Items matching alphabets taken from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

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Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.

There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).

Lower row of lower-case (miniscule) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.

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The small (miniscule) letters from p to z; strictly speaking these are not to be called “lower case” since they are for writing and not printing, but it is a distinction no longer widely followed. See [...]

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Plate 65.—Fourteenth Century No. 23.

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XVI. CENTURY, No. 23. Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, and 14, from Lans. 463; Nos. 3, 5, and 6, from Cott. Lib. B VIII. and Nos. 8, 10, 11, and 12, from Add. 12,009. Not a complete alphabet, but some very bea [...]

Keywords: initials, colour, typography, alphabets

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Plate 74.—Fifteenth Century No. 4 (two of 2)

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“[...] a series of bold initials from detached fragments in the South Kensington Museum.” (p. 103) I split this plate into two so as to be able to show a higher-resolution version of the image. I hav [...]

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Plate 71.—Fifteenth century No. 1b.

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“A series of bold initials from detached fragments in the South Kensington Museum.” (p. 103) I split this up into two separate images to make it easier to manage; this is the second. The first is 71- [...]

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Plate 93.—Sixteenth Century No. 5

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Not a complete alphabet, and with an odd “O” but still an interesting set of decorative initials, with red letters on a black and white background.

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G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.

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See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. I have also made these letters available as [...]

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G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.

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XIV. Century No. 1

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(14th Century) Gives us two well-marked alphabets, selected to give a clear idea of the usual writing of this period. I have also made the two alphabets and the individual red majiscule letters availa [...]

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Plate 71.—Fifteenth Century No. 1a.

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“A series of bold initials from detached fragments in the South Kensington Museum.” (p. 103) I split this up into two separate images to make it easier to manage; the second is 71-Fifteenth-Century-1b [...]

Keywords: initials, colour, lettering, typography, alphabets

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Top row of miniscule (lower-case) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.

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See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards.

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