Tiskové písmo Čech a Moravy první poloviny 16. století

The present treatise deals with the history of the 1st half of 16th Century typeface in Bohemia and Moravia. It contains quantitative data arranged into tables accompanied with relevant photographic reproduction in 1 : 1 ratio. The analysis convincingly shows that the difference of typeface stores was much smaller than abroad. The bastard type kept up till 1522, that is obviously at longest from all european countries. On the contrary, the black letter entered into our country very late, after Germany, Austria and Poland in the course of forties of 16th Century. The most slowly got in the Roman type, slowed down by Utraquist traditionalism, which this facetype perceived as a reminder of Rome papacy. The majority of typefaces in our country has been expanded in the form of matrices from Nuremberg