Jean Midolle was a French calligrapher and graphic artist, most active in the years of 1830-1846. There is a great article at The Letterform Archive about Jean and the work behind his fonts/chromolithographs.
Here are some high-quality scans of his work. I’ve saved a copy of them to this website, just in case they disappear off the internet in the future 🧙♂️✨
Album Historique et Religieux (1837)
More about this album: http://rarebookroom.org/Control/mdlwrn/index.html
http://rarebookroom.org/Control/mdlwrn/index.html
https://archive.org/details/mdlwrn/22/001mdlwrn22
Album du Moyen-Âge (1836)
Album du Moyen-Âge scans at the Web Archive.
Local archive in JP2 format (161mb)
Traité complet d’écritures en tous genres et d’ornements moyen-âge : / d’après le systême méthodique de J. Midolle. (~1840)
Traité complet d’écritures en tous genres et d’ornements moyen-âge at the Swiss e-rara (higher quality than the PDF below)
Local PDF archive (75 Mb)
