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Initial

In a written or published work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from Latin: initiālis, which means of the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height, and, in older books or manuscripts, may take the form of an inhabited or historiated…

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Types of initial

Opening quotation marks

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Initial

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples95
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Initial

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related to External links · 27
Initial → ArchitectureOrnamento Archived, Archived, Book Historian, Decoration, Early Modern100, Encyclopedia, Flickr, Glossary, Huntington LibraryHistoriated Initial, Iberian, Illuminated Manuscripts, Illumination, Initials, Irish, Letters, Making, Manuscript Studies, Medieval, Medieval Art, Ornaments
see also · 15
Initial → Abbreviation, Art, Calligraphy, EnglandInsular, Illuminated, Ireland, Irish, Medieval, Monastic, Motif, Painting, Picture, Spanish PhilippinesList, Type, Visual
related to history · 13
Initial → After, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Historiated, In, Insular, Italy, Later, Ottonian, Roman, Romanesque, Subsequently, The
related to Further reading · 11
Initial → Blandford Press, Decorative Alphabets, Dieter, England, Erhardt, Initials, ISBN, OCLC, Poole, Stiebner, Urban
related to Drop cap · 8
Initial → An, CSS, CSS-only, For, HTML, In, This, With
related to Historiated initial · 7
Initial → Both, Insular, Saint Petersburg Bede, Strictly, The, These, Vespasian Psalter
related to Types of initial · 5
Initial → In, Letters, Roman, The, They
related to Inhabited initial · 4
Initial → An, Figures, It, They
related to Opening quotation marks · 3
Initial → Style, The Chicago Manual, There
is a · 2
Initial → initial, letter at the beginning of a word

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initials text historiated letter may letters manuscripts insular inhabited art illuminated manuscript opening also paragraph first dolor ut dolore beginning

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Initialis aletter at the beginning of a word0.90text
Initialis ainitial0.90text
Initialrelated to Drop capWith0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capThis0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capIn0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capHTML0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capCSS0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capAn0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capCSS-only0.60section
Initialrelated to Drop capFor0.60section
Initialrelated to External linksTypolis0.60section
Initialrelated to External linksGlossary0.60section

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