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

Chapter 62: INDEX
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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.

INDEX

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  • Æsop, initial from Scheffer’s edition, 112
  • —— initial from Albi edition, 95, 252
  • Albi, initial in the manière éraillée, from Æsop printed at, 95, 252
  • Alvarus Pelagius of J. Zainer, border used in, 23
  • Alvera, J., initial used by, at Coimbra, 253
  • Ambrose, St., portrait initial of, 211
  • Antwerp, initial from title-page of book printed at, 102, 262
  • —— initials used in books printed by G. Leeu at, 102, 261
  • Apianus, P., initials from Astronomicon Cesareum printed by, 107, 274 sq.
  • Apocalypse, different editions of the block-book, 4
  • Arion, initial representing the adventure of, 61
  • Aristotle, Opera Nonnulla printed by Keller, 17
  • —— initials in editions of, by H. Estienne, 232
  • Arrivabene, George, initials from missals printed by, 59, 171 sqq.
  • Ars Memorandi, historical initial in the, 5, 112
  • Ars Moriendi, the block-book, 4
  • Astronomicon Cesareum printed by P. Apianus at Ingoldstadt, 107, 274 sq.
  • Augsburg, 5
  • —— initials used by printers, 14, 113-122
  • Aureum Opus, initials from edition of, by De Vingle, 77, 208
  • Avignon, initials from volume printed at, 93, 251
  • Aymon, les Quatre Fils de, initials used in Lyons edition of, 195
  • Back, Godfrid, initials used by, 262
  • Bade, Josse, armorial initials in History of Denmark printed by, 85, 230
  • —— —— other initials of, 238
  • Bamberg, initials from missal of Johann Pfeyl of, 41, 152 sq.
  • —— initials from Missale Olumucense of, 41, 150 sq.
  • Bämler, Johann, initials from works printed by, 16, 117
  • Basle, initials reproduced from books printed at, 134-145
  • —— psalter of 1501 by Furter, initials from, 30, 135
  • Bebelius, Joannes, initials of Holbein in works published by, 33
  • Bebelius and Cratander, initials of Holbein in works by, 36
  • Bellot, Jean, initials from volumes printed by, 53
  • Benedictine missal printed at Hagenau, initials used in, 104, 264 sqq.
  • Bernard, le Petit, initials attributed to, 81
  • Berthorius, Petrus, initials from Morale Reductorium of, 81, 222
  • Besançon, printers of, use same initials as Furter of Basle, 95
  • —— initials of, 252
  • Bible, initials from G. Zainer’s editions of, 15, 24, 113, 115, 118 sq.
  • —— Latin, of Basle, initials from, 29, 134
  • —— initial from Ulm edition, 1480, 127
  • —— initial from a Lyons, 211
  • —— German edition, pictorial initials of the fifth, 17, 118 sq.
  • —— fourth edition by Frisner and Sensenschmidt, 26, 129 sq.
  • —— initials from Nuremberg edition, 129 sq.
  • —— the Bishops’, initials in, 108c, 279
  • Bibles, Augsburg and Nuremberg, compared, 17
  • Biblia cum Summariis et Concordantiis of Jean Moylin, initials of, 78, 212 sq.
  • Biblia Pauperum, the block-book, 4
  • Birckmann, Franc, Hagenau initials copied by, 105
  • Blanchard, remarkable initials used in works by, 77, 210
  • Block-books, initials from, 110
  • Bocard, André, initials in books printed by, 83, 108b
  • Book-hunting in time of Aulus Gellius, 1
  • Book-plate forming part of early Nuremberg impression, 27
  • Brandis, Lucas, initials from Rudimenta Novitiorum and Josephus of, 39, 146 sq.
  • Breidenbach, Bernard von, initial from Reuwich’s edition of his Peregrinationes, 75, 112
  • —— initials from Ortuin’s Lyons edition, 198
  • Brescia, initials from works printed at, 71, 189
  • Bridget, St., Meditationes, initials used in Lübeck edition of, 148 sq.
  • Brocart, Arn. de, initials used by, 259
  • Bumgart de Ketwyck, initials used by, at Cologne, 165
  • Burgofranco, J. P. de, initials in Hyginus de Stellis printed by, 67, 188
  • Burgos, initial used at, 256
  • Byzantium, books of, on purple parchment, 2
  • Calcar, J. van, initials of, in Anatomy of Vesalius, 37, 144 sq.
