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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A SixteenthCentury Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Ho,Used
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Now back in print, the ultimate booklovers gift bookLos Angeles TimesIn 156162 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, Ferdinands grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europes last great manuscript illuminator, Joris Hoefnagel (15421600), to embellish the work. The resulting book is at once a treasury of extraordinary beauty and a landmark in the cultural debate between word and image.Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historical scripts for a work that summarized all that had been learned about writing to datea testament to the universal power of the written word. Hoefnagel, desiring to prove the superiority of his art over Bocskays words, employed every resource of illusionism, color, and form to devise all manner of brilliant grotesques, from flowers, fruit, insects, and animals to monsters and masks.Unavailable for nearly a decade, this gorgeous volume features over 180 color illustrations, as well as scholarly commentary and biographies of both artists, to inspire scholars, bibliophiles, graphic designers, typographers, and calligraphers.
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