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

Chapter 63: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

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.

FINIS

EDINBURGH: T. AND A. CONSTABLE
PRINTERS TO HIS MAJESTY: MCMVIII


Transcriber’s Notes

The spelling, capitalisation and hyphenation of the source document have been retained (including those of proper names and book titles), except as listed under Changes made below.

Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.

The book appears to contain several contradictions between the descriptions given and the illustrations. These have been retained as printed in the source document without further correction or comment.

Several of the author’s references to other parts of the text and to (sets of) illustrations are ambiguous. Hyperlinks to such elements are provided only in cases where there is a clear reference to (the first element of) an unambiguous target.

Page 61, “At Turin ... we find that the L with the satyr,”: as printed in the source document; the sentence appears to be incomplete, or “we find that the L ...” might have to be corrected to “we find the L...”.

Page 109 ff.: The illustrations are presented here as printed in the source document, with minimal straightening and de-skewing. On a wide screen or in a wide window, the illustrations are intended to have widths that are approximately proportional to their relative widths in the source document.

Page 238, “Original size” and “Enlargement”: Based on a quarto book size of around 29 cm, the “Original size” would be around 4.1 × 4.1 cm (1.6″ × 1.6″).

Changes made

Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.

Footnotes have been moved to under text paragraphs.

Page 39: “LUBECK” changed to “LÜBECK”.

Page 92: “Psalterum of Harentals” changed to “Psalterium of Harentals”.

Page 99: “(B Abraham)” changed to “B (Abraham)”.

Page 137: “LUTZELBERGER” changed to “LÜTZELBERGER”.

Page 142: captions “FROM THE GREEK LEXICON OF RENÉ GELLI” and “FROM THE ‘GALEN’ OF BEBELIUS AND CRATANDER” interchanged.

Page 252: “BEZANÇON” changed to “BESANÇON”.

Page 282: “Zamara” changed to “Zamora”.

Page 284: “Leo the Isaurian burns the public” changed to “Leo the Isaurian burns the public library”.

Index: some page numbers corrected or inserted to conform to the text.