This style is usually called chancery. Might not be a digital version of this typeface. For substitutes available at Myfonts see http://www.myfonts.com/search/tag%3Achancery/fonts/
Don

I cannot find that 'font', but it is a chancery style. Some similar styles without the ornaments on the initials would be Ophelia, Augusta Cancellaresca and Bradley Chancery (all at MyFonts).

- Mike Yanega

A few more Agedage Cancelleresca http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/flat-it/agedage-cancelleresca/ Aphrodite http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typesenses/aphrodite-slim/ and http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typesenses/aphrodite-pro/ Apple Chancery [popular for wedding invitations] and similar http://www.identifont.com/similar?3IA as well as the Cancellaresca rag at Myfonts http://www.myfonts.com/search/Cancellaresca/fonts/
If you feel like browsing further just Google "fonts chancery" and scan through the images.
All these fonts and no exact match.
Don

I found this in a German book of Script types published in 1993. It is called Abel kursiv. If this is in digital form I have not found it by this name. The book lists Agfa as the source, but it's not in the 1999 Creative Alliance book.

- Mike Yanega

Luc Devrouye's designer page lists the designer of "Abel Cursive" as Bernie Abel and says it was a Compugraphic font in 1974. I think that means it was a film type. Apparently, not digitized.

- Mike Yanega

Abel Cursive is shown on this designer page on Luc's site. What a fantastic resource he is!

- Mike Yanega

I know that it was digitized as Abel Cursive Plain, Solid and Open Caps by Alan Prescott in 1996. Finding copies today? I had no luck.

Good find Mike Y! I wonder if this http://prescottdesignshop.com/ and http://prescottdesignshop.com/typography.html is the same Alan Prescott and if he can tell us anything about availability of the font?
Don