Historiated Initials Gallery
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This 1540 edition of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is printed in the original
PentecostWorkshop of Maître François (François Le Barbier?)Paris, ca. 1475–80Horæ (Book of Hours) fo
A collection of four historiated initials from the mid 16th century that depict nobleman hunting on
Typography TuesdayLast week we presented wood engravings by the English-American artist Nora S.
Woodcut Wednesday: Watch it with that!What would this winged fellow need with a knife? We must assum
This week, we’ll be looking at inhabited, illuminated, decorated, and historiated initials in
These unique initials are among the finest found in our collection. Rather than being printed from w
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