Ornamental Alphabet, 16th century, "Henry the Eighth," from "The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval" (1849; 1914) (original) (raw)

• Title-page, The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval
• Twelfth-century alphabet from the Masarin Bible
• Sixteenth-century alphabet from Albrecht Dürer's Prayer Book
• Eighth- & Ninth-century Anglo-Saxon alphabets
• Alphabet from a Manuscript in the Library of Minerva, Rome
• Alphabet c. 1490 in the British Museum
• Ornamental Riband Alphabet from the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries
• Sixteenth-century ornamental alphabet labeled “Henry the Eighth”

References

Delamotte, F[reeman Gage]. The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval, from the Eighth Century . . . . (1849). London: Crosby, Lockwood, & Son, 1914. Internet Archive. Web. 29 July 2014.

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