Chapter 7 – Answer Key
Multiple Choice
1. D – Venice
2. A – Johannes de Spira
3. B – Nicolas Jenson
4. B – Calendarium
5. B – asymmetrical
6. C – Aldus Manutius
7. C – pocket
8. D – Francesco Griffo (Francesco da Bologna)
9. D – writing
10. B – France
11. C – Issuing the first printer’s type specimen sheet
12. D – Claude Garamond
13. B – Oronce Finé
14. B – copperplate engravings
15. D – trademark
16. A – Stephen and Matthew Daye
True/False
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
Matching
I.
1. bracketing: C
2. fleurons: B
3. headpiece: D
4. tailpiece: E
5. trademarks: A
6. type specimen sheet: F
II.
1. Francesco da Bologna, surnamed Griffo: C
2. Claude Garamond: E
3. Robert Granjon: F
4. Nicolas Jenson: A
5. Aldus Manutius: B
6. Geoffroy Tory: D
Image Identification
I.
1. Figs. 7-9 and 7-10: Erhard Ratdolt, Peter Loeslein, and Bernhard Maier, pages from Calendarium, 1476
2. Fig. 7-12: Erhard Ratdolt, Peter Loeslein, and Bernhard Maier, pages from Euclid’s Geometriae elementa, 1482
3. Figs. 7-19 and 7-20: Aldus Manutius, pages from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499
4. Fig. 7-33: Geoffroy Tory, capital G from a series of criblé initials, c. 1526
5. Fig. 7-35: Geoffroy Tory, pages from Champ Fleury, 1529
6. Fig. 7-36: Geoffroy Tory, construction of the letters Q, V, and R from Champ Fleury, 1529
7. Fig. 7-44: Joannes Frellonius and Hans Holbein the Younger, pages from Imagines Mortis, 1547
8. Fig. 7-45: Johann Oporinus, page from De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Construction of the Human Body), 1543
II.
1. Fig. 7-12: B – Erhard Ratdolt
2. Fig. 7-39: A – Simon de Colines
3. Fig. 7-51: C – Stephen and Matthew Daye
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