Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta : A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel
Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992.
Hardcover.
Third printing of the 1992 edition.
A facsimile reprint of Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy), an exquisite 16th century manuscript added to the J. Paul Getty collection in 1986. The manuscript was produced in 1561-1562 by master calligrapher Georg Bocskay, imperial secretary to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, as a demonstration of his artistry. Thirty years later, Ferdinand’s grandson, Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europe’s last great manuscript painter, Joris Hoefnagel, to illuminate the work. Bocskay had compiled a selection of materials for his work that summarized all that had been learned about writing to date. Hoefnagel embellished the written words with an array of flowers, fruit, insects, animals, and grotesques. The result, and this facsimile, is a dazzling production. The facsimile is further illuminated with scholarly commentary and biographies of both artists.
Item #901495ISBN: 089236212X
5-1/8 x 7-1/4”, brown cloth, x, 410pp, fully illustrated featuring over 180 color illustrations.
Very fine in publisher’s slip-case.
Price: $150.00