Items matching music taken from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

music: sheet music, scores, and also the playing of music

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Engravings from “Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance” (Book-Ornament of the Renaissance) by A. F. Butsch, Leipzig, 1878. Alfred Butsch was a famous bookseller and a collecter of antiquarian books; the engraved plates in the book reproduce illustrations from early printed books.

I bought my copy of this book (actually Volume II hasn’t arrive yet!) from a bookseller in Germany; there is also a fac simile by Dover, but the reproduction is not of the highest quality, so these images are better, if very incomplete.

62a.—Initial capital letter “A” from Dance of Death Alphabet

Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878)

This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also p [...]

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Added: 2009-03-07

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

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