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![[picture: book cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/0000-cover-q50-360x500.jpg "[picture: book cover]")
Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
Title: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Date: 1860
Total items: 133
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Blue Floret]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-example-floret-q97-197x200.jpg "[picture: Blue Floret]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter I from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-i-126x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter I from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative initial letter I from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter I from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter U from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterU-q75-174x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter U from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter U from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter U from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Medieval Decorative Initial Capital ``D'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/067-Fourteenth-Century-detail-letter-d-red-blue-q75-199x200.jpg "[picture: Medieval Decorative Initial Capital ``D'']")
Medieval Decorative Initial Capital “D”
This mediaeval calligraphic initial “D” was originally decorated with filligree and gold and had a saint in the middle; the simplified version here is extracted to be more useful. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-07-IJ-25x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65]"){kind=small}
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65
A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “I” or “J” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the [...] [more...] [$]
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