"AJN (boston)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dear Dana, > > It's nice to see you back on line.
thanks, happy to be back, if only thru the library as I am now. > Oak Knoll Press is well known to me, I have been to their store, it is another place to visit if you are passing thru that area. > I don't know if this is the same type museum you were mentioning. The > famous one is thge Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. There is also > a type > museum at Oxford University Press. And one at the vatican I beleive. > The museum in Antwerp also has some specimens of music type, > and perhaps > this new book will show more. I wonder how it departs from Vervliet's > book, which you mentioned. I know Vervliet has writen about the Plantin museum. From the anouncement this will be much more comprehensive. Another entry on the 'wants' list, thanks for the heads up. For good or ill, the original Plantin made a point of collecting all the early type he could find. This did preserve it for some time; but... One of his decendants decided to 'reduce' the collection, discarding the 'damaged', 'incomplete', and 'deformed' type. I strongly suspect the culled type included faces we are highly familiar with from the tablature editions of Le Roy and Ballard cut by Granjon who 'compressed' it vertically; however, it would have been an incomplete alphabet). Thankfully todays curators have a litttle more sense. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
