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which faded at the end of the 12th C. White vine scroll letters
were revived in the 15th C by humanistic illuminators who
believed that many of the manuscripts in which this form appeared
were ancient Roman works.
[?(bia chi gineni)?]
White vine - stems and leaves of the vine plant [insert] (uncolored) [end insert] painted white
on a colored background. In the 14th C white vines
were used to embellish capitals in manuscripts especially
in Italy. Their popularity endured longer than the Romanesque style in [illegible]
- price 5 ducats (1 papal ducat of a metal was equivalent to
9/56/d in gold)
cost of paper was heavy at this time - nearly 1/2 the
[illegible] price of a book.
Sweynheym and Pannartz (2 of Fust's pupils) in 1467 transferred
their press from Subiaco in the Benedictine Convent of St.
Scholastica to Rome at Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne,
This 2nd ed of the great apologia for Christianity is printed
in roman Type, S and P having abandoned their roman/gothic
font when they moved from Subiaco in 1467. Though not
quite the equal aesthetically of the Subiaco Type, in
which the 1st ed (1467) was printed, it is still a
splendid design, a little more solid, bolder and nearer
to its calligraphic origins than the more modern roman
faces.
Second (first Roman) edition, preceded by the Subiaco
ed. of the previous year from the same press. The
first 3 printing of [?fices?] in Rome were all established
by Germans around the same date (1467) : Sweynheym
and Pannartz, Sixtus Riessinger, and Ulrich Han.
Copies 1 - 275, 550 (their Bible), 825 and 1100 (only 2 books)
produced