Initials Eleven different large decorated initial letters occur a total of nineteen
times. Identical frames and similar flowers show that ten of the eleven are
related. Comprising the letters A, D, F, I, L, O, P, Q, S, and U, they are large
enough to offset seven lines of Swedenborg's normal type (size eleven over twelve).
The odd one out, another P, has a wilder leafy design, lacks a frame, and is
slightly smaller, offsetting six lines of text (Initial 10). Although they usually
occur right below headpieces as restatement that a major section of text is
beginning, initials occur twice without headpieces (the preface of Apocalypse
Revealed and the first page of text in True Christian Religion).3
Initials are the only category unique to one city: they appear in no works Swedenborg
published in London but in every work he published in Amsterdam.
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Initial 01: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
DL.3.
Initial 02: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
DL.5.
Initial 03: Amsterdam
Occurs three times.
SS.3; CJ.3; CL.253.
Initial 04: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
LI.3.
Initial 05: Amsterdam
Occurs twice.
FA.3; CL.3.
Initial 06: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
CJ.12.
Initial 07: Amsterdam
Occurs six times.
DW.3,25,48,87,114; AR.5.
Initial 08: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
DP.3.
Initial 09: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
AR.3.
Initial 10: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
BE.3.
Initial 11: Amsterdam
Occurs once.
TR.3.