The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Medieval, from the Eighth Century

With Numerals, including Gothic; Church Text, Large and Small; German Arabesque; Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c.

This edition features

• illustrations

• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS

th Century. Vatican

8th Century. British Museum

8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon

9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey

From MS. Library of Minerva, Rome

10th Century. British Museum

11th Century and Numerals

12th Century. From the Mazarin Bible

12th Century. Two small. British Museum

12th Century. British Museum

12th Century. Bodleian Library

13th Century. Henry III. Westminster Abbey

13th Century. From Latin MS

13th Century. MS

14th Century. Date about 1340

14th Century. British Museum

14th Century. Illuminated MS

14th Century. Richard II. 1400. Westminster Abbey

14th Century. Richard II. 1400. Small. Westminster Abbey

14th Century. British Museum

14th Century. From MS. Munich

14th and 15th Centuries. Two Small. British Museum

1475. British Museum

1480. British Museum

1490. British Museum

Henry VII. Westminster Abbey

15th and 16th Centuries. German

15th and 16th Centuries. German. Small

15th and 16th Centuries. Ornamental Ribbon

16th Century. Henry VIII. MS

16th Century. From Italian MS

16th Century. From Albert Durer's Prayer Book. Large

16th Century. Albert Durer's Prayer Book

16th Century. Vatican

16th Century. Gothic. MS

16th Century. Gothic

16th Century. Gothic. MS

16th Century. Large, Small, and Numerals. French. MS

17th Century. MS

17th Century. Church Text. MS

German Arabesque

German Arabesque. Small

Metal Ornamental

Initials

Initials

15th Century

Initials

Numerals

Numerals

16th Century

16th Century

16th Century. From Wood Engravings

Monograms, Crosses, &c.