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Letter Y from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter Y taken from Fig. 2.

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Added: 2006-03-23

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Historiated decorative initial capital letter Y in BlueItalian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Letter “Y” from Valerio Spada’s historiated alphabet print from 1659. I have coloured the letter itself in blue; you could easily change the blue to something else of course.

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Added: 2011-05-31

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Calligraphic letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1.

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Added: 2003-05-26

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Decorative initial letter “Y” from 16th CenturyOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This ornamental capital “y” in white on black is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial. It is taken from a sixteenth-century alphabet in white on black. a b c d e [...]

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Added: 2021-09-24

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Decorative initial letter “Y” from 16th CenturyOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This capital letter “Y” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It includes a juggling squirrel (I think) and [...]

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Added: 2009-12-10

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62y.—Initial capital letter “Y” from Dance of Death Alphabet.Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “Y”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. In the drop cap Y, Death is about to take a baby from its crib while the terrified m [...]

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Added: 2020-07-29

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clipart: initial letter Y from beginning of the 16th CenturyAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

Wood cut of a decorated initial letter “Y” (e.g. for a drop cap or ornamental capital letter), from the beginning of the 16th Century. There is a calligraphic capital “Y” in an Uncial form, with inter [...]

Keywords: lettery, initials, calligraphy, floriated initials, criblé, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-15

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Letters U V W X Y and Z from English gothic Letters, 15th CenturyLetters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Black-letter (Old English) inital letters “U” “V” “W” “X” “Y” and “Z” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century. It is possible that the author of the modern (1921) book added the J, the U and possibl [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, blackletter, letteru, letterv, letterw, letterx, lettery, letterz, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-28

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Calligraphic letter “Y” in 15th century gothic styleLetters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Black-letter (Old English) letter “Y” from English gothic Letters, 15th Century.

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Added: 2013-12-31

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