![[picture: Front Cover]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/00-frontcover-q75-500x306.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Title: Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval
City: London
Date: 1879
Total items: 70
Scans from The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval collected and engraved by Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814 – 1862); London, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1879
If anyone is interested, I’ll try and do some better scans of the alphabets and examples of calligraphy and calligraphic initials in this book.
(Note: Mediæval is the older British English spelling of Mediaeval, or Medieval).
The full title page is transcribed alongside its image. This is an oblong octavo with alphabets printed in various colours including red, green and brown.
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![[picture: 53.2.---IHS Monogram]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/53-Monograms,Crosses-etc.-img02-IHS-q75-466x449.jpg "[picture: 53.2.---IHS Monogram]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``C'' from 16th Century]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/051-16th-Century-letter-c-q97-468x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``C'' from 16th Century]")
![[picture: 53.21.---Decorative Cross]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/53-Monograms,Crosses-etc.-img21-wacky-cross-q75-454x500.jpg "[picture: 53.21.---Decorative Cross]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``K'' from 16th Century]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/051-16th-Century-letter-k-q85-468x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``K'' from 16th Century]")
![[picture: 53.30.---iris or square-ended clover decoration]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/53-Monograms-Crosses-etc.-img30-square-ended-clover-q75-513x498.jpg "[picture: 53.30.---iris or square-ended clover decoration]")
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