A unique achievement in the history of manuscript illumination, the Model Book of Calligraphy was produced in Vienna, Austria, in the second part of the sixteenth century. The volume, made up of 123 parchment folios and 4 paper folios, is the result of a rare collaboration between a scribe and a painter, who penned and illuminated the manuscript nearly thirty
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The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596): A Stunningly Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Created over Three Decades
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Now back in print, the ultimate booklover's gift book--Los Angeles Times In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thirty years later, Ferdinand's grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europe's last great manuscript illuminator, Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), to embellish the work.
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel [Book]
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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta. From the Library of the Emperor Rudolf II, a complete facsimile of Europe's last great illuminated manuscript, inscribed by Georg Bocskay and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel. With 151 colour