Kartiny i kompozit︠s︡īi, skrytyi︠a︡ v zaglavnykh bukvakh drevnikh russkikh rukopiseĭ
A Russian-language study of pictures and compositions hidden in the initial letters of old Russian manuscripts, written by art critic Vladimir Stasov and published in Saint Petersburg in 1884 by the Society of Lovers of Ancient Literature for scholars and collectors of manuscript illumination. The first picture shows a row of richly coloured decorated capitals with human figures, animals and foliage woven into their letter forms, while the second is a bold monochrome letter A set inside a stippled ring and cross-hatched frame, showing how a designer can fuse a letterform with geometric shapes and dotted texture.
