found: Text-- Buchstabe-- Bild, Studien zur historisierten Initiale im 8. und 9., c1998:p. 9 (initials that contain a text illustration)
found: AAT(Historiated initials, alt., Historiated initial; initials containing scenes or figures germane to the text)
found: Brown, M. Understanding illuminated manuscripts, c1994(historiated initial; a letter containing an identifiable scene or figures, sometimes relating to the text; a popular feature of medieval illumination)
found: Dict. of art, c1996:v. 15, p. 848 (historiated initials not only maintain a distinction between the letter and the scene represented within it, but also present an identifiable incident, usually narrated within or germane to the text that they introduce)
found: Web. 3(historiated: adorned with figures having significance rather than purely decorative elements; used orig. of the elaborately decorated initials of books and manuscripts)
notfound: McGraw-Hill art
