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6064B

Decorated Initials

Decorated Initials

6064B
Artist
Workshops of Juan Pablos and Pedro Ocharte (but only as printers?)
Title
Decorated Initials (White Gothic letters interlaced with white tendrils over black backgrounds)
Date
1559-1570
Medium
Woodcut or woodcut printing. Measurements? Documented in the following works: Maturino Gilberti, Dialogo de doctrina christiana en lengua de Mechuacan. Ciudad de México: Juan Pablos Bressano, 1559 [Letters A, C, D, H, N (all shown here)] Benito Fernández, Doctrina christiana en lengua mixteca. Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1567 [Letters D, S] Francisco Bravo, Opera Medicinalia. Ciudad de Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1570 [Letters F, S (both shown here)]. Grañén Porrúa 2010, 144 publishes a bill of sale (carta de venta) signed in Lima on December 3, 1562 that bears an impression of the letter S of this font.
Location
Antiguas Imprentas de Juan Pablos and Pedro Ocharte.
Photo Source
John Carter Brown Library / HathiTrust Digital Library || Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Oaxaca / HathiTrust Digital Library || Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6064A.
Correspondence Credit
Yhmoff Cabrera 1990, 33 for letters A, D, H, N. Grañén Porrúa 2010, 144 and Almerindo Ojeda for letter S.
Note
Line-by-line similarities between the images of 6064A and 6064B suggest that all of these letters were printed from one and the same set of types. The Ungut and Polono types could have reached Pablos via Jacobo Cromberger, who married Ungut's widow.
Item
6064B
Correspondences
Archive: 6064A/6064B
Archive: 6064A/6064B
Archive: 6064A/6064B
6064A/6064B