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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 9536564, member: 14916&quot;]My booknerd self is completely happy this evening <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I showed before, part of the paper was made by a French papermaker called Nicolas le Bé. He lived in Troyes and was part of a large paper making family.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later when I read something about the fonts used in the book, I saw another person with the same name: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_B%C3%A9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_B%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">Guillaume le Bé</a>. He&nbsp; made the Hebrew type fonts for the Biblia Regia! He was born in Troyes. </p><p>Guillaume was the student of the famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Garamond" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Garamond" rel="nofollow">Claude Garamond</a> (see the font list on your computer <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />). Some fonts in the Bible are made by Claude Garamond, Plantin bought some material from Garamond after he died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two le Bé&#039;s from Troyes can&#039;t be a coincidence and that is correct: Guillaume was Nicolas&#039; son!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]452956[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]452957[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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