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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 6): see overview page for details.

Keywords: colour, borders, ornaments, decorative elements

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Added: 2005-12-09

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 7): see overview page for details.

Keywords: colour, borders, ornaments, decorative elements

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Added: 2005-12-09

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 8): see overview page for details.

Keywords: colour, borders, ornaments, decorative elements

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Added: 2005-12-09

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Decorative initial letter “A” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This decorative capital letter A features Celtic knotwork, red, green and blue, with a peach fill.

See the letter X for more information.

Keywords: lettera, initials, calligraphy, blue, yellow, green, red, colour

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Added: 2013-02-07

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Decorative initial letter “E” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A letter E in a late uncial tradition, complete with drolleries, or humorous creatures, in the vines in the counters, the spaces nside the letter. This E is in red, with a peach light orange filling, [...]

Keywords: lettere, initials, calligraphy, drolleries, blue, yellow, red, green, colour

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Added: 2012-12-14

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Decorative initial letter “J” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This decorative capital letter J could be used for either “I” or “J”—in either case, with the tail probably going off into the margin.

See the letter X for more information.

Keywords: letterj, initials, calligraphy, red, yellow, blue, colour

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Added: 2012-12-13

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Decorative initial letter “Q” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A beautiful rich red letter Q on a deep blue, red and green background, with a delicate peach fill. This is reproduced (in the book) from an 11th century hand-illuminated manuscript. From the British [...]

Keywords: letterq, initials, calligraphy, blue, red, green, yellow, colour

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Added: 2013-02-06

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Decorative initial letter “X” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A beautiful rich red letter X on a deep blue background, with a delicate peach fill. This is reproduced (in the book) from an 11th century hand-illuminated manuscript, along with comments that suggest [...]

Keywords: letterx, initials, calligraphy, blue, yellow, red, colour

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Added: 2012-12-10

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Decorative initial letter “J” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This decorative capital letter J features Celtic knotwork, with vine-leaves and knots in the tail, and could be used for either “I” or “J”—in either case, with the tail probably going off into the mar [...]

Keywords: letterj, initials, calligraphy, celtic knotwork, red, yellow, blue, colour

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Added: 2013-02-07

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Decorative initial letter “D” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This decorative capital letter D features Celtic knotwork, vine-leaves and knots, red blue and green colours, and white dots perhaps representing stars; it was a drop cap; see the letter X for more in [...]

Keywords: letterd, initials, calligraphy, celtic knotwork, blue, yellow, red, green, colour

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Added: 2013-06-11

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Decorative initial letter “S” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This decorative capital letter S features vine-leaves and knots, red blue and green colours, and white dots perhaps representing stars; it was a drop cap; see the letter X for more information.

Keywords: letters, initials, calligraphy, blue, red, yellow, colour

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Added: 2013-10-12

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Decorative initial letter “U” or “V” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A deep blue with a red and green background and heavy patterning around this Uncial letter U, which has a head like a creature and vines growing inside it, one of which appears to have a cat’s head. S [...]

Keywords: letteru, initials, calligraphy, blue, red, green, yellow, colour

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Added: 2012-12-12

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Decorative initial letter “J” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A deep blue with a red and green background and heavy patterning around this Uncial letter J, whose tail is made of a dragon biting the lower corner of the vertical stem of the letter. Note that it wo [...]

Keywords: letterj, initials, calligraphyletterj, blue, red, yellow, green, dragons, mythical creatures, historiated initials, colour

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Added: 2014-08-05

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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 [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, alphabets, writing, lettering, colour

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Added: 2011-02-20

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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 [...]

Keywords: alphabets, colour, calligraphy, lettering, initials

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Added: 2014-02-08

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Plate 43.—XIV. Century No. 1The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

(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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Added: 2004-08-01

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Top row of letters from XIV. Century No. 1The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. I have also made these letters available as [...]

Keywords: lettering, calligraphy, alphabets, colour

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Added: 2007-02-16

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Top row of miniscule (lower-case) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards.

Keywords: alphabets, lettering, colour

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Added: 2007-02-16

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G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. I have also made these letters available as [...]

Keywords: alphabets, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2007-02-16

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

Calligraphic letter A from XIV. Century No. 1.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

Keywords: lettera, initials, calligraphy, red, colour

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Added: 2003-05-26

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