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Duret, Claude, m. 1611 · 1613 · Cologny : M. Berjon · 33 pictures

Claude Duret's 1613 treatise on the languages of the world, published at Cologny by M. Berjon, is a scholarly study of writing systems and alphabets for a learned readership. Its pictures are printed charts of letterforms in rigid grids, with hand-drawn alphabets of Hebrew, Syriac, and invented or hieroglyphic-style characters, showing how a designer might build a modular grid of unfamiliar glyphs with strong, ink-heavy shapes.

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