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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.

 

 

FROM THE GREEK LEXICON OF RENÉ GELLI

FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN

 

 

 

 

OTHER INITIALS BY HOLBEIN

 

INITIALS BY HOLBEIN

 

INITIALS FROM ALPHABET BY AMBROSE HOLBEIN

 

INITIALS BY VAN CALCAR FROM VESALIUS

 

INITIALS BY VAN CALCAR FROM VESALIUS

ZÜRICH

 

 

INITIALS USED BY FROSCHOUER

LÜBECK

FROM THE ‘RUDIMENTA NOVITIORUM’ AND JOSEPHUS OF LUCAS BRANDIS, 1475

 

 

FROM THE ‘RUDIMENTA NOVITIORUM’ AND JOSEPHUS OF LUCAS BRANDIS, 1475

FROM THE ‘LEBEN DES HEIL. HIERONYMUS’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN, 1484

 

FROM THE ‘MEDITATIONES SANCTÆ BRIGITTÆ’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN

 

 

FROM THE ‘MEDITATIONES SANCTÆ BRIGITTÆ’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN

BAMBERG

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE OLUMUCENSE’ OF SENSENSCHMIDT, 1489

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE OLUMUCENSE’ OF SENSENSCHMIDT, 1489

 

FROM A BAMBERG MISSAL

 

 

 

FROM THE BAMBERG MISSAL OF J. PFEYL, 1506

 

 

FROM THE BAMBERG MISSAL OF J. PFEYL, 1506

STRASBURG

FROM T. DE HASELPACH’S ‘SERMONES’

FROM ‘BURGUNDISCHE HISTORIE’

 

FROM ‘DIALOGUS SALOMONIS ET MARCOLFI’

FROM ‘BELIAL’ AND OTHER BOOKS

 

FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOCHTZER

 

 

FROM THE ‘DEUTSCHER KALENDER’ AND OTHER BOOKS

FROM THE ‘DE SECRETIS MULIERUM’

FROM THE ‘DE RITU ET MORIBUS INDORUM’

 

FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOCHTZER

 

ANTHROPOMORPHIC LETTERS USED BY VARIOUS PRINTERS

 

INITIALS FROM THE ‘SCRIPTUM’ OF G. DE OCKAM, AND THE ‘COMMENTARIUS SANCTI JOHANNIS,’ PRINTED BY G. SCHOTT

 

LETTERS FROM THE ‘PLENARIUM’

 

 

OTHER STRASBURG INITIALS

 

 

 

FROM A PSALTER BY J. PRUSZ, 1498

 

FROM KNOBLOUCH’S ‘POGGE,’ 1513

 

 

 

 

FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY GRÜNINGER

 

FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY GRÜNINGER

FROM ‘SERMONES’ OF GEILER VON KAISERSPERG

FROM ‘SERMONES’ OF GEILER VON KAISERSPERG

REUTLINGEN

 

FROM BOOKS PRINTED BY G. GRYFF

GENEVA

FROM THE ‘DOCTRINAL DE SAPIENCE’ OF 1488

FROM ‘LES FLEURS ET MANIÈRES DES TEMPS PASSÉS’

FROM THE ‘DOCTRINAL DE SAPIENCE’ OF 1493

 

 

FROM THE ‘DIALOGUS CREATURUM’

 

FROM A MISSAL OF BELLOT

COLOGNE

FROM QUENTELL’S MISSAL, 1494

FROM A DONATUS

 

 

FROM ‘SEQUENTIARUM ET HYMNORUM’ EXPOSITIO BY BUNGART DE KETWYCK

 

 

OTHER INITIALS BY QUENTELL

 

 

BY MELCHIOR NOVESIANUS

BY J. GYMNICUS

 

 

 

FROM ALPHABET OF ALBERT DÜRER IN BOOKS BY CERVICORNUS

 

 

FROM ALPHABET OF ALBERT DÜRER IN BOOKS BY CERVICORNUS

A LYONS COPY

 

 

MACABRE INITIALS

COPIED FROM THE VENETIAN ‘BREVIARUM ORBIS’ OF LILIUS

VENICE

 

INITIALS OF RATDOLT, 1476

 

 

FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA

 

 

 

FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA

 

 

 

FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA

 

FROM A BOOK PRINTED BY BONETUS LOCATELLUS