Items matching alphabets taken from Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

alphabets: scripts for writing various languages; sample writing, calligraphic or otherwise

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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.

I found an online copy of a similar book by the same author at illuminated-books.com but it is for non-commercial use only.

01. 8th Century. Vatican.

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Keywords: initials, alphabets

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52.—16th Century from Wood Engravings

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This is not a good scan; I plan to replace it with one made at a higher resolution. It is an alphabet with some ornate decoration and flourishes.

Keywords: alphabets, calligraphy, lettering

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Added: 2006-11-29

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07. 7.—11th Century and Numerals

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

The odd title really means that this image is a plate made from Eleventh Century AD initial letters; the “numerals” are actually Roman numbers done as ligatures.

Keywords: initials, alphabets, typography

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51.—16th Century

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A set of decorative initial letters from the sixteenth century; it is missing “J” “O” “W” “X” and “Z” so that there are only 21 letters here, although I have made a fake “J.” They have an appealing pl [...]

Keywords: alphabets, calligraphy, mythical creatures, initials

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Added: 2007-09-06

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3. 8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon.

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Calligraphy from England in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, colour

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Added: 2006-03-29

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34. 34.—16th Century. Vatican.

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Alphabet from a 16th Century manuscript in the Vatical Library. The letters are A B C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T Y, so that J, V, Y and Z are lacking. For J one would use J at that time, and U fo [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, colour, typography

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2. 8th Century.

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

British Museum.

Calligraphy from an 8th Century manuscript, presumably Anglo-Saxon.

Original scanned at 1200 dpi on an Epson E10000 professional scanner.

Keywords: initials, alphabets, colour

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

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

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 [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, fonts, typography

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Added: 2006-06-03

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50.—16th Century

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This is not a good scan; I plan to replace it with one made at a higher resolution. Decorative initials suitable for use as drop caps or initial caps. They were printed in light brown in the book, b [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, calligraphy

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Added: 2006-12-05

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