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Items matching animals taken from Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)







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animals: items depicting or describing creatures, whether wild or tame. The animals must be clearly depicted but need not be the main focus of an image or text.

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Some images from Alphabets and Numbers of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw, 1845. I have a fac simile of this out-of-copyright work, and the fac simile is itself out of copyright.

This book is also online (with a much lower-quality scan) at Google Books; if you see a page you would like me to scan from my fac simile copy, let me know. Unfortunately, the colour printing in the fac simile uses the four-colour screening process, so I cannot provide high-resolution scans for some of the colour images, although they will be fine for Web or print use in most cases.

See also Symms on Illuminating for some beautiful colour decorative initials, and Delamotte on Alphabets for some beautiful alphabets.

Badge of Saint Luke

Badge of Saint Luke

Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

A detail from Sacred Monogram and Badges of the Apostles, the badge of St. Luke. He is shown here as a winged ox.

Keywords: symbols, religion, animals

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Added: 2008-08-05

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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