  • Calligraphic initials from Paris title-pages, 83
  • Capcasa, Matteo, initials from works published by, 58, 174 sq.
  • Cassiodorus, initial from works of, by Steyner, 21
  • Castilla, G., initial used by, at Valencia, 253
  • Catalogus Sanctorum of Saccon, 76, 214 sqq.
  • Catholicon of J. Wolff, selected initials from, 76, 206 sq.
  • Caxton, W., initials used by, 108b, 277
  • Cervicornus or Hirtzhorn, Euch., initials in works published by, 52, 168 sq.
  • Charlemagne invites Irish and Anglo-Saxon monks to his kingdom, 2
  • Charles the Bald welcomes foreign artists, 2
  • Chauny, Jean de, initials from works printed by, 251
  • Chevallon, Claude, initial representing scenes from Ars Moriendi in work published by, 88, 238
  • Children, initials with, used by Venice printers, 61
  • —— copied by printers of Basle, Cologne, and Hagenau, 61
  • Cicero, initials from German edition of, by Steyner, 21
  • Cocksperger, Peter, and the Mayence Psalter initials, 10
  • Coimbra, initials used by J. Alvira of, 98, 253
  • Cologne, initial from Donatus of, 51, 165
  • —— other initials used at, 165 sq.
  • Como, initials of Vitruvius printed at, 68, 187
  • Compilacion de Leyes, initials from Zamora edition, 255
  • Complutum (Alcala de Henares), initial used in liturgical works printed by Brocart at, 100, 259
  • Cosmographia of Ptolemy, initials from, 24, 127
  • —— of Sebastian Munster, account of Psalter initials in the, 9
  • Cranmer, Archbishop, initial with his arms, 108c, 279
  • Cromberger, J., initials used by, 256
  • Cross-hatching, invention of, 20
  • Cunningham, William, initials in his Cosmographical Glasse, 108c, 279
  • Curio, Valentin, initials used by, at Basle, 36, 140 sq.
  • Dance of Death alphabets used at Basle, 137
  • —— —— alphabet, Strasburg copies of, 33, 138
  • —— —— alphabet in books published at Stella, 98, 257
  • Dante, praises French miniaturists, 3
  • Day, John, initials used by, 108c, 278 sq.
  • Delft, initial used by Jacob van der Meer at, 102, 260
  • Deutscher Kalender, initials from, 44
  • Dinckmut, Conrad, initial and border from Donatus printed by, 12, 111
  • Doctrinal de Sapience, initial from title-page of, 53, 163
  • Donatus, Aelius, Latin primer of, 4
  • —— initial from edition of, by Quentell, 12
  • —— with Psalter initials attributed to Gutenberg (1456), 9
  • —— initial from xylographic impression by Dinckmut, 12, 111
  • Drach, Peter, initials in red from missal of Spires printed by, 103, 263
  • Dresden, initial used at, 270
  • Dupré, Jean, ornamental letters in the Vies des Anciens Saincts Pères of, 82
  • Dürer, Albert, makes innovation in engraving, 20
  • —— —— ornamental letters attributed to, 52, 168 sq.
  • Elizabeth, Queen, portrait-initial of, 108c, 280
  • English copies of initials by Kerver, 241
  • Erasmus, Desiderius, initial with portrait of, 78, 211
  • Esslingen, initials in works printed at, 46
  • Estienne, H., initials from work published by, 86, 232
  • Etymologicum Magnum of Callierges, coloured initials in the, 11
  • Eusebio di Comento, initials from Salamanca edition of, 96, 288
  • Ex-libris, initial forming, from book printed at Paris, 83
  • Fabio, Jacopo, mythological letters in works published by, 81, 225
  • Ferrara, alphabet of initials from work of Joh. Philippus Bergomensis printed at, 69, 190
  • —— initials from Missale Carthusiense of, 69, 191 sq.
  • Finé, Oronce, initial with portrait of, 87
  • Fool, first engraving of a, in a woodcut border, 23
  • —— first example of the, in woodcut initials, 17
  • —— in church architecture and early book ornamentation, 23
  • Forestier, Jacques, specimens of alphabets used in a Commines printed by, 93, 248
  • Formschneider, opposition of, to the use of woodcut initials, 15
  • Fossombrone, initials in work published by Ottaviano dei Petrucci of, 67
  • Foxe, John, portrait-initial of Queen Elizabeth, in his Book of Martyrs, 108c, 280
  • Fradin, François, children’s alphabet used by, 78, 211
  • —— initials from the Regimen Sanitatis of Magnini printed by, 77, 209
  • Frank, Hans, initial signed by, 81
  • Friburgensis, Johann, Summa Confessorum, Augsburg, G. Zainer (1476), initials used in, 15, 111
  • Frisner and Sensenschmidt, initials from fourth German Bible by, 26, 129 sqq.
