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half-title Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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1.—Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Constructed capitals: diagram showing how to draw letters with rulers and compasses against a grid. “An excellent model for constructing the Roman capitals in a standard form will be found in the beau [...]

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2. 8th Century. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

British Museum.

Calligraphy from an 8th Century manuscript, presumably Anglo-Saxon.

Original scanned at 1200 dpi on an Epson E10000 professional scanner.

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2.—Alphabet After Serlio. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

See the notes for Fig. 1 for this figure. I have also split out the individual letters.

The alphabet is (by modern standards) incomplete; for J and U you will have to use I and V, and for W use VV.

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3.—Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

“Width proportions, which may be found useful in laying out lettering for lines of a given length, are shown in [Fig. 3] in a more modern style of the Roman capital. In the classic Roman letter the cr [...]

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3. 8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Calligraphy from England in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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4.—9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Today called Battle Abbey. Someone made a font from a Dover reprint of this alphabet—Rob Anderson, I think. There is no coyright statement on the font, which was probably originally a PostScript Type [...]

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07. 7.—11th Century and Numerals Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

The odd title really means that this image is a plate made from Eleventh Century AD initial letters; the “numerals” are actually Roman numbers done as ligatures.

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01. 8th Century. Vatican. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

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Valerio Spada: Historiated Alphabet, 1656 – 1659 [A-M] Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Valerio Spada was a contemporary of Stefano della Bella. This Historiated Alphabet—that is, this set of decorated initials with scenes in them – features scenes from seventeenth century Italy, mostly [...]

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Valerio Spada: Historiated Alphabet, 1656 – 1659 [N-Z] Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Valerio Spada was a contemporary of Stefano della Bella. This Historiated Alphabet—that is, this set of decorated initials with scenes in them – features scenes from seventeenth century Italy, mostly [...]

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title page Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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Added: 2000-09-18

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