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Type and type-founding -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Kay Amert research papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6804
Scope and Contents Contains the papers, research notes, article drafts, and professional correspondence of Kay Amert. The bulk of Amert's research papers focus on the work of Simon de Colines (died 1576), a sixteenth-century Renaissance printer based in Paris, France. The collection includes detailed notes on individual books from the Estienne and Colines presses, especially the types used. The books she studied are housed in various library collections worldwide. This collection also contains the draft of...
Dates: 1986-2007

Kay Amert papers and publications, 1989-2007

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6804 Series 7
Scope and Contents Contains Kay Amert's files on her publications and other academic papers or presentations. These files consist of research notes, drafts, correspondence, printing proofs, and illustrations organized by publication or presentation. These publications include: "Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne," "The Phenomenon of the Gros Canon," "Formation of an Apparatus of Literacy," "Origins of the French Old Style: The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines," "Origins of...
Dates: 1989-2007

Kay Amert research notes on Simon de Colines and his typography, circa 1995-2006

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6804 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains Kay Amert's research notes on Simon de Colines. These notes include chronological lists of publications by Colines, lists of repositories where copies of these publications reside, summaries of pertinent details regarding these publications (such as date, size, illustrations, fonts), diagrams of the layout of some of these publications, and analyses of the type fonts used by Colines. Materials date from between 1995 and 2006.

Dates: circa 1995-2006