Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 142
79. IRON STAMP. BYZANTINE. … 8o. ENAMELLED BRONZE PENDANT. VIII. CONJOINED LETTERS. We are to a great extent debarred from the useof contractions, which, obvious as they must havebeen to monkish readers, to whom mediaevalwriting was addressed, are enough to scare amodern one from the very attempt to decipherold manuscripts…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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