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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter V from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterV-q75-209x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter V from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter V from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter V from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter W from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterW-q75-257x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter W from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter W from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter W from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterY-q75-160x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter Y from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-01-letterO-q85-241x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from Plate 65]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from Plate 65
A detail from Plate 65 with just the decorative initial letter O. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-02-M-q85-259x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65]")
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65
A calligraphic decorative letter “M” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter A from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-03-A-q90-237x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter A from Plate 65]")
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter A from Plate 65
A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “A” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. I’ve made lots of sizes to make it easier for you to use this on a Web page as an initial cap (it won’t be so good as a drop cap, although you [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter D from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-04-D-46x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter D from Plate 65]"){kind=small}
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter D from Plate 65
A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “D” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. I’ve made fewer sizes than usual because if you want to use this on a Web page you will probably end up splitting it (slicing it) into several smaller images yourself, to work around [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-05-UV-q90-257x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65]")
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65
A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “U” or “V” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-07-IJ-25x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65]"){kind=small}
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65
A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “I” or “J” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-08-L-q100-103x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from Plate 65]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from Plate 65
A detail from Plate 65 with just the decorative initial letter L. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Plate 65.---Fourteenth Century No. 23.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-q75-115x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 65.---Fourteenth Century No. 23.]")