  • Froben, Johann, initials of Holbein in works by, 37
  • Froschouer, Johann, initials in books printed at Zurich by, 38, 145
  • Fürter, Michael, initials from books printed by, 31, 135
  • Fust, Johann, association of, with Scheffer, 6
  • Galen, initials from Basle edition of, 139, 142
  • Gelli, René, initials in Greek lexicon of, 142
  • Geneva, large calligraphic initials from books printed at, 53, 163
  • —— other initials used at, 164
  • Gering, Ulrich. See Rembolt and Gering.
  • Ghotan, Bartholomew, initials used by, at Lübeck, 40, 147 sqq.
  • Giunta, Lucantonio di, initials from missals and breviaries printed by, 59, 171 sqq., 176 sqq.
  • Gouda, initials used by Godfrid de Os at, 101, 108b, 260
  • Graf, Urs, initials by, 136
  • Gregoriis, G. and J. de, initials from Herodotus and other works printed by, 59, 183 sq.
  • Grotesque, the, in book ornamentation, 87
  • —— profiles, earliest example of, 16
  • Grüninger, Johann, initials from works printed by, 46-47, 48, 160 sq.
  • Gutenberg, Johann, invention of printing by, 6
  • Gutenberg Bible sold by Scheffer as a manuscript, 8
  • Gutnecht, Jodocus, initials in Missale Pataviense of, 28, 132, 133
  • Gyffer, Hans, of Silgenstat, initials from works published at Salamanca by, 96, 288
  • Gymnicus, J., alphabets in works printed by, 53, 167
  • Hagenau, initials of Benedictine missal printed at, 104, 264 sq.
  • —— initials from Plinius printed by Thomas Anselm at, 104, 273
  • Halle’s Chronicle, initials in, 108c, 279
  • Harentals, Petrus de, initials used in an Expositio Psalterii by, 245
  • Heineken, C. H. von, attributes Psalter initials to Meydenbach, 9
  • Henry VII., initial with his arms, 279
  • Heraldic initials. See Initials, Armorial.
  • Hochffeder, Gaspard, initial from Psalter of Metz printed by, 106, 272
  • Hohenwang, Ludwig, initials used by, 116
  • Holbein, Ambrose, initials by, 144
  • —— Hans, alphabets of, 32, 139 sqq.
  • —— —— children’s alphabet by, 35, 139
  • —— —— Dance of Death alphabet by, 32, 137
  • —— —— initial of, in books by Valentine Curio, 36
  • —— —— mistakes in anatomy, 34
  • —— —— peasants’ alphabet by, 35
  • —— —— the four Greek initials from the Galen of 1538, 36
  • Holl, Leonard, initials in work printed by, 24, 127
  • Holtrop, J. W., early Dutch initials copied from works published by, 101
  • Hongre, Pierre, initials from missal of, 202 sqq.
  • Hopyl, Wolfgang, initials used by, 86, 232 sq.
  • Hostingue, L., and J. Loys, initials from work published by, 91, 250
  • Hupfuff, M., initials in works printed by, 45
  • Husz, Mathieu, initials used by, at Lyons, 197, 199
  • Imagines of Varro, described by Pliny, 2
  • Ingoldstadt, initials of M. Ostendorfer used at, 107
  • Initials, anthropomorphic, of Strasburg printers, 45
  • —— armorial, 85, 108c, 230, 279
  • —— coloured, used by Roman copyists, 1
  • —— from the Libro Sotilissimo, a typographical curiosity printed at Stella, 99
  • —— large calligraphic, on title-pages of books printed at Lyons, 75, 200
  • —— mythological, 224 sq.
  • —— in minium or cinnabar of sixth century, 2
  • —— of chequer work, 3
  • —— resembling Gallo-Frank jewellery, 3
  • —— vagaries in use of, 24
  • Israel von Mecken, initials by, 27
  • Italy, influence of French art in, 3
  • Josephus, initials from Lübeck edition of, 146
  • Josse Bade. See Bade.
  • Kaisersperg, Geyler von, initials in works of, 46, 49, 161 sq.
