{"id":10152,"date":"2011-10-11T02:54:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2011-10-11T02:54:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:54:22","slug":"early-woodcut-initials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/11\/early-woodcut-initials\/","title":{"rendered":"Early woodcut initials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial1.jpg\" alt=\"initial1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More decorated initials, these being from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/earlywoodcutinit00jennrich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Early Woodcut Initials<\/em><\/a> (1908), a collection by Oscar Jennings of ornamental letters from books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By way of contrast with yesterday&#8217;s examples, not all of these feature the religious or mythological figures one would expect, some show early mathematical and astronomical devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial2.jpg\" alt=\"initial2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial3.jpg\" alt=\"initial3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial4.jpg\" alt=\"initial4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial5.jpg\" alt=\"initial5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial6.jpg\" alt=\"initial6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial7.jpg\" alt=\"initial7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial8.jpg\" alt=\"initial8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/10\/paulinis-mythological-alphabet\/\">Paulini\u2019s mythological alphabet<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/07\/joseph-balthazar-silvestres-alphabet-album\/\">Joseph Balthazar Silvestre\u2019s Alphabet-album<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/06\/johann-theodor-de-brys-neiw-kunstliches-alphabet\/\">Johann Theodor de Bry\u2019s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/23\/the-book-of-ornamental-alphabets\/\">The Book of Ornamental Alphabets<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/17\/paul-francks-calligraphy\/\">Paul Franck\u2019s calligraphy<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/06\/gramato-graphices\/\">Gramato-graphices<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/02\/john-bickhams-fables-and-other-short-poems\/\">John Bickham\u2019s Fables and other short poems<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/07\/letters-and-lettering\/\" target=\"_self\">Letters and Lettering<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/16\/studies-in-pen-art\/\" target=\"_self\">Studies in Pen Art<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/10\/flourishes\/\" target=\"_self\">Flourishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More decorated initials, these being from Early Woodcut Initials (1908), a collection by Oscar Jennings of ornamental letters from books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By way of contrast with yesterday&#8217;s examples, not all of these feature the religious or mythological figures one would expect, some show early mathematical and astronomical devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,10],"tags":[266,1489,2846,2957,1418],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-johann-theodor-de-bry","tag-joseph-balthazar-silvestre","tag-oscar-jennings","tag-paul-franck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2DK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}