Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta

by Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Book Overview

In 1561-62, Georg Bocskay, imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, inscribed the Mira calligraphiae monumenta as a testament to his preeminence among scribes. He assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historical scripts, which nearly thirty years later were further embellished by Joris Hoefnagel, Europe's last great manuscript illuminator. This book, now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, is reproduced here in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089236212X
• ISBN13: 9780892362127
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.3" x 7.6"