Jenson's Greek

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"This work has its origins in an abandoned printing of Nicolas Jenson's last will and testament, illustrated with Jenson's Greek letters... The quotation used in Jenson's Greek is from Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius, printed by Jenson in Venice in 1472. The 'poems' on pages 19, 29 and 39 are made from words & phrases of Jenson's will translated by Pierce Butler for the Ludlow Typograph Company 1928. The quotation from Jenson's Greek is from Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius, Venice 1472.... The enlarged letters, in their sequence here, are gamma, phi, delta, sigma-theta (double letter), psi, & pi"--Foreword.