Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 79
eads of three of its defenders, comes from anedition of the Legendario de Sancti of Jacobus de Voragine,printed by Nicolo h Domenico dal Gesu. We are almostsure, however, that we have met with it in an earlier missal, 62 and it was subsequently used in at least one impression ofLyons. The remaining… … Rome E have alluded in the preceding chapterto the paucity of woodcut initials inearly works printed at Rome, and it iswell known that the opinions of theclergy were divided with respect to thepropriety of adding decorative em-bellishments to books. Some churchdignitaries considered it a pious…
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