texturan.
/tɛkˈstjʊərə/ Typography.
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 attributive.
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lettre de forme1849
textura1929
1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types II. Index 323/1 Textur type.]
1929 A. F. Johnson in Library 9 359 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.
1955 Archit. Rev. 118 399/3 It [sc. the Gothic letter] is a magnificent letter, both formal textura and Gothic cursive.
1962 N. E. Binns Introd. Hist. Bibliogr. (ed. 2) xiv. 182 The rigid and formal types of this group are known as Textura types, or..Lettre de Forme.
1969 M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xvii In the fourteenth century Textura became increasingly more artificial and more difficult to write.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 884/5 The textura types survived in England into the eighteenth century.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 1328/3 Caxton's mainstay bâtardes 2, 4, and 6 are surely best understood as belonging to the great calligraphic types of the earliest period, in fourth place after the Gutenbergian or Mainz texturas and rotundas and the Venetian romans.
1977 Studies 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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