6054A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshops of Juan de León (active between 1545 and 1555), Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558), and Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572).
- Title
- Decorated Intials (White Roman initials over fantastic-creature decorations).
- Date
- 1545
- Medium
- Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). Measurements? Documented in the following works: Pedro Mexía, Historia Imperial y Cesárea[.] Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letters C, D1, H, I, M, R (shown here)] — Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Perú[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1553 [Letters C, D1, M (shown here), P, V (shown here)] — Ordenanzas reales para la Casa de Contratación de Sevilla[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montes de Oca, 1553 [Letters P, D1] — Miguel de Fuenllana, Libro de musica para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1554 [Letters D1, D2 (both shown here), and P] — Pedro Hermosilla, Exactissima ac brevis logicalium terminorum ratio. Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letters C, D1, I (shown here), H, P] — Hyeronymo Chavez, Chronographia[.] Sevilla: Martín Montesdoca, 1558 [Letters C, D1, M, P, Q (shown here)] — Domingo de Valtanás OP, Segunda parte de la exposición de los Evangelios[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1558 [Letter V] — San Buenaventura, Vidas de San Francisco y Santa Clara. Sevilla: en casa de Juan Gutiérrez impressor de libros en la calde [sic] Genova, 1560 [Letters D1, N, P (all three shown here)] — Missale Divinorum […] ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letter H (shown here)].
- Photo Source
- Universidad de Valladolid / UVaDOC || National Library of Austria / Google Books || Stanford University / Google Books || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || Libreria del Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá and Universidad de Sevilla / HathiTrust Digital Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6054B.
- Item
- 6054A
