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The article points to several waves of Late Gothic historicism in art (especially in architecture) around 1400, during 1450–1460, and after 1500, placing emphasis on the parallelism of this phenomenon with historicism in epigraphy. In this respect, it is a more general question, one of its most significant manifestations being the time concordance of the appearance of a visual aspect of 12th-century Gothic architecture, i.e. expression of the ‘Jerusalemisation’ of Europe after the facilitation of extensive contacts with the Holy Land in 1099, and the Gothic miniscule that in fact imitates the Hebrew script. The connection of the Renaissance with the antique-style inscription (in the Czech lands from the late 15th century) is also evident. The article presents several Silesian, Bohemian, and Moravian examples of such analogies throughout the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century (Wrocław. Jindřichův Hradec, Znojmo). Furthermore, an issue of dating primitive folk inscriptions is discussed. During the analysis, the inscription’s context must also be taken into account, e.g. the appearance of the bearer – the architectural element or decoration accompanying the inscription – and alternatively other related circumstances, as exemplified by the inscription and polychrome in the Bohemian church in Klášterec nad Orlicí (perhaps from 1530–1540) and the wooden panel in the church in Dziesławice near Syców in Lower Silesia (from 1493).