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Definition of Black letter
1. Noun. A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries.
Definition of Black letter
1. Noun. (typography) A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page. ¹
2. Noun. Text set in black-letter type. ¹
3. Noun. (legal) The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Letter
Literary usage of Black letter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"black letter. Contains 86 leaves. — The First two Partes of the Actes, ...
black letter. The first p:irt contains N 4, in eights, besides the dedication. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Tragical History of the Troubles and Civill Warres of the Low Countries, black-
letter, 1581. 4s. 1511. Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, ..."
3. Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 by William Carew Hazlitt (1876)
"8", black letter, A—D in eights, the last leaf containing a coat of arms with
... Folio, black letter, printed in two columns. Aa, 4 leaves : a—z in sixes ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"black letter. 9. ' The Articles wherefore John Frith he Dyed, which he wrote in
Newgate i the 23 day of June 1533/ London, 1548, ! 12mo, black letter. 10. ..."
5. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"The style of black-letter used in the first Bible and in the Psalter of 1457 was
the style preferred for sumptuous books by all ecclesiastics of the ..."
6. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"... X Black-letter ^LACK-LETTER is a degenerate form of the roman character.
Its mannerisms probably began with copyists not expert at curved lines, ..."
7. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"Imprinted at London in Flet-Stret, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S.
John Evangelist, by Thomas Colwell. nd 12°, black letter. ..."
8. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"black letter. Contains 86 leaves. — The First two Partes of the Actes, ...
black letter. The first p:irt contains N 4, in eights, besides the dedication. ..."
9. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Tragical History of the Troubles and Civill Warres of the Low Countries, black-
letter, 1581. 4s. 1511. Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, ..."
10. Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 by William Carew Hazlitt (1876)
"8", black letter, A—D in eights, the last leaf containing a coat of arms with
... Folio, black letter, printed in two columns. Aa, 4 leaves : a—z in sixes ..."
11. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"black letter. 9. ' The Articles wherefore John Frith he Dyed, which he wrote in
Newgate i the 23 day of June 1533/ London, 1548, ! 12mo, black letter. 10. ..."
12. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"The style of black-letter used in the first Bible and in the Psalter of 1457 was
the style preferred for sumptuous books by all ecclesiastics of the ..."
13. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"... X Black-letter ^LACK-LETTER is a degenerate form of the roman character.
Its mannerisms probably began with copyists not expert at curved lines, ..."
14. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"Imprinted at London in Flet-Stret, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S.
John Evangelist, by Thomas Colwell. nd 12°, black letter. ..."
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