- skip - about - login - forum - search

4.—9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey.details

[Picture: 4.---9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS.  Battel Abbey.]
previous image
up
Public Domain Mark Rare and Antiquarian 234x60
Image title: 4.—9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey.
Source: Delamotte, F.: “Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval” (1879)
Place shown: none
Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, fonts, typography, greyscale
Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.
Share/Bookmark Arts Blogs - Blog Top Sites

Today called Battle Abbey. Someone made a font from a Dover reprint of this alphabet—Rob Anderson, I think. There is no coyright statement on the font, which was probably originally a PostScript Type 1 font converted to TrueType. I don’t think the readme in the zip file corresponds to it exactly.

Battel Abbey Font

Filename: 004-9th-Century-q75-500x284.jpg
Scanner dpi: 1200
Comment: Add a link, leave a comment or change keywords

$Id: mkgallery,v 1.69 2010/06/05 03:56:00 lee Exp lee $

Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!