6071B

Decorated Initials

Artist: Workshops of Pedro Ocharte and Antonio Ricardo
Title: Decorated Initials (White uncial initials designed in a floral style)
Date: 1578-1584
Medium: Woodcut. Measurements? Printed in the following works: Juan de Cordoba, Vocabulario en lengua çapoteca[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Charte and Antonio Ricardo, 1578 [Letter Y (shown here)] — Doctrina Christiana[.] Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1584 [Letter L (shown here)].
Location: Antiguas Imprentas de Pedro Ocharte (Ciudad de México) and Antonio Ricardo (Ciudad de Lima).
Photo Source: John Carter Brown Library / Internet Archive || Mori 2013a.
Correspondence Credit: These initials were traced to Cromberger in Rodríguez-Buckingham 1985, 47-48. Cromberger, however, is only the indirect source therof. Ocharte and Ricardo got them from Juan Varela de Salamanca (cf. 6071A).
Item: 6071B

Correspondences: Archive: 6071A/6071B; Archive: 6071A/6071B; Archive: 6071A/6071B