It is superior to the later antique type, which deteriorated through desire to save space, and it is almost equal to the beautiful type of Jenson.
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The Speyer brothers are sometimes credited as the originators of the Roman type of character of movable type, other contenders being Pannartz and Sweynheim and Nicholas Jenson.
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