Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 29
ent in Mayencebooks, but towards 1520 John, the grandson of the first PeterScheffer, has several alphabets, one of very large letters witharabescjues of flowers, foliage, and birds, used first in hisLivy of 1518, pul:)lishcd under the patronage of Brandeburg,Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mayence.… … AUGSBURG ROM what has been already said, it seemsevident that the aim of the first printerswas to produce by the new art as perfectas possible an imitation of the manu-script. Scheffer printed books with orna-mental letters in the manuscript style.The other printers left them to be addedby hand,…
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