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2 unusual facts about Aldine


Aldine

Aldine Independent School District, a school district in Houston, Texas, United States

The Aldine, a monthly American art journal published in New York from 1868 to 1879


Aldine Press

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Chancery hand

It was adapted as the model for the italic typeface developed by Aldus Manutius in Venice, from punches cut by Francesco Griffo and first used in 1500 for the small portable series of inexpensive classics that issued from the Aldine press.


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