6072B

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte
Title: Decorated Initials (White Roman Initials on historiated backgrounds based on the Old Testament).
Date: 1563-1570
Medium: Woodcut, approx. 50mm x 50mm. Vasco de Puga, Provisiones, cedulas, instrucciones para […] La Nueva España. Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1563 [Letters: I, L, N, S (all four shown here)] — Fray Domingo de la Anunciación OP, Doctrina cristiana […] por via de diálogo […] en lengua castellana y mexicana. Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1565 [Letter E] — Manuale sacramentorum secundum usum Ecclesiae Mexicanae. Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1568 [Letters: A, B, D, E, H, M, P, Q, R, T (all ten shown here)] — Francisco Bravo. Opera Medicinalia. Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1570 [Letter C (shown here)] — Bartolomé Ledesma, Si de protegendis (Bula papal de Pio V). Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1571 [Letter S].
Location: Antigua imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México
Photo Source: John Carter Brown Library, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, and Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua. All three via Rodríguez Domínguez 2020. Not reproduced at scale.
Correspondence Credit: Yhmoff 1987 sourced this set to Pedro Irurozqui OP, Series totius historiae sacri evangelii. Estella: Adrian de Amberes (para Miguel Çapila), 1557. Rodríguez Domínguez 2020 traces it to earlier works published (a) in Alcalá de Henares by Juan de Brocar in 1551, and (b) in Zaragoza by Esteban de Nájera (at the expense of a costa de Miguel Çapila) in 1555.
Item: 6072B

Correspondences: Archive: 6072A/6072B; Archive: 6072A/6072B; 6072A/6072B