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16th Century a-vous Alphabet artist back-grounds BADGE BENEDICTIONALE blue BRANCH AND RIBAND Brit Mus British Museum burnished gold CASIBUS CONSCIENTIĘ CATHEDRAL AT LUBECK character chiefly CHURCH OF ST COPY COVERS WITH MONOGRAMS Date about 1480 delicate devices Durham Book EARLY PRINTED BOOKS EMBROIDERED ALTAR CLOTH employed ENGRAVING ON WOOD executed fifteenth flowers foliage FRANCESCO SFORZA GOLDEN BIBLE GROTESQUE LETTERS Hanrott heightened with gold HENRY III HENRY SHAW highly finished Holbein HYSTOIRE DE PERCEVAL I. C. VII illuminated MSS initial letters inscriptions interlace ITALIAN ILLUMINATIONS JOSEPHUS LETTERS FROM EARLY Lucas Van Leyden manuscripts MISSALE TRAIJECTENSE MONOGRAMS AND MOTTO MONUMENT OF HENRY MONUMENT OF RICHARD MONUMENTAL BRASSES niellos ornaments and letters Painters PERCEVAL LE GALLOYS period PISANI ORD plate is taken PRĘDIC PRINTED AT AUGSBURG purple vellum RIBAND LETTERS RICHARD II ROUEN ROYAL rubricate their MSS scroll SFORZIADA sixteenth century SOEST specimens style volume WESTMINSTER ABBEY written in silver X Y Z