Daniel Bellingradt on Nostr: Here is a small printed "s" waiting to become an illuminated initial in a print from ...

Here is a small printed "s" waiting to become an illuminated initial in a print from 1503. The small "s" indicates: please include a colored big "S" after the print run. The reason for this: early printed books in Europe, around 1500, kept this illuminating tradition from the manuscript age - the book makers imitated the layout rules of scribal handwriting for decades.
The images show an unfinished and finished initial of the same page from a different copy. #bookhistory for the win. #histodons