Modeled after Gutenberg’s types. Issued by Theinhardt as
Altdeutsch or Alt-Deutsch in c. 1887
[Reichardt] or even 1851 [Helzel]. Not to be confused with Bauer &
Co’s (and later Berthold’s) Altdeutsch, which is a
version of Caxton
Black. Cast by Berthold as Mainzer Gotisch.
Genzsch & Heyse acquired matrices, cut larger sizes and sold their
version as Psalterium (1896) [Seemann, Bauer 1928,
Reichardt] Helzel mentions Psalterion as another
alias. Psalterium is shown in Horodisch (1931) with
descending ‘f' and ‘ſ’ and round-bottom ‘C’ and ‘T’ (the latter as
alternate). These details are different in the unidentified showing
in Biedermann
(1903, used for sample).
Digitizations by Gerhard Helzel as Psalter-Gotisch
(2005, not to be confused with Krebs’ version of Tudor More…
Modeled after Gutenberg’s types. Issued by Theinhardt as Altdeutsch or Alt-Deutsch in c. 1887 [Reichardt] or even 1851 [Helzel]. Not to be confused with Bauer & Co’s (and later Berthold’s) Altdeutsch, which is a version of Caxton Black. Cast by Berthold as Mainzer Gotisch. Genzsch & Heyse acquired matrices, cut larger sizes and sold their version as Psalterium (1896) [Seemann, Bauer 1928, Reichardt] Helzel mentions Psalterion as another alias. Psalterium is shown in Horodisch (1931) with descending ‘f' and ‘ſ’ and round-bottom ‘C’ and ‘T’ (the latter as alternate). These details are different in the unidentified showing in Biedermann (1903, used for sample).
Digitizations by Gerhard Helzel as Psalter-Gotisch (2005, not to be confused with Krebs’ version of Tudor Black) and by Iza W as AltDeutsch (2007, poorly drawn and spaced, with Outline and Shadow variants). See also José A. Mauricio’s Psalterium (Alter Littera, 2012) which is based on the same 15th century sources.
