Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 124
enseveral copies, a licence to marry within prohibited degrees.In this document the body of the text is printed in ordinaryblack-letter characters, with blanks for the names of thepersons wishing to contract marriage. Above the text is aline of ornamental bullatic letters, as they are termed,… … CHAPTHR XVIENGLISH INITIALS rni very few exceptions the decorativeand pictorial initials reproduced fromforei^Mi books on the preceding pageshave been chosen from works printedbefore 1525, and in most cases before1500. In Ciermany, Ital)-, !• ranee, andthe Netherlands, schools of cutters…
