6063A

Decorated Initial A

Artist: Workshops of Juan de León (active between 1545 and 1555), Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558), and Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572)
Title: Decorated Initial (White Roman A over botanical decorations)
Date: 1545
Medium: Woodcut (or woodcut standing-in for a lost woodblock). Measurements? Documented in the following works: Pedro Mexía, Historia Imperial y Cesárea[.] Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 — Hieronymo de Chaves, Tractado de la esphera que compuso […] Ioannes de Sacrobusto. Sevilla: Juan de León, 1545 — San Buenaventura, Vidas de San Francisco y Santa Clara. Sevilla: en casa de Juan Gutiérrez impressor de libros en la calde [sic] Genova, 1560. See also the A reproduced in Klaus Wagner, Martín de Montesdoca y su prensa, p. 167.
Photo Source: Universidad de Valladolid / UVaDOC || Universidad Complutense de Madrid / HathiTrust Digital Library || Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the image of the impression in 6063B.
Item: 6063A

Correspondences: Archive: 6063A/6063B; Archive: 6063A/6063B; Archive: 6063A/6063B; 6063A/6063B