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Early Woodcut Initials / Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

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A focused survey collects and annotates over thirteen hundred ornamental woodcut initials from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, pairing reproductions with descriptive notes. It opens with a preface and an introductory history of book ornamentation and the development of initials, then examines block-books and the early invention of printing. Successive chapters present regional studies of initials produced in major European printing centers, with commentary on stylistic features and documentary value. The volume concludes with a plate section of reproductions, transcriber's notes, and an index.

REPRODUCTIONS OF INITIALS

ULM

INITIAL WITH BORDER FROM THE XYLOGRAPHIC DONATUS OF DINCKMUT

INITIALS FROM BLOCK BOOKS

FROM AN ‘ARS MEMORANDI’

FROM THE ‘MIRABILIA ROMAE’

 

MAYENCE

FROM THE ÆSOP OF SCHEFFER

FROM THE BREIDENBACH OF ERHARDT REUWICH

 

AUGSBURG

 

 

 

FROM G. ZAINER’S SIXTH GERMAN BIBLE AND J. FRIBURGENSIS’ ‘SUMMA CONFESSORUM’

FROM G. ZAINER’S ‘MARGARITA DAVITICA’

 

 

INITIALS OF SORG

 

INITIALS OF KELLER

 

INITIALS OF HOHENWANG AND PFLANTZMANN

 

 

INITIALS OF SCHÖNSPERGER

 

 

INITIALS OF BÄMLER

 

 

FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE

 

 

FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE

 

FROM SORG’S ‘SUSO DICTUS AMANDUS’

 

FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY, 1491

 

 

 

FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY AND PSALTER, 1491-1499

 

 

FROM RATDOLT’S CONSTANCE MISSAL, 1516

 

 

 

INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER

 

 

INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER

ULM

 

 

FROM J. ZAINER’S BOCCACCIO

 

OTHER INITIALS OF G. ZAINER

 

FROM THE COSMOGRAPHIA OF PTOLEMY—LEONARD HOLL, 1482

FROM THE ULM BIBLE, 1480

 

INITIALS OF J. REGER, 1496

NUREMBERG

 

INITIALS OF PETER WAGNER, 1489

INITIAL OF J. REGIOMONTANUS

 

 

FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT

 

 

FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT

 

 

FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF J. GUTNECHT

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF J. GUTNECHT

BASLE

 

 

 

FROM RICHEL’S LATIN BIBLE, 1475

 

 

 

FROM FURTER’S PSALTER, 1501

 

 

INITIALS BY URS GRAF

FROM THE ‘CHRISTIANLICHE BILGERSCHAFT’ OF ADAM PETRI

 

INITIALS OF ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ BY LÜTZELBERGER

 

GREEK ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ INITIALS

‘DANCE OF DEATH’ INITIAL

FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN

 

 

 

 

STRASBURG COPIES OF THE ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ ALPHABET

 

INITIALS OF PEASANTS FROM THE ‘GALEN’ OF BEBELIUS AND CRATANDER

 

 

FROM CHILDREN’S ALPHABET IN ‘LACTANTIUS’ AND OTHER WORKS

 

FROM LARGER CHILDREN’S ALPHABET

FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN

 

 

 

 

INITIALS OF VALENTIN CURIO, FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN

 

 

 

INITIALS OF VALENTIN CURIO, FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN

 

FROM THE ‘GALEN’ OF BEBELIUS AND CRATANDER