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Items matching initials taken from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860) (results page 5)

initials: ornamental letters, usually capital, used for the first letter of a chapter or section or to draw the reader's attention, also called decorative initials or drop caps (dropped capitals).
In hand-written manuscripts a decorated initial is often a littera notabilior, a Latin phrase meaning a more noticeable letter.
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Letter A from Fifteenth Century No. 4
Plate 74.—Fifteenth Century No. 4 (two of 2)
Plate 93.—Sixteenth Century No. 5
Plate 71.—Fifteenth Century No. 1a.
Plate 71.—Fifteenth century No. 1b.
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