Italian Upper Case

V-

R-

( )

ffi

ffl

This Italian lay is that in Lockwood: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894). The box with # represents a cross, and the a e etc are superiors. V- and R- are Versicle and Response. Note the position of w and k and W, unlike in US/UK cases, and that J and U are in alphabetic order.

The companion Lower Case is Italian Lower. Lockwood notes that these two are separate cases, the Upper being some 5/8 as high as the Lower. A later version shown in Enciclopedia Italiana in 1937 may have become combined with the Lower, and certainly by 1963, Hostettler shows a single combined case.

The empty case configuration is Italian Upper.

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This page was written in 1999 by David Bolton and last updated 24 November 2008.