REPRODUCTIONS OF INITIALS
Reading edition
ULM
INITIAL WITH BORDER FROM THE XYLOGRAPHIC DONATUS OF DINCKMUT
INITIALS FROM BLOCK BOOKS
FROM AN ‘ARS MEMORANDI’
FROM THE ‘MIRABILIA ROMAE’
MAYENCE
FROM THE ÆSOP OF SCHEFFER
FROM THE BREIDENBACH OF ERHARDT REUWICH
AUGSBURG
FROM G. ZAINER’S SIXTH GERMAN BIBLE AND J. FRIBURGENSIS’ ‘SUMMA CONFESSORUM’
FROM G. ZAINER’S ‘MARGARITA DAVITICA’
INITIALS OF SORG
INITIALS OF KELLER
INITIALS OF HOHENWANG AND PFLANTZMANN
INITIALS OF SCHÖNSPERGER
INITIALS OF BÄMLER
FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE
FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE
FROM SORG’S ‘SUSO DICTUS AMANDUS’
FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY, 1491
FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY AND PSALTER, 1491-1499
FROM RATDOLT’S CONSTANCE MISSAL, 1516
INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER
INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER
ULM
FROM J. ZAINER’S BOCCACCIO
OTHER INITIALS OF G. ZAINER
FROM THE COSMOGRAPHIA OF PTOLEMY—LEONARD HOLL, 1482
FROM THE ULM BIBLE, 1480
INITIALS OF J. REGER, 1496
NUREMBERG
INITIALS OF PETER WAGNER, 1489
INITIAL OF J. REGIOMONTANUS
FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT
FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT
FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN BIBLE OF FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDT
FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF J. GUTNECHT
FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF J. GUTNECHT
BASLE
FROM RICHEL’S LATIN BIBLE, 1475
FROM FURTER’S PSALTER, 1501
INITIALS BY URS GRAF
FROM THE ‘CHRISTIANLICHE BILGERSCHAFT’ OF ADAM PETRI
INITIALS OF ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ BY LÜTZELBERGER
GREEK ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ INITIALS
‘DANCE OF DEATH’ INITIAL
FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN
STRASBURG COPIES OF THE ‘DANCE OF DEATH’ ALPHABET
INITIALS OF PEASANTS FROM THE ‘GALEN’ OF BEBELIUS AND CRATANDER
FROM CHILDREN’S ALPHABET IN ‘LACTANTIUS’ AND OTHER WORKS
FROM LARGER CHILDREN’S ALPHABET
FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN
INITIALS OF VALENTIN CURIO, FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN
INITIALS OF VALENTIN CURIO, FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN
FROM THE ‘GALEN’ OF BEBELIUS AND CRATANDER
FROM THE GREEK LEXICON OF RENÉ GELLI
FROM ALPHABETS BY HANS HOLBEIN
OTHER INITIALS BY HOLBEIN
INITIALS BY HOLBEIN
INITIALS FROM ALPHABET BY AMBROSE HOLBEIN
INITIALS BY VAN CALCAR FROM VESALIUS
INITIALS BY VAN CALCAR FROM VESALIUS
ZÜRICH
INITIALS USED BY FROSCHOUER
LÜBECK
FROM THE ‘RUDIMENTA NOVITIORUM’ AND JOSEPHUS OF LUCAS BRANDIS, 1475
FROM THE ‘RUDIMENTA NOVITIORUM’ AND JOSEPHUS OF LUCAS BRANDIS, 1475
FROM THE ‘LEBEN DES HEIL. HIERONYMUS’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN, 1484
FROM THE ‘MEDITATIONES SANCTÆ BRIGITTÆ’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN
FROM THE ‘MEDITATIONES SANCTÆ BRIGITTÆ’ BY BARTHOLOMEW GHOTAN
BAMBERG
FROM THE ‘MISSALE OLUMUCENSE’ OF SENSENSCHMIDT, 1489
FROM THE ‘MISSALE OLUMUCENSE’ OF SENSENSCHMIDT, 1489
FROM A BAMBERG MISSAL
FROM THE BAMBERG MISSAL OF J. PFEYL, 1506
FROM THE BAMBERG MISSAL OF J. PFEYL, 1506
STRASBURG
FROM T. DE HASELPACH’S ‘SERMONES’
FROM ‘BURGUNDISCHE HISTORIE’
FROM ‘DIALOGUS SALOMONIS ET MARCOLFI’
FROM ‘BELIAL’ AND OTHER BOOKS
FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOCHTZER
FROM THE ‘DEUTSCHER KALENDER’ AND OTHER BOOKS
FROM THE ‘DE SECRETIS MULIERUM’
FROM THE ‘DE RITU ET MORIBUS INDORUM’
FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOCHTZER
ANTHROPOMORPHIC LETTERS USED BY VARIOUS PRINTERS
INITIALS FROM THE ‘SCRIPTUM’ OF G. DE OCKAM, AND THE ‘COMMENTARIUS SANCTI JOHANNIS,’ PRINTED BY G. SCHOTT
LETTERS FROM THE ‘PLENARIUM’
OTHER STRASBURG INITIALS
FROM A PSALTER BY J. PRUSZ, 1498
FROM KNOBLOUCH’S ‘POGGE,’ 1513
FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY GRÜNINGER
FROM VARIOUS BOOKS PRINTED BY GRÜNINGER
FROM ‘SERMONES’ OF GEILER VON KAISERSPERG
FROM ‘SERMONES’ OF GEILER VON KAISERSPERG
REUTLINGEN
FROM BOOKS PRINTED BY G. GRYFF
GENEVA
FROM THE ‘DOCTRINAL DE SAPIENCE’ OF 1488
FROM ‘LES FLEURS ET MANIÈRES DES TEMPS PASSÉS’
FROM THE ‘DOCTRINAL DE SAPIENCE’ OF 1493
FROM THE ‘DIALOGUS CREATURUM’
FROM A MISSAL OF BELLOT
COLOGNE
FROM QUENTELL’S MISSAL, 1494
FROM A DONATUS
FROM ‘SEQUENTIARUM ET HYMNORUM’ EXPOSITIO BY BUNGART DE KETWYCK
OTHER INITIALS BY QUENTELL
BY MELCHIOR NOVESIANUS
BY J. GYMNICUS
FROM ALPHABET OF ALBERT DÜRER IN BOOKS BY CERVICORNUS
FROM ALPHABET OF ALBERT DÜRER IN BOOKS BY CERVICORNUS
A LYONS COPY
MACABRE INITIALS
COPIED FROM THE VENETIAN ‘BREVIARUM ORBIS’ OF LILIUS
VENICE
INITIALS OF RATDOLT, 1476
FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA
FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA
FROM MISSALS AND BREVIARIES BY GEORGE ARRIVABENE AND LUCANTONIO DI GIUNTA
FROM A BOOK PRINTED BY BONETUS LOCATELLUS
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
FROM THE ‘STATUTA SYNODALIA’ OF W. LEROY
FROM THE BOCCACCIO OF MATHIEU AND JEAN SCHABELER, 1483
FROM THE BREIDENBACH OF GASPARD ORTUIN
FROM ‘LA MER DES HYSTOIRES’ BY MICHEL TOPIE
FROM A MELUSINE
LETTRES RUSTIQUES OF MATHIEU HUSZ
FROM THE ‘LIVRE DES MARCHANDS’
FROM THE ‘SOMME RURALE’ OF BOUTELLIER
FROM THE ‘CATHON EN FRANÇOYS’
LYONS COPY OF AN INITIAL FROM THE BOECE OF VÉRARD
FROM SACCON’S MISSAL
FROM THE MISSAL OF PIERRE HONGRE
FROM THE MISSAL OF PIERRE HONGRE
FROM THE MISSAL OF PIERRE HONGRE
INITIALS BY J. POULLET, 1505
FROM THE MISSAL OF NARBONNE, 1528
FROM A LYONS MISSAL
FROM A ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATHOLICON’ OF J. WOLFF, 1503
FROM THE ‘CATHOLICON’ OF J. WOLFF, 1503
FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED ‘PROPRIETAIRE’
FROM ‘AUREUM OPUS’
FROM ‘PLUSIEURS GENTILLESSES’ ETC.
FROM MAGNINI’S ‘REGIMEN SANITATIS,’ BY FRADIN
INITIALS BY SACCON
INITIALS BY BLANCHARD AND OTHER PRINTERS
CHILDREN’S ALPHABET BY FRADIN
FROM WORKS OF ST. AMBROSE
PORTRAIT OF ERASMUS
FROM A LYONS BIBLE
FROM THE ‘BIBLIA CUM SUMMARIIS CONCORDANTIIS,’ ETC., BY JOHN MOYLIN
FROM THE ‘BIBLIA CUM SUMMARIIS CONCORDANTIIS,’ ETC., BY JOHN MOYLIN
FROM THE ‘BIBLIA CUM SUMMARIIS CONCORDANTIIS’
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
FROM THE ‘CATALOGUS SANCTORUM’ OF SACCON
INITIALS OF SACCON
FROM A ‘MORALE REDUCTORIUM PETRI BERTHORII’
LETTER USED BY JACQUES MODERNES
ALPHABET OF PHILOSOPHERS
FROM AN ALPHABET OF PHILOSOPHERS
MYTHOLOGICAL INITIALS
MYTHOLOGICAL LETTERS OF JACOPO FABIO
PARIS
FROM THE ‘VIES DES ANCIENS SAINCTZ PÈRES’ OF DUPRÉ
CALLIGRAPHIC ALPHABET OF VÉRARD
FROM THE ‘NEF DE SANTÉ’ OF TREPPEREL
INITIALS IN BOOKS BY BOCARD
INITIALS IN BOOKS PRINTED BY REMBOLT AND GERING
INITIALS IN BOOKS PRINTED BY REMBOLT AND GERING
INITIALS IN BOOKS PRINTED BY REMBOLT AND GERING
FROM THE HISTORY OF DENMARK BY SAXO GRAMMATICUS
INITIALS USED IN THE ‘JARDIN DE SANTÉ’ BY TREPPEREL
FROM THE ARISTOTLE OF H. ESTIENNE
FROM THE ‘MISSALE PARISIENSE’ BY WOLFGANG HOPYL
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
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’