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Cloister Oldstyle complete specimens

I am looking for existing printed specimens, or folks with the fonts who would could create samples of one or more fonts of the Cloister Oldstyle family. I am looking for all characters, in 6, 12 and 72 point only. (6, 8 and 48 point for the titling fonts, 12 and 72 for the cursive handtooled fonts.)

There are a few extra wrinkles for different specific faces. The general one is that I am looking for both the oldstyle and lining numerals (typically separate fonts). Most fonts shipped with the oldstyle numerals by default.

For the Titling fonts just a handful of characters would be fine, as long as they include the J and Q.

Reason for all this: I am looking to make an open source variable font digital version of Cloister Oldstyle. No, this won’t be completed overnight. Yes, I have made fonts with many masters and thousands of glyphs before.

The list of styles of Cloister: Oldstyle, Italic, Cursive, Bold, Bold Italic, Lightface, Lightface Italic, Title, Bold Title, Bold Condensed, Cursive Handtooled (the last in 12 and 72 only).

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FYI - there is a 42 point metal font of Cloister OldStyle for sale on FB Marketplace: https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1058820116809779/?ref=share_at...

Thanks! Sadly not one of the sizes I need. And acquiring type and printing from it is not the route I want to go. I am currently trying to downsize my physical goods! :)

Because of the size-specific adjustments to the designs and the fact that I am going to include an optical size axis, I am looking for printed samples of the largest and smallest, specifically.

I might bend on what intermediate size I use. 14 or 16 point instead of 12 would… not be crazy.

I have the 1923 and 1934 ATF specimen books (although my 1934 is in lousy shape), and access to some standalone specimen books from the Letterform Archive. But these mostly do not have complete showings, and when they do, mostly not at the sizes I need. I also have McGrew’s lovely book, which has good showings (complete or nearly so), but a bit larger.