of printed glyphs in some early Polish printing.

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Author: Janusz Bień

Publication: TUGboat volume 45, number 1 (2024), pages 32-44

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/45-1/tb139bien-brevigraphspt
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Category: Humanities

Difficulty: Advanced

Abstract: The fonts of several 16th century printers active in Poland, namely Aleksander Augezdecki, Jan Haller, Kasper Hochfeder, Florian Ungler (the first and second printing house) and Maciej Wirzbięta, have been described in the series of 12 fascicules entitled Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi published in years 1959–1981. We examine variations of the glyphs in the printed output.

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