  • Keller, Ambrose, initials from works printed by, 16-17, 115
  • Kerver, Thielmann, initials by, 241
  • Knoblochtzer, Heinrich, initials from works printed by, 43, 155 sq.
  • Knoblouch, Johann, initials in works printed by, 46, 189, 272
  • Lecoq, Jean, alphabet from La Vie de Monseigneur St. Bernard by, 91, 244
  • —— letters with grotesque profiles from different works printed by, 90, 243
  • Leeu, Gerard, initials used by, 102, 261
  • Leicester, Earl of, initial with his arms, 108c, 279
  • Lenoir, Philippe, initials in works published by, 87, 234, 237, 241
  • Leo the Isaurian burns the public library, 2
  • Lerouges, les, initials from La Thoison d’Or printed by, 90, 242
  • Leroy, Guillaume, initials used by, 73, 195 sq.
  • Le Signerre, Guillaume, initials used by, at Saluzzo, 189
  • Lettres parlantes in Lyons impression, 81
  • —— tourneures fleuronnées used by Leroy in 1479, 73
  • Liber Biblie Moralis of J. Zainer, initials in, 23
  • Lilius, Zacharias, initials from the Breviarium Orbis of, 182
  • Limoges, initials from missal printed at, 94, 252
  • Locatellus, Bonetus, initials used in works printed by, 60, 174 sq.
  • Louvain, historiated initial from fifteenth-century missal printed at, 102, 261
  • Lübeck, initials from works published at, 39, 146 sqq.
  • Lufft of Wittemberg, initials used by, 105, 270
  • Lützelberger, Hans, Dance of Death initials engraved by, 137
  • Lyons, initials from books printed at, 194 sqq.
  • Lyons missals, initials used in different, 75
  • —— copy of Cologne initial, 169
  • Macabre initials used at Cologne, 170
  • Maiblümchen or lily of the valley design in early books, 5
  • Mainz. See Mayence.
  • Margarita Davitica, initial of G. Zainer from, 16, 114
  • Marriage licence, pictorial initial from, 108, 276
  • Martens, Thierry, initials used by, 102, 261
  • Mathieu Husz and Jean Schabeler, initials used in Boccaccio of, 74
  • Mayence, initial in Erhardt Reuwich’s Breidenbach, 13, 112
  • —— initial in Scheffer’s Æsop printed at, 13, 112
  • —— later Scheffer initial, 273
  • Mazochius, Jacobus, portrait of Ariosto in work published by, 65, 185
  • Medici, Cosmo de, initial with portrait of, 63, 184
  • Meditations of St. Bridget, initials from Lübeck edition of, 40
  • Meer, Jacob van der, initials used by, at Delft, 260
  • Melusine, initials from Lyons edition of, 199
  • Milan, initials from works printed at, 70, 192 sq.
  • —— initials from works printed by Joannes de Castellione at, 70
  • Miniatures in books of Athens and Rome, 2
  • —— in mediæval manuscripts, 2
  • Mirabilia Romae, historiated initial of the, 12, 112
  • Missale Atrebatense, initials from, 246, 247
  • —— Bambergense, initials from the edition by J. Pfeyl, 152 sq.
  • —— Benedictinum, initials from Hagenau edition of, 264 sqq.
  • —— Evangeliare of Wittemberg, initials from, 105, 270
  • —— Olumucense, coloured initials of the, 11-41, 150 sq.
  • —— Pataviense, pictorial initials from, 132 sq., 271
  • —— Vallisumbrose, large pictorial initials from, 59, 176 sqq.
  • Missals printed at Lyons, initials from, 201 sqq., 205
  • —— printed at Paris, 232 sqq.
  • —— printed at Rouen, 247 sq.
  • Modernes, Jacques, curious initial in work on Military Art printed by, 81, 222
  • Monks, Irish and Anglo-Saxon, celebrated for miniatures and historiations, 2
  • Montfaucon, alphabet of animals of, 3
  • Morin, Martin, calligraphic initial from missal printed by, 92, 246
  • —— —— initials from other works published by, 92-93, 246 sq.
  • Morton, Archbishop, initial with his rebus, 108c, 277
  • Moylin, Jean, initials from his Latin Bible, 78, 212 sq.
  • Müller, Johann, or Regiomontanus, works by, 25
  • Murr, C. G. von, and the artist of the Psalter initials, 10
  • Nardi, Simeon, initials from Datus published by, 65, 185 sq.
