6065A
Decorated Initials
Decorated Initials
- Artist
- Workshops of ¿Matthias Crom (active between 1536 and 1546)?, Rycharde Jugge (d. 1577), and Edward Whitechurch (active between 1537 and 1552; d. 1561)
- Title
- Decorated Initials
- Date
- 1537-1552
- Medium
- Woodcut. 17mm x 17mm. Documented in the following works: The Matthew Bible. Antwerp: ¿Matthias Crom? for Richard Grafton and Edward Whitechurch, 1537 [Letters B, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, P, Q, R, V (all thirteen shown here)] — The New Testament[.] Translated by William Tyndale and annotated by Rycharde Jugge. London: Rycharde Jugge, 1522 [Letters A (shown here), T] — Church of England, The Book of Common Prayer. London: Edward Whitechurch, 1552 [Letters B, C (shown here), D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, P, R, T (shown here), V].
- Photo Source
- Bibles Online || Boston Public Library / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6065B.
- Note
- Copies of these letters were used in 1571 at the Officina Plantiniana (cf. Harvard 1974, series 49).
- Item
- 6065A
