{"id":7350,"date":"2010-06-23T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2010-10-14T16:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:33:25","slug":"the-book-of-ornamental-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/23\/the-book-of-ornamental-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Ornamental Alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/bookofornamental00delarich\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ornamental.jpg\" alt=\"ornamental.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another short but sweet Internet Archive upload, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/bookofornamental00delarich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Book of Ornamental Alphabets<\/em><\/a> (1914) by Freeman Delamotte. The designs are a variety of capitals and alphabets from medieval and later manuscripts. At least one page of this I recognise from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepinpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pepin Press<\/a> collection of similar ornamental types.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<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>Another short but sweet Internet Archive upload, The Book of Ornamental Alphabets (1914) by Freeman Delamotte. The designs are a variety of capitals and alphabets from medieval and later manuscripts. At least one page of this I recognise from a Pepin Press collection of similar ornamental types. Previously on { feuilleton } \u2022 Paul Franck\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/23\/the-book-of-ornamental-alphabets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book of Ornamental Alphabets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[266,1439,1418],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-freeman-delamotte","tag-paul-franck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","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=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}