Early Woodcut Initials: Containing Over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesFirst published in 1908, Jennings collates an extensive compendium of thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
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Page 52 - Primus in Adriaca formis impressit aenis Urbe libros Spira genitus de stirpe Johannes. In reliquis sit quanta vides spes, lector, habenda, Quom labor hie primus calami superaverit artem. MCCCCLXVIII.
Page 5 - of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries are
Page 91 - Santa Fe, has an initial E showing God the Father upholding the Crucified Christ ; the second section sets forth the duty of the King to hear causes two days a week, and begins with an L
Page 57 - sportively taking him up on his back, he would carry him over a wide expanse of sea to the school at Puteoli, and in
Page 91 - must have been designed and executed by clever artists whose work is so fine that the printer in most instances has failed to do justice to it.
Page 91 - pressed by the litigants. Two knights spurring from the different sides of an S head the laws of chivalry; a canonist and his scholars in
Page 91 - A preside over matrimony; money-changers in aD over commerce; while a luckless wretch being hanged in the
Page 28 - either at the end of the fifteenth or at the beginning of the sixteenth century,
Page 93 - un maestro con su discípulo en que están puestas las cinco reglas mas principales de guarismo y otras cosas sotiles y
Page 57 - At whatever hour of the day he might happen to be called by the boy,