Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico2863] Historiated initial
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T65599]Initial N(Ach dem tod Josua) - Joshua and Caleb Carrying Grapes of Canaan. In Die gantze Bibel der vrsprünglichẽ Ebraischen vnd Griechischen waarheyt ..., Huldrych Zwingli (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1531 (Zürich, Grossmünster), fol. CXVIr ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T65608]Initial Z(Vr zeyt) - Ruth in the Field of Boaz. In Die gantze Bibel der vrsprünglichẽ Ebraischen vnd Griechischen waarheyt ..., Huldrych Zwingli (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1531 (Zürich, Grossmünster), fol. CXXIXr ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T65704]Initial N(Ach dem Tod Sauls) - Joshua and Caleb Carrying Grapes of Canaan. In Die gantze Bibel der vrsprünglichẽ Ebraischen vnd Griechischen waarheyt ..., Huldrych Zwingli (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1531 (Zürich, Grossmünster), fol. CXLVIIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T59417]Initial C(VM APPROPINquassent). In Johann Spangenberg, Postilla. Euangelia, & Epistolae, Qvae Dominicis & Festis diebus per totum Annum in Ecclesia proponuntur, Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1553 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB), p. 4 ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T57717]Initial D(As ist dz gesicht Abdia) - Passage Through the Red Sea. In Biblia, beider Allt unnd Newen Testamenten..., Johann Dietenberger (translator), Mainz: Peter Jordan (printer), Peter Quentel (publisher), before 27 June 1534 (Munich, BSB), fol. CCCCIXv ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T56953]Initial V(Nd der HERR) - Melchizedek's Offering. In Biblia, beider Allt unnd Newen Testamenten..., Johann Dietenberger (translator), Mainz: Peter Jordan (printer), Peter Quentel (publisher), before 27 June 1534 (Munich, BSB), fol. LXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T59810]Initial A(Hasia) - Temptation and Fall. In Biblia Das ist Die gantze Heylige Schrifft Teutsch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1560 - 1561 (Munich, BSB), fol. 205v ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T60917]Initial V(Nd der HERR) - Melchizedek's Offering. In Biblia, beider Allt unnd Newen Testamenten..., Johann Dietenberger (translator), Mainz: Peter Jordan (printer), Peter Quentel (publisher), before 27 June 1534 (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek), fol. LXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T61138]Initial S(Ihe mein freundin) - Josiah and the Book of the Law [upside down]. In Biblia, beider Allt unnd Newen Testamenten..., Johann Dietenberger (translator), Mainz: Peter Jordan (printer), Peter Quentel (publisher), before 27 June 1534 (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek), fol. CCXCIv ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, printing errorspaperbook decoration: illustration
[T60922]Initial D(As ist dz gesicht Abdia) - Passage Through the Red Sea. In Biblia, beider Allt unnd Newen Testamenten..., Johann Dietenberger (translator), Mainz: Peter Jordan (printer), Peter Quentel (publisher), before 27 June 1534 (Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek), fol. CCCCIXv ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T61573]Initial E(T APERTVM EST). In Rupert of Deutz, Rvperti Abbatis Monasterii Tvitiensis, E Regione Agrippinae Coloniae In Rheni Ripa Siti ... Commentariorum, in Apocalypsim Iohannis libri XII, Cologne: Franz Birckmann (printer), 1526 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. CXXIX ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwhite‑line woodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T61576]Initial E(T SVNT TESTI). In Rupert of Deutz, Rvperti Abbatis Monasterii Tvitiensis, E Regione Agrippinae Coloniae In Rheni Ripa Siti ... Commentariorum, in Apocalypsim Iohannis libri XII, Cologne: Franz Birckmann (printer), 1526 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. CXLIIII ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwhite‑line woodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T61580]Initial D(E HINC PER IMAGINES). In Rupert of Deutz, Rvperti Abbatis Monasterii Tvitiensis, E Regione Agrippinae Coloniae In Rheni Ripa Siti ... Commentariorum, in Apocalypsim Iohannis libri XII, Cologne: Franz Birckmann (printer), 1526 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. CLXXXV ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T61583]Initial G(AVDENDVM ET EXVLTANDVM). In Rupert of Deutz, Rvperti Abbatis Monasterii Tvitiensis, E Regione Agrippinae Coloniae In Rheni Ripa Siti ... Commentariorum, in Apocalypsim Iohannis libri XII, Cologne: Franz Birckmann (printer), 1526 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. CCV ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwhite‑line woodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30302]Initial O( Aller milester) - Agnus Dei. In Ortulus Anime Dises büchlin ein wurtzgart ist ..., Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger (printer), 1503 (Munich, BSB), fol. LXXXIXv ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T53857]Initial M(Odus est adiacens). In Peter of Spain, Textvs Svmmvlarvm Petri Hyspani ..., Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 1519 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A7v ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58710]Initial C(AROLVS) - Killing of Abel. In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB) ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58709]Initial M(OTV PROPRIO) - Moses Receiving the Tables of the Law from God. In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB) ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58707]Initial C(VM) - City landscape. In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB) ◼printing: impressionpage: initialgilding, woodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58712]Initial H(ENRY). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB) ◼printing: impressionpage: initialwoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration