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If anyone is looking for these as usable fonts I found this french designer Gilles Le Corre - http://www.gilleslecorre.com/pages/fonts.html - who makes a lot of fonts based of old manuscripts and books.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/glc/1467-pannartz-latin/

I am so immune to background images, and did not notice it at first, but the first link's background is NSFW.

Glad they didn't impose a 5000 year copyright period back then.

I'm currently taking a coursera typography class - I'm glad I can understand some of the historical context here.

Times Old Roman?

The First Roman Fonts