#decorative initial

[lindseyhook]

My friend @greetings_q had this awesome late 19th century (I think?) book with him when we grabbed drinks a few nights ago. I was careful not to spill my beer on it, but had to grab pics of these beautiful drop caps 😍

[lindseyhook]

A few more drop caps 😊

[lindseyhook]

A few more drop caps 😊

[cantusilluminatus]

15th century leaf and its reverse from a gradual from the Netherlands. 

Decoration: Decorative initials, height of text plus staff: one initial in red embellished with brown filigree pen work filled in with green, pen flourishes extending into the lateral margin; other initials in blue, red, or black with pen flourishes.

Notes: On recto, some text cancelled and rewritten in later humanist miniscule; on verso outside lateral margin in red: .lvii. Latin

Source: Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Special Collections,  PITT MS 3:C

[uispeccoll]

Marchiò, Vincenzo. Il forestiere informato delle cose di Lucca ... --    Lucca :   Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli,   1721. DG975.L81  M3   

[artofthedarkages]

5v, Gospels, Cotton MS Nero D IV, British Library