6062A

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 letters over floral 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 A, H, L, M, S] — Hieronymo de Chaves, Tractado de la sphera que compuso […] Ioannes de Sacrobusto. Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 [Letters L, M, S] — Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Perú[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1553 [Letters A, E, H, L, M, Q, S (all shown here) — Miguel de Fuenllana, Libro de Música para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1554 [Letters H, S] — Pedro Hermosilla, Exactissima ac brevis logicalium terminorum ratio. Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letter A] — Petro Fermosello, In universam Fratris Francisci Titelmani[.] Sevilla: Martín de Montesdoca, 1555 [Letters G (shown here), M, Q] — 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 E] — Missale Divinorum […] ecclesie Hispalensis[.] Sevilla: Ioa[n]nem Gotherium, 1565 [Letters G, H, L, S].
Photo Source: Universidad de Valladolid / UVaDOC || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || Biblioteca Nacional de Chile / Memoria Chilena || Stanford University / Google Books || Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla || Internet Archive; Biblioteca Provincial y Universitaria de Sevilla / Hathi Trust Digital Library || Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6062B.
Item: 6062A

Correspondences: Archive: 6062A/6062B; Archive: 6062A/6062B; Archive: 6062A/6062B; 6062A/6062B