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

Chapter 60: LATER GERMAN INITIALS
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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 ‘COMPILACION DE LEYES,’ PRINTED AT ZAMORA

 

INITIALS USED BY J. CROMBERGER

 

FROM A MEDICAL BOOK

FROM A BOOK PRINTED AT BURGOS

 

ORIGIN UNCERTAIN

 

 

DANCE OF DEATH INITIALS FROM THE ‘LIBRO SOTILISSIMO’ PRINTED AT STELLA

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘COMENTO DE EUSEBIO’ OF H. GYFFER, SALAMANCA

 

FROM THE ‘PASSIONARIUM’ OF BROCART, COMPLUTUM

 

FROM THE ‘EPILOGO IN MEDICINA’

EARLY DUTCH INITIALS

USED BY JACOB VAN DER MEER OF DELFT

 

 

 

 

USED BY GODFRID DE OS OF GOUDA

FROM THE ‘LIFE OF ST. LYDWINNE’ PRINTED AT SCHIEDAM

ENGLISH ADAPTATION OF THE PRECEDING

 

 

USED BY THIERRY MARTENS

USED BY G. LEEU OF ANTWERP

FROM AN EARLY LOUVAIN MISSAL

 

FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF A ‘BELIAL’ OF ANTWERP

FROM A LEYDEN TITLE-PAGE

 

PORTRAIT OF PHILIP LE BEL, FROM A WORK PUBLISHED BY GODFRID BACK OF ANTWERP

LATER GERMAN INITIALS

 

FROM THE MISSAL OF SPIRES BY PETER DRACH

 

FROM THE BENEDICTINE MISSAL OF HAGENAU

 

FROM THE BENEDICTINE MISSAL OF HAGENAU

 

FROM THE BENEDICTINE MISSAL OF HAGENAU

 

FROM THE BENEDICTINE MISSAL OF HAGENAU

FROM THE BENEDICTINE MISSAL OF HAGENAU

 

 

FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED (? MAGDEBURG) MISSAL

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE POSNANIENSE’

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE EVANGELIARE’ OF LUTHER, BY KRAFFT OF WITTEMBURG

 

INITIALS USED AT DRESDEN

 

INITIALS BY PILGRIM IN THE ‘ELEGANTIAE’ OF LAURENTIUS VALLA, BY SCHURER, SCHLESTADT

 

 

FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF WINTERBERGER, VIENNA

 

 

FROM WORKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOUCH

FROM A METZ PSALTER BY CASPAR HOCHFFEDER

 

FROM PLINIUS OF HAGENAU, USED AFTERWARDS AT COLOGNE

 

FROM A MAGDEBURG BIBLE

BY SCHEFFER OF MAYENCE

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘ASTRONOMICON CESAREUM’ OF APIANUS

 

 

 

FROM THE ‘ASTRONOMICON CESAREUM’ OF APIANUS

FROM AN ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENT

ENGLISH INITIALS

CAXTON’S ‘A’

WYNKYN DE WORDE’S BORROWED ‘H’

 

 

 

FROM PYNSON’S MORTON MISSAL

 

 

INITIALS USED BY JOHN DAY

INITIAL WITH ARMS OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER, FROM THE BISHOPS’ BIBLE

INITIAL WITH ARMS OF HENRY VII., FROM GRAFTON’S EDITION OF ‘HALLE’S CHRONICLE’

INITIAL WITH ARMS OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, FROM DAY’S EDITION OF CUNNINGHAM’S ‘COSMOGRAPHICAL GLASS’

 

PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH FROM DAY’S EDITION OF FOXE’S ‘BOOK OF MARTYRS’