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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/tn/00-frontcover-q75-500x306.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Scans from The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval collected and engraved by Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814 – 1862); London, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1879
If anyone is interested, I’ll try and do some better scans of the alphabets and examples of calligraphy and calligraphic initials in this book.
(Note: Mediæval is the older British English spelling of Mediaeval, or Medieval).
The full title page is transcribed alongside its image. This is an oblong octavo with alphabets printed in various colours including red, green and brown.
Title: Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval
City: London
Date: 1879
Total items: 102
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 53.29.---IHS Monogram]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/53-Monograms-Crosses-etc.img29-IHS-monogram-q75-155x200.jpg "[picture: 53.29.---IHS Monogram]")
![[picture: 53.30.---iris or square-ended clover decoration]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/53-Monograms-Crosses-etc.-img30-square-ended-clover-q75-206x200.jpg "[picture: 53.30.---iris or square-ended clover decoration]")
53.30.—iris or square-ended clover decoration
Either three petals and a stamen, like a lilly or iris, or perhaps three leaves, like clover; this is a 19th century redrawing of a mediæval decoration from an illuminated manuscript. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 53.31.---thistle decoration or page element.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/53-Monograms,Crosses-etc.-img31-thistle-q100-187x200.jpg "[picture: 53.31.---thistle decoration or page element.]")
53.31.—thistle decoration or page element.
A small thistle emblem used as a decorative page element or ornament. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 53.32.---Fleur-de-lys]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/53-Monograms,Crosses-etc.-img32-fleur-de-lys-q100-138x200.jpg "[picture: 53.32.---Fleur-de-lys]")
![[picture: 17.---14th Century Illminated MS., Simplified]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/17-14th-Century-Illminated-MS-alphabet-plain-q67-320x200.jpg "[picture: 17.---14th Century Illminated MS., Simplified]")
17.—14th Century Illminated MS., Simplified
This is a simplified version of the fourteenth century alphabet, with the addition of a letter “J” and a slightly modernized letter “F”. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 48.---Numerals.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/48-various-numerals-q67-125x200.jpg "[picture: 48.---Numerals.]")
Some historic numerals from the sixth through to the fourteenth centuries. The four and seven especially have varied in shae significantly. [$]
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![[picture: 53.28.---Trifoliate Calligraphic Ornament]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DelamotteOrnamentalAlphabets/wm/big/53-Monograms,Crosses-etc.-img28-trifolium-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: 53.28.---Trifoliate Calligraphic Ornament]")
