Letter V as Sixteenth-century medieval initial capital - stock illustration

In a written or published work, an initial capital (also referred to as a drop capital or simply an initial cap, initial, initcapital, initcap or init or a drop cap or drop) is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text.Original edition from my own archivesSource : St. Nicolas 1890