Decorative initial
60 pictures of decorative initial from 53 books, published 1554–1919, chosen from 2,343,477 illustrations in public-domain books. Free to use for anything.
60 pictures of decorative initial from 53 books, published 1554–1919, chosen from 2,343,477 illustrations in public-domain books. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas [cartographic material] (1650)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-letheatredumonde00blae-240-214.webp)
![An illustration from Volume premier[-troisiesme] des Chroniques d'Enguerran de Monstrelet gentil-homme iadis demeurant a Cambray en Cambresis. : Contenans les cruelles guerres ciuilles entre les maisons d'Orleans & de Bourgongne, l'occupation de Paris & Normandie par les Anglois, l'expulsion d'iceux, & autres choses memorables aduenues de son temps en ce royaume, & paÿs estranges. Histoire de bel exemple & de grand fruict aux Francois, commenceant en l'an M. CCCC. où finist celle de Iean Froissart, & finissant en l'an M.CCCC.LXVII. peu outre le commencement de celle de Mess. Philippes de Commines. (1572)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-volumepremiertro23mons-77-56.webp)
![An illustration from XVIIme [i.e. dix-septième] siècle : lettres, sciences et arts, France, 1590-1700 (1882)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-xviimeiedixsepti00jaco-338-141.webp)
![An illustration from Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouuel atlas [cartographic material] (1650)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-letheatredumonde00blae-294-275.webp)
![An illustration from Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta summo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamque astrologiam institutens. Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Joannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, et alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur. rationibusq[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur .. (1585)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cosmographiainqv00baro-22-8.webp)
