Medieval letter tile
Medieval letter tiles are one-
Background
The decoration technique is notable for being an early form of movable type printing which essentially is nothing but the stringing together of identically created individual letters for the purpose of producing an image.[2][3] Compared to the conventional printing technique later established by Johannes Gutenberg, though, medieval tile alphabets were created in an inverse order: In a first step, the (im)printing was done, and only then the process of typesetting occurred, by spreading out the individual letter tiles onto the floor and composing them into words and lines of text.[4]
The use of such movable letter tiles is documented for the English
The Prüfening dedicatory inscription is a Latin church inscription on a single clay tablet using a different principle, apparently made by stamping out the words with individual letter stamps or types.
References
- ^ Brekle 1997, pp. 61f. likens the medieval technique to that used in the modern game of Scrabble.
- ^ "Terracotta / Klinker Tiles – Lian Seng Hin". Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Brekle 1997, pp. 61f.; Lehmann-Haupt 1940, p. 97
- ^ Brekle 1997, pp. 61f.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt 1940, pp. 96f.
- ^ Meijer 2004
- ^ Klamt 2004, pp. 195–210
Sources
- Brekle, Herbert E. (1997), "Das typographische Prinzip. Versuch einer Begriffsklärung", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 72: 58–63 (61f.)
- Klamt, Christian (2004), "Letters van baksteen in een cistercienzerklooster: het Ave Maria te Zinna", in Stuip, R. E. V. (ed.), Meer dan muziek alleen: in memoriam Kees Vellekoop, Utrechtse bijdragen tot de mediëvistiek, vol. 20, Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, pp. 195–210, ISBN 90-6550-776-0
- Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut (1940), "Englische Holzstempelalphabete des XIII. Jahrhunderts", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch: 93–97
- Meijer, Frank (2004), De stenen letters van Aduard (2nd ed.), Groningen: Omnia Uitgevers, ISBN 978-90-75354-08-9
- Haberley, Loyd (1937): "Medieval English Paving Tiles", Blackwel