Brot und Wein
By: Hölderlin
Publisher: D. Stempel AG
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: ger
Subjects: Printing; Specimens; Type and type-founding
Notes: Date from inscription on Houghton Library copy.

"The first drawings for this typeface were designed in 1948.^ Three years later the typeface was completed at the typefoundry of D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main."^Cf. Zapf von Hesse.

Zapf von Hesse, G. ^Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, p. 9

Gift; Patricia G. England; 1995 June; 94H-162.

From the library of Patricia G. England, inscribed by the type designer: "One of the first uses of Diotima Roman printed 1950. For Pat England with best regards from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse."