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6065A

Decorated Initials

Decorated Initials

6065A
Artist
Workshops of ¿Matthias Crom (active between 1536 and 1546)?, Richard Grafton (ca.1506/7 – 1573), and Edward Whitechurch (active between 1537 and 1552; d. 1561)
Title
Decorated Initials
Date
1537-1552
Medium
Woodcut. 17mm x 17mm. Documented in the following works: The Matthew Bible. Antwerp: ¿Matthias Crom? for Richard Grafton and Edward Whitechurch, 1537 [Letters B, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, P, Q, R, V (all thirteen shown here)] — The New Testament[.] Translated by William Tyndale and annotated by Richard Jugge. London: Rycharde Jugge, 1522 [Letters A (shown here), T] — Church of England, The Book of Common Prayer. London: Edward Whitechurch, 1552 [Letters B, C (shown here), D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, P, R, T (shown here), V].
Photo Source
Bibles Online || Boston Public Library / Internet Archive. Not reproduced at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impressions in 6065B.
Note
Copies of these letters were used in 1571 at the Officina Plantiniana (cf. Harvard 1974, series 49)
Item
6065A
Correspondences
Archive: 6065A/6065B
Archive: 6065A/6065B
Archive: 6065A/6065B
Archive: 6065A/6065B
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