What are the oldest type drawings?

James Puckett

What are the oldest known preparatory drawings for type? The Romain du Roi?

Kent Lew

Hmm. That sounds about right. If you can call them that.

Alex Kaczun

Mergenthaler Linotype had hand drawings in their archives (really large), about 16-18 inch cap height, dating back to early 1880-90s. I saw them. Alpha numeric drawings for the United States government (federal Reserve). Printing money I guess. A lot of other typefaces as well. I just seem to remember looking at the Federal stuff which had an incredible amount of parameter specs on each drawing. Really cool stuff.