This collection of Illuminated Manuscripts Capital Initials cover the period of the High Renaissance, late 1400s and the 1500s, in some of them same letter was missing (some J and w) I reconstructed them with respect of the Renaissance artist stile. In some of the stiles, specifically the ones that evoke the Roman alphabet, the U and the V are the same: in those cases I duplicated the file and named them U and V to avoid the nuisance of looking for a letter and not finding it. It is regrettable that those books and manuscripts sitting in many libraries and probably acquired trough donations, public funds and fundraisings are kept away from the public. Most of the time the few low-resolution images available are protected with an unrealistic "copyright" notice. Many of those illuminated letters reach us today not trough the libraries that host those precious books but trough publications from the period that goes from the Victorian to the 1920s. Some of my sources are: Schriften Atlas by Ludvig Petzendorfer 1889 Alphabet Album by J. B. Silvestre 1843-1844 Decorative Ornaments and Alphabets of the Renaissance by Henry Lewis Johnson.
No special skill is required to use the images as clip art in word processing documents, to create letters, cards, invitations, posters, etc.
Vector Graphics
Each decorative image and element is meticulously hand-drawn. Many advanced designers will find our vector file versions with the following desirable feature: preserved, original hierarchies and groupings to facilitate modifications and enable the extraction of unique elements. Though resolution-independent vector formats insure high-quality reproduction at any size and allow complete latitude for pre-production modifications, our CD collections also include common pixel-based file formats of each graphic and a vector format supported by Office applications for desktop publication. |
