Designed by E.P. Prince and F. Tarrant for Miller & Richard in 1878. [Updike, Reichardt] First known advertisement was from that year. [THP] Also cast as Tudor Black by Blackfriar, Hadden, Hansen, ITF, KTF, P&B. Known under many names, incl. Gothique Archaique (Vanderborght and also Van Loey-Noury [c.1914 specimen]), Germania (Brendler), Goethe/Tudor (BB&S), Gotico neretta (FTC), Mediaeval-Gotisch (Flinsch/Bauer), Old Black (Farmer, P&R), Psalter-Gotisch (Krebs), and Urbino (Fondografica). [Reichardt] Augusta had a wood type adaptation as Serie 1032.

Arrived in the U.S. around 1889 with no distinction between the caps ‘I’ and ‘J’ until about 1900. Modernized caps ‘HIMN’ were first shown in 1906. [McGrew] An “open” derivative was patented in 1898 by Rudolph Gnichwitz of Keystone. [THP]

Italian manufacturer Reber R41 had a dry-transfer version named Gotico (also carried by Edding in Germany as Gotik). Phototype versions include Psalter Text and Tudor Italic, shown in Dan X. Solo’s Gothic and Old English Alphabets (1984). A Typeshop catalog (late 1970s?) shows a version named Osterdal, in two roman weights and one italic.

Digitized by Gerhard Helzel as Mediaeval-Gotisch (2003), by Paolo W. as Psalter Gotisch (Intellecta, 2009), and by Robert Donona (2014, not yet released).