Medieval initials

Initials – capital letters within manuscripts’ texts – are key venues for decoration, aides in navigating the text, and veritable works of art.

Based on early jewish book illustrations

Capital L

L c comme Libération, L ça ressemble aussi à Lettre, mais aussi livre, mais L c'est surtout La lettre... L comme Léa :) <3

Gospel book, Austria, probably in the monastery of Seitenstetten, between 1225 and 1275

Red wyvern with green wings in initial A(ccipiat nos misericordia tua domine) for Collect at end of Psalm 78(79). (MS. Ashmole 1525)

Dragon initial from a Book of Hours made in the Netherlands or Germany, c.1463-76 (source).

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Page from a Tudor pattern book, (ca. 1520) human alphabet

32 p. of advertisements at the end