  • Naudé, Gabriel, accusation against Scheffer, 8
  • Normandie, Coustumier de, curious initials from a, 92, 250
  • Novesianus, Melchior, imitations of Alphabet of Death in works printed by, 53
  • —— —— other initials used by, 167
  • Nuremberg, curious work attributed variously to Stuchs, Zeninger, and Wagner published at, 26, 54
  • —— initials from books printed at, 128 sqq.
  • Ornamentation of early books, 1
  • Oronce Finé. See Finé.
  • Ortuin, Gaspard, initial from Breidenbach’s Peregrinationes, 75, 198
  • Os, Godfrid de, initials used by, 260
  • Otino da Pavia de la Luna, initials in the Vita di Sancti Padri of, 62, 179 sq.
  • Pachel, Leonard, initials used by, at Milan, 193
  • Papillon, J. B. M., testimony of, concerning the artist of the Psalter initials, 10
  • Paris, renowned for its manuscripts and copyists, 3
  • —— initials used at, 226 sqq.
  • Pavia, initials used at, 188
  • Peter, St., portrait initial of, 276
  • Petrarch, initials from German translation of his De remediis utriusque fortunæ, by Steyner, 21
  • Petri, Adam, repetition of same initial in books printed by, 31
  • —— —— pilgrim initial used by, 136
  • Petroine, La vie et légende de Mme. Ste., initials from, 95, 252
  • Pfister, Alb., impressions of, resembling block-books, 11
  • Pflantzmann, J., initials from books printed by, 16, 116
  • Philip le Bel, portrait initial of, 262
  • Philosophers, alphabets of, 81, 223 sq.
  • Pius II., Pope, portrait initial of, 184
  • Playing-cards, method of printing, 4
  • Plenarium, initials used in Strasburg edition of, 158
  • Pogge, J. F., initials from edition of, printed by Knoblouch, 46, 159
  • Poitiers, initials from books printed at, 94, 251
  • Polychrome initials in early books, 11
  • Ponte, Gotardus de, initials from Vitruvius printed by, 187
  • Poullet, J., initials used by, 204
  • Prestre Jehan, historiated initial from title-page of, 73, 195
  • —— —— initials from Paris edition of, 237
  • Propriétaire, initials from Rouen editions of, 92, 249
  • —— letters from Lyons edition of, 77, 208
  • Prusz, Johann, initials used by, at Strasburg, 46, 158
  • Psalter of Mayence initials, Bodman hoaxes Fischer concerning, 8
  • —— initials from Furter’s Basle edition of, 135
  • —— initials from edition by J. Prusz of Strasburg, 46, 154
  • —— initials said to have been used by Gutenberg, 8
  • —— opinions as to the initials of, 7
  • Ptolemy, initials from Ulm edition of the Cosmographia, 24, 127
  • Pynson, Richard, initials from his Sarum Missal, 108b, 277
  • Quadragesimale of Gritsch, pictorial border of the, 23
  • Quentell, Heinrich, initials from volumes printed by, 53, 165 sq.
  • Ratdolt, Erhard, initials from Calendarium of J. di Monteregio (Johannes Regiomontanus) by, 57, 171
  • —— —— initials in Brevarium Constantiense of 1516 by, 19, 123
  • —— —— initials in breviary by, 18, 121 sq.
  • —— —— initials in psalter of 1499 by, 18-19, 122
  • —— —— Latin couplet on, 19
  • Rationale Durandi, ornamented with some of the same initials as Psalter of Mayence, 11
  • Reger, Johann, initials in works printed by, 25, 128
  • Rembolt and Gering, initials from volumes printed by, 83-84, 228 sqq.
  • Reutlingen, initials in works printed at, 49, 162
  • Richard de Bury praises libraries of Paris, 3
  • Richel, Bernard, initials from Latin Bible of, 29
  • Rome, initials used at, 185
  • Rouen, initials used at, 11, 245 sqq.
  • Royal letters designed by Geoffroy Tory for Robert Estienne, 89, 240
  • Rudimenta Novitiorum, initials from Lübeck edition of, 146 sq.
  • Saccon, Jacques, initials in Catalogus Sanctorum of, 78, 214 sqq.
