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textura Typogr.|tɛkˈstjʊərə| [a. G. textura (also textur), f. L. textūra: see texture n.] One of a group of typefaces first used in the earliest printed books, distinguished by narrow, angular letters and a strong vertical emphasis; also, the manuscript hand on which these typefaces were based. Also attrib.
[1922D. B. Updike Printing Types II. 323/1 (Index), Textur type.] 1929A. F. Johnson in Library IX. 359 The term which the Germans usually employ is Textur, or Textura, meaning ‘woven’, from the resemblance of a page in this letter to a woven pattern. 1955Archit. Rev. CXVIII. 399/3 It [sc. the Gothic letter] is a magnificent letter, both formal textura and Gothic cursive. 1962[see lettre b]. 1969M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Book Hands 1250–1500 p. xvii, In the fourteenth century Textura became increasingly more artificial and more difficult to write. 1970Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 884/5 The textura types survived in England into the eighteenth century. 1976[see rotunda 3]. 1977Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Toyko) 7 Ad is written in a very neat textura hand, which differs from that which copied the rest of the MS. |