Monogram

An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used In Art and Archealogy. · 1883 · p. 25

A combination of two or more letters into one design, illustrated especially in ecclesiastical decoration of the 14th and 15th centuries, . The abbreviation IHS is said to have been invented by St. Bernard i no of Siena about 1437. For Artists’ monograms, see Stell way, Heller, Brulliot ( Dictionaries of Monograms ).