JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Blackletter, Movable Type, Typography
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Quiz 3 is still in the process of being marked. Office hours times next tuesday - go pick up quizzes; but first make an appointment for the doodle. Assignment - circled numbers are to be added up for the final mark - if there is an adding error, please see professor harvey. Blackletter - type that looks like the title not trying to mimic carolingian or roman styles. Blackletter differs from scripts before it - carolingian miniscule is called minuscule because wrote in lower case. Carolingian - charlesmagne - scriptorium with many latin documents - difference between capital and lower case letters. Type-setting by hand - one case/trunk for upper-case letters; another case for lower- case letters. Gutenberg"s printing was unborken tradition, but korean moveable type was discontinued. Mass production of books - moveable type allows you to set one page and press pages all day, industrializing production of books. Bastarda - know the two kinds of bastarda.
