On the verso of the fourth page begins the same Biblical alphabet as in the other volume, the first letter, A, representing Eve and the tempter with the Tree of Knowledge, the alphabet, the letters of which are used as illustrative cuts and not as initials, being continued one letter per page with about five lines of text underneath; B (Abraham), C (Jacob), D (David), E (Absalom), and so on. When the Biblical alphabet is finished, the Dance of Death letters take its place, two on a page with a _cul de lampe_ underneath the border, but no text. They are twenty-three in number, occupying twelve pages, the last being accompanied by the A (Eve and the Tree of Life) of the other series. Then come the remaining letters of the first alphabet, this time two by two, one under the other, without any text, but with a woodcut border. The last page but one has two little cuts of saints on each side, the last one having four still smaller on the recto which entirely fill it, but nothing on the verso. In the language of typography the town of Alcala de Henares was styled Complutum, and one of its chief printers was Arnaldus Guilelmus Brocart, who, before coming here, had been established at Pampeluna, where he printed, amongst others, liturgical works. The two large linear initials are taken from a book of this kind, the _Passionarium cum Lamentationibus Jeremie atque Benedictione cerei Paschalis_, published in 1516. They are the only letters of the size in the volume, the P recurring thrice. There are some smaller initials in the same style, but not of much interest, besides a number of the pen-letters with more or less grotesque profiles in the style, although coarser, of the alphabet of Vérard. CHAPTER XIV EARLY DUTCH INITIALS The early typography of the Low Countries has been made the subject of a most interesting monograph by J. W. Holtrop, chief librarian at the Hague, _Monuments Typographiques des Pays-Bas au Quinzième Siècle_, and it is from this work that we have reproduced most of the initials in this section. The first specimen given by Holtrop is the G of the _Fasciculus Temporum_, printed at Utrecht by J. Veldener in 1480--an immense initial more than eight centimetres square. The page is surrounded by a folio-floral border in the same style. It has also been reproduced by Bodemann. In the _Summa Experimentorum sive Thesaurus Pauperum_ of Thierry Martens, who printed at Alost and afterwards at Antwerp, is the large A with a profile. Passing over the initials of Ludovicus de Ravescot of Louvain, the next printer mentioned by Holtrop is G. Leeu of Gouda, who published in 1481 a _Dyalogus Creaturarum_ with illustrative cuts, a very black S, not unlike the large one reproduced, and an ornamental border.