Initial P in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire

Detail from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strasbourg by J.R.Grueninger. The coloured chapter initials were hand written after the page was printed.

An initial is a more largely set letter, often several lines comprehensive, with a decorating character at the beginning of a work, a chapter or a paragraph. Download high resolution version (1500x1271, 494 KB) A closeup of an illuminated letter in a Latin Bible of 1407AD on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Download high resolution version (1500x1271, 494 KB) A closeup of an illuminated letter in a Latin Bible of 1407AD on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Photograph of a page from a rare Blackletter bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. ... Photograph of a page from a rare Blackletter bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. ... Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... The holy Jewish scripture: The Torah. ... Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... Look up Letter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A letter is a written message from one party to another. ... Chapter has multiple meanings. ... In typography, a paragraph is a block of text. ...

In the early period of the printing, the typesetters released the necessary surface, so that the Initials (in a further work procedure) could be arranged by book painters or writers. Historical Initials was decorated frequently with ornamentations or motives, which refer to the action of the text. The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Printing is an industrial process for mass production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Movable metal type Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other media. ... Ornament is frequently used to denote: An element of decoration. ...

The word comes from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

See also typography, illuminated manuscript, incunabulum. Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ... In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ... A page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strasbourg by J.R. Grueninger. ...

Initials also refer to the initial letters of a name. For example, George Bernard Shaw was well-known by his initials GBS. A name is a label for a thing, person, place, product (as in a brand name) and even an idea or concept, normally used to distinguish one from another. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ...