6058A

Decorated Initial C

Artist: Workshop of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
Title: Decorated Initial C (White Roman initial over a stork with a snake in its beak).
Date: 1565
Medium: Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). 60mm x 55mm each. With partial illumination. Documented in the Missale Divinorum […] Ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: apud Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 (p. 309 of the HathiTrust digitalization).
Photo Source: Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla / Open Library. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the image of the impression in 6058B.
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Item: 6058A