| Image title: | Osanna in Excelsis |
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| Source: | Alighieri, Dante: “La Vita Nuova (The New Life)” (1910) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | christmas, initials, angels, lettering, calligraphy, colour |
| 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. |
The phrase, Osanna in Excelsis (moer commonly written in English, Hosanna in Excelsis) in the form of a giant “E” with a decorative initial letter “O” containing angels, and a smaller E-within-the-e in a Mediaeval Uncial style. Printed in dark gold-coloured ink (not actually metallic) and black. |
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| Filename: | 0085-Osanna-in-Excelsis-q85-364x500.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/u/0085-Osanna-in-Excelsis-q85-364x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/u/pages/0085-Osanna-in-Excelsis/ |
| Stock image: | Buy from: alamy.com |
| Artist: | Evelyn Paul (1870 – 1945) |
| Scanner dpi: | 1800 |
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