  • —— —— different initials in works printed by, 80, 201, 205, 209, 222
  • Salamanca, initials used at, 258
  • Saluzzo, initials in Aureum Opus of Vivaldus printed by Le Signerre at, 68, 189
  • Sarum missal, initials from Pynson’s edition of, 108b, 277
  • Saxo Grammaticus, armorial initials from History of Denmark by, 85, 230
  • Schabeler, Hans, initials used by, at Lyons, 197
  • Schäufelein, Hans, initials by, 49
  • Scheffer, Peter, association of, with Fust, 6
  • —— —— initials used by, 107, 112, 273
  • Schiedam, initial used by unknown printer of, 102, 261
  • Schlestadt, initials of Pilgrim, from book printed by Lazarus Schurer at, 106
  • Scinzenzeller, Ulr., initials used by, 192
  • Schönsperger, Johann, initials from works printed by, 16, 116
  • Schott, initials in works printed by, 45, 157
  • Sessa, different initials met with in impressions by, 59, 181
  • —— initials from Aristotle printed by, 62, 178
  • Seville, initials from books printed by Jacob Cromberger at, 98
  • —— initials from book printed by Juan de Varila at, 98, 253
  • Sienna, initials in books published at, 65-66, 185
  • Silber, Eucharius, ornamental letter from book published, 65, 185
  • Sorg, Anton, historiated initials from Das Buch das heisset der Seusse of Suso, 18, 120
  • —— —— initials from works printed by, 16-17, 115, 120
  • Spanish initials, 253 sqq.
  • Speculum Humanæ Salvationis, a transition from xylography to printing, 4
  • Spires, initials used at, 263
  • Stamps used for applying initials by early copyists, 4
  • Statuta Synodalia, alphabet used in the Troyes edition of, 73, 243
  • Stella, copies of the Alphabet of Death used by Adrian Anverez at, 99, 257
  • Steyner, Heinrich, initials in works published by, 20, 124 sq.
  • Strasburg, initials used at, 154 sqq.
  • Summa Confessorum, initials of the, 15-16, 113
  • Suso, Henricus, initials from Das Buch das heisset der Seusse, 120
  • Sweynheim and Pannartz, initial from the Suetonius of, 65, 185
  • Theoricae Novae, initial from, 25
  • Tibullus quoted, 1
  • Topie, Michel, initial from Mer des Hystoires of, 75, 198
  • Tory, Geoffroy, initials from missal attributed to, 88, 235 sq.
  • —— —— royal letters attributed to, 240
  • Toulouse, initial used at, 252
  • Trepperel, Jean, grotesque initials in books published by, 83, 227
  • Trepperel, initials from Jardin de Santé of, 86, 231
  • Tridino, Tacuinus de, initials in works published by, 60, 174
  • Troyes, initials used at, 242 sqq.
  • Ulm, initial with border from Donatus printed at, 12, 111
  • —— initials from other works printed at, 126 sqq.
  • Valerius Maximus of Sorg, initials from, 17
  • Varila, Juan de, initial used by, 253
  • Vascosan, Michael, initials by, 239
  • Venice, initials from works published at, 55, 171 sqq.
  • Vérard, Antoine, calligraphic initial from the Jardin de Santé of, 82, 226
  • Verona, ornamental letter from book printed at, 70, 189
  • Vesalius, initials of Van Calcar in Anatomy of, 37, 144 sq.
  • Vicenza, example of typographic eccentricities in work printed at, 71, 189
  • Vienna, initials from Missale Pataviense printed by J. Winterberger of, 106, 271
  • Virgil, the Vatican copy described by M. Pierre de Nolhac, 2
  • Vita di Sancti Padri, initials from the, of Otino da Pavia de la Luna, 62, 179 sq.
  • Vitali, Bernardino, alphabet by, used in publications by Sessa, 60
  • Vitruvius, initials from Como edition of, 187
  • Walther, H., initials from Madgeburg Bible printed by, 107, 273
  • Weiditz, Hans, initials attributed to, by Dr. H. Röttinger, 20, 52, 124 sq.
  • Winterberger, of Vienna, initials used by, 271
  • Wittemberg, apocalyptic initials from the Missale Evangeliare printed at, 105, 270
  • Wohlgemuth, M., his new technical methods, 20
  • Worde, Wynkyn de, initial used by, 277
  • Worms, Anton von, children’s alphabets designed by, 53
  • Zainer, Günther, first used woodcut initials at Augsburg, 15
  • —— —— examples of his letters, 113 sq., 118 sq.
  • —— Johann, of Ulm, initials in Boccaccio of, 22, 126
  • Zamora, initials from Compilacion de Leyes printed at, 96, 255
  • Zarotus, Antonius, initials used by, at Milan, 193
  • Zodiac, initials representing the signs of the, 87
  • Zurich, initials in books published by Froschouer of, 38, 145