Note 112 — Chapter II · TYPE FACES (CONTINUED). THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS.

Lascaris caused to be printed at Florence, in 1494, an Anthologia Græca, and several other works wholly in Greek capitals, “litteris majusculis.” In the preface to the Anthologia he vindicates his use of these characters, which he says he has designed after the genuine models of antiquity to be found in the inscriptions on medals, marbles, etc.