Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta

$85.00 at The Getty Museum.

A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel, Second Edition Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg Now back in print, “the ultimate booklover’s gift book” —Los Angeles TimesIn 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…