historiated initial

Japanese: historiated initial(英語表記)historiatedinitial
historiated initial

…The first type is the miniature, which corresponds to today's frontispiece. The second type is the historiated initial, which is an ornamental first letter of a sentence and includes people or animals. The third type is the marginal illustration, which is a picture drawn around the text. It does not necessarily follow the content of the text, but contains a fairly free motif. …

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Japanese:

…第1はミニアチュール(細密画)で,今日の口絵にあたる。第2はヒストリエーテッド・イニシャルhistoriated initialといわれるもので,文章の初めの文字が装飾化され,人や動物が描きこまれる。第3のマージナル・イラストレーション(余白装飾)は,テキストのまわりに描きこまれた絵で,必ずしもテキストの内容に沿っているわけではなく,かなり自由なモティーフが入っている。…

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