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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 BOOKS BY MATTEO CAPCASA, TACUINUS DE TRIDINO, BONETUS LOCATELLUS, AND OTHERS

 

 

 

FROM BOOKS BY MATTEO CAPCASA, TACUINUS DE TRIDINO, BONETUS LOCATELLUS, AND OTHERS

FROM THE ‘MISSALE VALLISUMBROSE’ OF GIUNTA

FROM THE ‘MISSALE VALLISUMBROSE’ OF GIUNTA

FROM THE ‘MISSALE VALLISUMBROSE’ OF GIUNTA

FROM A VENETIAN IMPRESSION

 

 

FROM AN EDITION OF ARISTOTLE BY SESSA

 

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘VITA DI SANCTI PADRI’ OF OTINO DA PAVIA DE LA LUNA

 

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘VITA DI SANCTI PADRI’ OF OTINO DA PAVIA DE LA LUNA

 

 

 

 

 

INITIALS BY SESSA

 

FROM THE ‘BREVIARIUM ORBIS’ OF ZACHARIUS LILIUS

 

FROM A VENETIAN IMPRESSION

 

FROM WORKS BY VARIOUS PRINTERS

 

 

 

INITIALS BY DE GREGORIIS

 

 

INITIALS BY DE GREGORIIS

PORTRAIT OF COSMO DE MEDICI

PIUS ROMAE PONTIFEX

 

ROME

FROM THE ‘VITÆ CÆSARUM’ OF SUETONIUS BY SWEYNHEIM AND PANNARTZ, 1471

E. SILBER, 1507

JACOBUS MAZOCHIUS, 1515

 

SIENNA

 

 

FROM THE ‘OPERA DATHI’ OF NARDI, 1503

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘OPERA DATHI’ OF NARDI, 1503

COMO

 

 

 

FROM THE VITRUVIUS OF GOTARDUS DE PONTE

PAVIA

 

 

 

 

INITIALS OF J. DE BURGOFRANCO

SALUZZO

 

FROM THE ‘AUREUM OPUS’ OF LE SIGNERRE

VERONA

FROM A WORK BY CELSUS MAPHEUS

VICENZA

 

FROM A CATALOGUS SANCTORUM

 

BRESCIA

 

FROM THE ‘INVECTIVAE’ OF T. N. CYCHUTHOE

FERRARA

 

 

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘DE CLARIS MULIERIBUS’

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE CARTHUSIENSE,’ PRINTED BY THE MONKS AT THEIR CONVENT

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE CARTHUSIENSE,’ PRINTED BY THE MONKS AT THEIR CONVENT

MILAN

 

 

 

LETTRINES BY SCINZENZELLER

 

FROM THE ‘OPUS AUREE’ OF ZAROTUS, 1513

FROM THE ‘SERMONS OF ST. BERNARD,’ LEONARD PACHEL, 1495

 

 

FROM WORKS PRINTED BY GERARD PONTICUS

LYONS

 

 

‘LETTRES TOURNEURES FLEURONNÉES’ OF W. LEROY, 1479

FROM ‘LE PRESTRE JEHAN’

 

FROM ‘LES QUATRE FILS AYMON’ OF W. LEROY