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Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes anornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images ingreen-brown(most like the original),black(easiest to re-use) a [...]

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on thetitle page.

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Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornamental book cover, with its baroque border, is marked Munich (München) 1922; presumably the book was either rebound or reissued in 1922.

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (green/brown version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, mythical creatures, flowers, colour

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (red version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, flowers, colour

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Chapter head: cherubs playing games Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book.

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Antique/Vintage Chain-link Border (coloured) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This full-page border is made up of circles linked together like a chain, with a woodcut engraved shaded background. I used orange red and black; theoriginal woodcutis printed in plain black, with no [...]

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Foliated chapter-head with geometric border Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Egyptian-inspired geometric border containing a fleur-de-lys in a circle between two vine branches. It was at the head of the first index page. The border style was popular in the nineteenth centur [...]

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Decorative initial letter I Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A decorative initial capital letter “I” used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. This was probably cut into the side of a block of wood, which might explain why the letter is not quite vertical; [...]

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Plate 3, Page with foliated border from 1478 Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A reproduction of a page from a book printed at the office of Erhart Ratdolt in Venice in 1478,Pomponii Melle Cosographie de situ orbis liber primis.The German caption in the 1878 book containing this [...]

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Full-page foliated border from 1478. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornate foliated border is festive (because I coloured it red) and swirly. It’s from the title page of a 1478 book, over 500 years old.See thefull title page.Note that one side of the border is wi [...]

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Foliated Decorative Capital Letter “O” Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This floriated letter “O” was used as an initial capital (a drop cap) on a title page insidethis ornate mediæval border. The letter has an unusual spiral line round it, vines, leaves, and a strongly a [...]

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Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornate rococo border surrounded the title of a 1516 book printed in Germany:Sassenspegel: mit velen nyen Addicien san dem Leenrechte vnde Richtstige; Ad lectorem Saphicum cum Gliconico, Saxonum d [...]

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Eros (Cherub with Bow) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Eros, or cherub with a bow, fromthis ornate Renaissance border, a woodcut title page of a 1516 book.

This cutout cherub illustration is white on a black background.

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Plate 62, Dance of Death Alphabet (overview) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Plate 62 is Holbein’sDance of Deathalphabet. I am making the individual letters available at higher resolution; this image is just a place to put the notes and to let you get a feel for the whole alp [...]

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

This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also p [...]

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

This decorative initial letter “B”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features two skeletons, or death-figures, a dog and a pope. Some commentators say [...]

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

This decorative initial letter “C”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. it features an emperor in the clutches of two skeletons, or Deaths, one of whom he r [...]

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

This decorative initial letter “D”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features a king thrown to the ground and forcibly dragged away by two skeletons, [...]

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