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6053A

Decorated Initials

Decorated Initials

6053A
Artist
Workshop of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
Title
Decorated Initials (White Roman intitials over tesellated floral backgrounds).
Date
1560
Medium
Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). Measurements? Documented in the following works: Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters A, B, C, D, E, G, H, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V (all shown here)] — Fray Philippe de Sosa, Libro […] de la excelencia del Sancto Evangelio[.] Sevilla: en Casa de Iuan Gutierrez, 1569 [1570] [Letter C].
Photo Source
Biblioteca Provincial y Universitaria de Sevilla || Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá / HathiTrust Digital Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6053B.
Note
Letters M and Q have been documented in works edited by Juan de León II, a publisher active in Seville between 1585 and 1617 (see Eduardo Peñalver Gómez, La imprenta en Sevilla en el siglo XVII, pp. 577-578).
Item
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