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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): seeoverview pagefor details.

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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): seeoverview pagefor 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): seeoverview pagefor 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.

Seethe letter Xfor 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 withdrolleries, 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, o [...]

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.

Seethe letter Xfor 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 M [...]

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; seethe letter Xfor more info [...]

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; seethe letter Xfor 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.Se [...]

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, calligraphy letterj, 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. 1 The 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 overview The 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 th [...]

Keywords: alphabets, colour, calligraphy, lettering, initials

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Added: 2014-02-08

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Plate 43.—XIV. Century No. 1 The 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 availabl [...]

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. 1 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

SeeXIV. Century No. 1for 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 ind [...]

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)

SeeXIV. Century No. 1for 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)

SeeXIV. Century No. 1for 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 ind [...]

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. 1 The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Calligraphic letter A fromXIV. 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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