6051A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshops of Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558) and Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
- Title
- Decorated Initials (White Roman letters with black striations over black floral decorations over white backgrounds)
- Date
- 1555
- Medium
- Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). 45mm x 45mm each. Documented in the following works: Pedro Hermosilla, Exactissima ac brevis logicalium terminorum ratio. Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letters M, Q (shown here)] — Domingo de Valtanás OP, Paradoxas y sentencias escogidas[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1558 [Letter E] — Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V (all but Q shown here)] — Fray Philippe de Sosa, Libro […] de la excelencia del Sancto Evangelio[.] Sevilla: en Casa de Iuan Gutierrez, 1569 [1570] [Letters Q, Y (shown here), et al.] — Luis Mexía Ponce de León, Laconismus. Sevilla: Juan Rodríguez, 1569 [Letter L].
- Photo Source
- Biblioteca Provincial y Universitaria de Sevilla || Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá / Hathi Trust Digital Library. Reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6051B, but not reproduced in actual size.
- Item
- 6051A
