The Hand Book of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices

16th Century Alphabet Art of Engraving artist back-grounds Badge BENEDICTIONALE Bible blue Brit Mus British Museum burnished gold CATHEDRAL AT LUBECK character chiefly composed copy COVERS WITH MONOGRAMS Date decorative delicate devices drawing Durham Book EARLY ENGRAVINGS early printed Books eighth elegant EMBROIDERED ALTAR CLOTH employed ENGRAVING ON WOOD executed exercise their skill fifteenth fifteenth century figures Flemish flowers foliage folio furnish gold ground graceful GROTESQUE LETTERS heightened with gold Henry III highly finished Holbein HYSTOIRE DE PERCEVAL illuminated MSS initial letters inscriptions ITALIAN ILLUMINATIONS Latin MSS libraries Lucas Van Leyden manuscripts Missale Traijectense MONOGRAMS AND MOTTO Monument of Henry MONUMENT OF RICHARD MONUMENTAL BRASSES niellos ornaments and letters Painters Papyri period PISANI ORD plate is taken Pliny PR^EDIC purple vellum Riband Letters rose colour Rouen scroll seems Sforza SFORZIADA shapes of letters sixteenth century SOEST specimens stained style taste various tints volume WESTMINSTER ABBEY written in silver