6665A

Decorated Initial D

Artist: Workshop of Juan Varela de Salamanca (active between 1509 and 1539)
Title: Decorated Initial D
Date: 1530
Medium: Woodcut. Published in Incipit Missale fratru[m] praedicatorum[.] Hispali [Sevilla]: in domo Joannis varela Salmanticen[sis], 1530. Apparently published also in the Missale diuinorum secundum consuetudinem alma ecclesiae Hispalen[…]. Sevilla: Excudebat apud inclitam M. Gregorius de Turri [Gregorio de la Torre], 1558, although we have not seen the latter.
Photo Source: Fondos Francisco Javier Cornejo / Biblioteca, Universidad de Sevilla (A Res 11/4/13).
Item: 6665A