6056A

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshops of ¿Gaspar Zapata (active in 1544)?, Juan de León (active between 1545-1555), Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558), and Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572).
Title: Decorated Initials (White Roman letters with flower bouquet decorations).
Date: 1544-1545
Medium: Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). 25mm. x 25mm. each. Documented in the following works: Juan Vilchez, Bernardina. Sevilla: ¿Gaspar Zapata?, 1544 [Letters C, I, M] — Pedro Mexía, Historia Imperial y Cesárea[.] Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letters A (shown here), B (shown here), C, D (shown here), E, G (shown here), H (shown here), L, M (shown here), N (shown here), P, Q (shown here), S (shown here), T, V (shown here), Y (shown here), Z (shown here)] — Hieronymo de Chaves, Tractado de la esphera que compuso […] Ioannes de Sacrobusto. Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letters A, I, L, P, Q, T] — Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Perú[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1553 [Letters C, E, L, P, T (all but E shown here)] — Miguel de Fuenllana, Libro de musica para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra[.] Sevilla: Martin de Montesdoca, 1554 [Letters, A, B, C, D, E, G, I, L (shown here), M, N, O (shown here) P, Q, S, T, V] — Pedro Hermosilla, Exactissima ac brevis logicalium terminorum ratio. Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letter T] — Petro Fermsosello, In universam Fratris Francisci Titelmani[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letter F (shown here)] — 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 E (shown here), L] — Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters C, I (shown here)].
Photo Source: Google Books || Universidad de Valladolid / UVaDOC || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || National Library of Austria / Google Books || Stanford University / Google Books || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla / Internet Archive || Biblioteca Provincial y Universitaria de Sevilla / HathiTrust Digital Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6056B.
Note: P has also been documented in works edited by Francisco Pérez, a publisher active in Seville between 1584 and 1609 (see Eduardo Peñalver Gómez, La imprenta en Sevilla en el siglo XVII, p. 270).
Item: 6056A

Correspondences: Archive: 6056A/6056B; Archive: 6056A/6056B; Archive: 6056A/6056B; 6056A/6056B