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half-titleOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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01. 8th Century. Vatican.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

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1.—Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross.Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Constructed capitals: diagram showing how to draw letters with rulers and compasses against a grid. “An excellent model for constructing the Roman capitals in a standard form will be found in the beau [...]

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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.

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Theban Alphabet of Petter ApponusCollected Occult Images (1690)

The source of this alphabet is unclear; Agrippa ascribed it to Honorius. It was used, Agrippa wrote, to make seals naming “certain spirits” so that the writing could not be read. I do not know why a s [...]

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2.—Alphabet After Serlio.Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

See the notes for Fig. 1 for this figure. I have also split out the individual letters.

The alphabet is (by modern standards) incomplete; for J and U you will have to use I and V, and for W use VV.

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3.—Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals.Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

“Width proportions, which may be found useful in laying out lettering for lines of a given length, are shown in [Fig. 3] in a more modern style of the Roman capital. In the classic Roman letter the cr [...]

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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.

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The figures of the Divine LettersCollected Occult Images (1690)

The letters, or characters, for the planets, sun, and moon, in astrology or occult magic, are shown here, taken from Agrippa’s three-volume treatise on Magic. The separate groups are available on requ [...]

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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 [...]

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07. 7.—11th Century and NumeralsOrnamental 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.

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Valerio Spada: Historiated Alphabet, 1656 – 1659 [A-M]Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Valerio Spada was a contemporary of Stefano della Bella. This Historiated Alphabet—that is, this set of decorated initials with scenes in them – features scenes from seventeenth century Italy, mostly [...]

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Valerio Spada: Historiated Alphabet, 1656 – 1659 [N-Z]Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Valerio Spada was a contemporary of Stefano della Bella. This Historiated Alphabet—that is, this set of decorated initials with scenes in them – features scenes from seventeenth century Italy, mostly [...]

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17.—14th Century Illuminated MS.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This upper-case alphabet printed in green has thin tendrils intertwining between the letters, so that it is impossible to tell for certain where one letter ends and the next begins.

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title pageOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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28.—XII. Century No. 1The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Almost a complete gothic (blackletter or old english) alphabet; I have supplied some rather grotesque monstrosities for “K” and ”V” at the foot of the page. The description in the book is a little con [...]

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close-up of the engraving on the title pageOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

A dog is laying down under a tree, watching over a flock of grazing sheep, in this 1713 woodcut or wood engraving from the title page. The caption says “EASY NOT IDLE”.

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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 [...]

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Plate 37.—Thirteenth Century No. 1: Alphabet overviewThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is an incomplete alphabet taken from a 13th century manuscript (I don’t know whether the book identifies the manuscript; I’ll look when I get home from this trip to Prague). I have also scanned t [...]

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dedicationOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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