6057A

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshops of ¿Gaspar Zapata (active in 1544)?, 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: 1544-1554
Medium: Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). Measurements? Documented in the following works: Florian de Ocampo, Los quatro libros primeros de la Cronica General de España. Sevilla: ¿Gaspar Zapata?, 1544 [Letter C] — Pedro Mexía, Historia Imperial y Cesárea[.] Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letters C, F] — Hieronymo de Chaves, Tractado de la esphera que compuso […] Ioannes de Sacrobusto. Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letter C] — Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Perú[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1553 [Letter C (shown here)] — Miguel de Fuenllana, Libro de musica para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra[.] Sevilla: Martin de Montesdoca, 1554 [Letters C, D (shown here), F (shown here), O (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 [Letter F (shown here)].
Photo Source: Austrian National Library / Europeana || Stanford University / Google Books || Universidad de Valladolid / UVaDOC || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || National Library of Austria / Google Books || Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6057B.
Item: 6057A

Correspondences: Archive: 6057A/6057B; Archive: 6057A/6057B; Archive: 6057A/6057B; 6057A/6057B