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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).

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 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- [...]

Keywords: initials, colour, lettering, typography, alphabets

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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.

Keywords: initials, colour, typography, alphabets

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Plate 17.—Ninth Century. Nº 5.

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All except Figure 7 are from the Bible of Charles the Bald, and Figure 7 is from the Gospels of Lothaire. [more detail on request] I have broken out the various borders in this image and made them ava [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, typography, ornaments, calligraphy, page images

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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 [...]

Keywords: initials, colour, typography, alphabets, calligraphy

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Plate 71.—Fifteenth Century No. 1a.

The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

“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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