Make Your Own Illuminations:
Initials For You To Color

Press a letter to see an inital cap for you to illuminate. Then print it out and color it. Have fun!

A

from a manuscript created circa 1120

B

from Bestiary of Guillaume Le Clerc, early 13th century

C

from Peter Lombard's "Sentences," late 12th century

D

from French Book of Hours, late 14th century

E

from Sacramentary of Gellone, Paris, 8th century

F

sketch from The Illuminated Alphabet, Noad & Seligman, 1994

G

from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1872

H

pierced initial cap from Gothic period

I

from Homer's Iliad, late 15th century

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