This question [0] in the TeX Stack Exchange has beautiful typesetted examples, like this LaTeX facsimile of (one page of) a Bible de Genève of 1564 [1], and Byr

This question [0] in the TeX Stack Exchange has beautiful typesetted examples, like this LaTeX facsimile of (one page of) a Bible de Genève of 1564 [1], and Byrne's Elements of Euclyd from 1847 [2] [0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1319/777 https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1319/777 [1] https://github.com/raphink/geneve_1564/releases/download/2016-06-08_02/geneve_1564.pdf https://github.com/raphink/geneve_1564/releases/download/201... [2] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/download/Current/byrne_context.pdf https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/downloa...