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Intertwining strengths simon de colines and robert estienne

Intertwining Strengths Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne Kay Amert Book History Volume pp - Article Published by Johns Hopkins University Press DOI https doi org bh For additional information about this article https muse jhu edu article Access provided at Oct GMT from University of Melbourne-Library other institution account CIntertwining Strengths Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne Kay Amert Among the printers who worked in Paris in the sixteenth century two of the most intriguing and signi ?cant were Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne Colines was a punchcutter an expert on types He became a printer in when on the death of Henri Estienne he took up direction of Estienne ? s workshop Like Estienne before him Colines became a libraire juré a select printer to the university in Paris Through the end of his career in he printed texts used in the study of the liberal arts theology and medicine along with a range of titles of interest to a broader audience including the Bible Books of Hours and much classical and contemporary literature Colines produced a very large body of work more than editions over twenty-six years many of them distinguished by his expertise with type He was at the vanguard in the modernization of French typographical style revising and improving extant fonts and introducing a series of new romans and italics that were to be in uential Colines inherited not just the workshop of Henri Estienne but also his wife and responsibility for his children Three sons François Robert and Charles all were later involved in printing and publishing in Paris adding to the accomplishments of what is often called the Estienne ??dynasty ? of printers In Colines moved his rapidly expanding business into a new workshop a few doors up the street on the rue St Jean de Beauvais He witnessed the marriage of Robert Estienne to Perette Badius the daughter C Book History of another university printer and helped set up Robert as an independent rather than a university printer in the original Estienne workshop Scholars have assumed that Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne subsequently had quite separate careers perhaps even becoming competitors in the trade Many of the authors and texts found in the more than editions produced by Robert Estienne are identical with Colines ? s and his characterization as a ??scholar-printer ? is sometimes taken as implying that his books too were made principally for university students and scholars Some historians also have argued that the two men were rivals in the context of fonts Estienne ? s commission of Claude Garamond in the s to cut a series of royal Greek types for instance has been taken as evidence of a typographical practice separate from Colines ? s In turn it has fostered the notion that Estienne earlier had had Garamond cut both his roman types and the italic he began to use in the early s The portrait of the relationship between Simon de Colines and Robert