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

Chapter 55: AVIGNON
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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 MISSALS BY WOLFGANG HOPYL

 

 

 

FROM MISSALS BY WOLFGANG HOPYL

 

INITIALS USED BY PHILIPPE LENOIR, TREPPEREL, AND OTHERS

 

 

 

FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED MISSAL ATTRIBUTED TO G. TORY

 

 

FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED MISSAL ATTRIBUTED TO G. TORY

FROM A PARIS MISSAL

 

 

GROTESQUE MISSAL INITIALS

 

 

 

FROM A ‘PROPRIETAIRE’ OF PHILIPPE LENOIR

 

 

INITIALS USED BY JOSSE BADE

(Original size)

(Enlargement)

 

INITIALS USED BY CHEVALLON

 

INITIALS BY VASCOSAN

 

 

INITIALS BY SIMON DE COLINES

 

ROYAL LETTERS DESIGNED BY GEOFFROY TORY

FROM KERVER’S ALPHABET

FROM DE LA BARRE’S PRESS

 

 

ENGLISH COPIES OF KERVER

COPY OF REMBOLT

FROM PHILIP LE NOIR

 

 

PEN LETTERS OF PHILIP LE NOIR

TROYES

 

 

FROM ‘LA THOISON D’OR’ BY THE LEROUGES

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘GRADUALE TRECENSE’ AND ‘STATUTA SYNODALIA’ BY LECOQ

 

 

 

 

 

LITTLE LETTERS OF THE ‘VIE DE MONSEIGNEUR ST. BERNARD’ OF LECOQ

ROUEN

 

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘PSALTERII EXPOSITIO’ OF PETRUS DE HARENTALS

 

 

FROM VARIOUS WORKS BY MARTIN MORIN

FROM THE ‘MISSALE ATREBATENSE’ OF MARTIN MORIN

 

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE ATREBATENSE’ OF MARTIN MORIN

 

 

FROM THE ‘COMMINES’ OF J. FORESTIER

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘PROPRIETAIRE’ OF J. FORESTIER

 

FROM THE ‘OPERA GUILELMI MONACHI VALLADII’ BY HOSTINGUE

 

 

 

FROM A ‘COUSTUMIER DE NORMANDIE’ OF 1523

AVIGNON

 

 

FROM WORKS PRINTED BY JEAN DE CHAUNY

POITIERS

FROM A POITIERS MISSAL

USED IN IMPRESSIONS OF POITIERS

FROM A ‘COUSTUMIER DE POITOU’

 

FRANCE

FROM A LIMOGES MISSAL

FROM TOULOUSE

FROM A LIMOGES MISSAL

 

FROM THE ÆSOP OF ALBI

FROM ‘LA VIE ET LÉGENDE DE MME. STE. PETROINE’

 

 

FROM BESANÇON

SPANISH TOWNS

 

FROM VALENCIA, BY G. CASTILLA

FROM SEVILLE, BY JUAN DE VARILA

FROM COIMBRA, BY J. ALVERA

 

 

ORIGIN UNCERTAIN