Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 37
arch, 1534;Petrarch, 1542, in all of which wc meet with specimens ofthese letters. The Z with a fo.\ trying- to get at the poultry in themarket-womans basket is from the German Cicero. The C(bagpiper) and the N (caricature with big head and smalllegs) and the P with a peacock are from the Magni… … CHAPTER IIIULM AND NUREMBERG lOST writers on early bibliography,amongst others Bodemann and Muther,who both give reproductions of theinitial border at the beginning of theLatin Boccaccio, quote J. Zainer as thefirst printer in Ulm to use woodcutinitials. The date of the Boccaccio is1473. In…
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